The following is a roster of early DAR members from a book about the history of the DAR in New York State. This section was dependent on the response of the individual chapters, and apparently none of the Montgomery County chapters responded, as I only found Herkimer County chapters represented. DAR "ROSTER OF REAL DAUGHTERS"For Herkimer County Chapters"So let us turn now and then to the past and live it over, that we may see the daring and faith of men and women real and alive as we who made this land and us." - Oppenheim. Source: Extracted from "History of New York State Conference Daughters of the American Revolution Its Officers and Chapters with National Officers from New York and Roster of Real Daughters," Compiled by (Mrs. Frederick) Florence Skidmore Brown Menges, State Historian, and Mrs. Charles White Nash, State Regent, 1927. Real Daughters of the State of New York
43141 - Mrs. Mary Adle Davis (b. 1809, d. 1904)
21165 - Mrs. Angelina Bensley Ford (b. 1819; d. ?)
17716 - Mrs. Elizabeth Petry Gray (b. 1805; d.1898).
28667 - Mrs. Sarah Jane Warren Hamlin (b. 1819; d. 1901)
25398 - Mrs. Anna Taeger Moyer (b. 1812; d. ?) 30020 - Mrs. Samantha Stanton Nellis (b. 1810; d. 1915). ..Astenrogen Chapter, Little Falls. ..Wife of John Dietz Nellis; daughter of Elijah Stanton (1754-1841) and Lucy Goodell Stanton. ..Elijah Stanton served as private in Washington's Guard; imprisoned on ship "Jersey"; pensioner.
29161 - Mrs. Phoebe Wooley Palmeter (b. 1832; d. ?)
28669 - Mrs. Esther A. Shepardson (b. 1836; d. 1921)
30065 - Mrs. Sarah M. L. Stevens (b. 1819; d. 1907).
28195 - Mrs. Adeline Jones Whitney (b. 1800; d. 1900).
28670 - Miss Eliza Works (b. 1794; d. 1899) |
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