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25 Revolutionary War Ancestors of Sarah Palin
suite101.com ^ | Jun 26, 2009 | Rosemary E. Bachelor

Posted on 10/02/2010 3:39:37 PM PDT by epithermal

Sarah Palin has at least 25 ancestors who served in the American Revolution. Are any of them shared? If so, descendants can join the DAR and other lineage societies.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: genealogy; palin; sowhat
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To: NavyCanDo

That is interesting. Some of the gravestones in my family’s cemetery are so covered with algae and worn that you can barely make them out.


21 posted on 10/02/2010 5:10:36 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I found several of my ancestors in the pension rolls. They were from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Something really interesting is several of them mentioned among their military actions, “The Florida Campaign”, yet I have never heard of any actions in Florida during the Revolution.


22 posted on 10/02/2010 5:14:19 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: NonValueAdded

can you give more info on this/ I post on other boards and would love to share that?


23 posted on 10/02/2010 5:14:41 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: epithermal

I don’t believe it is a “so what”. I think it shows that someone cares enough about themselves and their family’s contributions to our country. Just the fact you spent time to look it up says a lot. I never have. The first person carrying my family name came in 1790, but I never thought to look how I was link to the revolution through marriages.


24 posted on 10/02/2010 5:24:29 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: GlockThe Vote
Here it is in the NYT of all places: Nation’s Many Faces in Extended First Family, 9th paragraph
25 posted on 10/02/2010 5:41:27 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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To: moneypenny

Check out the links in #12


26 posted on 10/02/2010 5:41:44 PM PDT by IYellAtMyTV (Workday Forecast--Increasing pressure towards afternoon. Rum likely by evening.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Thanks. Sarah and or christie are the only ones with guts enough to take on the communists. The rest are patsies.


27 posted on 10/02/2010 5:50:23 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: castlegreyskull

Right, I would say it should be a source of personal pride, not necessarily something to boast about publicly. There are many families who have no connection to the Rev. War, but I’ll bet many have members who fought and died in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc., and I am in awe of all of them.

I have spent a lot of time doing my family genealogy which my mother started. When she would share information about it when I was younger I would just nod my head and half listen. Then I started trying to catalog what she did before she dies and I caught the bug. It is not so much linking the family together, but putting them in the framework of history and the growth of the USA. It fascinates me how historical events shaped my family and this nation.


28 posted on 10/02/2010 5:54:55 PM PDT by epithermal
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To: castlegreyskull

Would an Arab sheik and Idi Amin count?


29 posted on 10/02/2010 6:29:54 PM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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To: epithermal

Genealogy is all based on the dubious assumption that over hundreds of years not one of the wives “jumped the fence.”

Statistically speaking, that is highly unlikely.


30 posted on 10/02/2010 6:42:04 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: epithermal

Genealogy is all based on the dubious assumption that over hundreds of years not one of the wives “jumped the fence.”

Statistically speaking, that is highly unlikely.


31 posted on 10/02/2010 6:42:08 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Wives were a lot truer than most think. I noticed a while back that several members of my Mothers Clan had some kind of DNA tests done which trace ancestry back through the male lineage only.

I remember thinking that if any of the Fathers were not really the Father then the tests would not agree with the genealogical data. It turned out that they all were related exactly how they thought they were.


32 posted on 10/02/2010 6:47:08 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: epithermal

It doesn’t mean a whole lot but I think it’s a bit interesting that Sarah Palin is my 8th cousin (3 times removed) and George W. Bush is my 9th cousin (2 times removed). Two of my 4th Great Grandfathers served in the Revolution....Boyce Kimball who was in the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment and Peter Wagner who was a Lt Col in the Tryon NY Militia and who survived the Battle of Oriskany NY.


33 posted on 10/02/2010 6:59:26 PM PDT by XRdsRev (New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
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To: yarddog

I agree in general. But tracing one’s ancestry back many hundreds of years thru the male line has some fairly obvious pitfalls. The exponential increase of number of wives with each generation makes it likely that at some point one of those children is not the child of the wife’s husband.

There are numerous cases in European royal history where it was pretty obvious to all concerned that the King was not the bio-dad of the crown prince. Luckily for the already sufficiently screwed up genetics of the European royals.


34 posted on 10/02/2010 7:48:09 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: NonValueAdded

I hope Obama doesn’t join the SAR. He may be eligible on the basis of his ancestry, but he doesn’t share the values of the organization (respect for our Constitutional system of government and for our patriot ancestors who gave it to us). The fact that the men who played political roles in the American Revolution were all white (although some of the soldiers were black), and that the great majority of present-day members of the SAR are white, are probably sufficient reasons for him not to be interested in joining.


35 posted on 10/02/2010 7:48:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: yarddog

According to medieval Scottish genealogies, the McDonalds, McDougalls, and McAllisters are all descended from Somerled. Someone a few years ago got the current heads of Clan Donald, Clan Dougall, and Clan Allister (maybe spelled a little differently) to take a DNA test for the Y-chromosome and they agreed to—it confirmed the genealogical sources. If anywhere along the lines of descent a boy had not been the son of his putative father (his mother’s husband) the DNA would not have matched.


36 posted on 10/02/2010 7:54:11 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I am a DAR member. I have 14 ancestors who served in the Rev War. They were from VA and MD.


37 posted on 10/02/2010 7:55:17 PM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Another wrinkle in the stew is age. You may have had ancestors living here at the right time, but unless they were the right age to serve, it doesn’t count.

My fourth great grandfather was a dragoon and fought at King's Mountain and Guilford Courthouse. His father, my fifth great, provided aid, materiel, horses and muskets. His youngest brother and my fifth great uncle, 14 at the time, was a "teamster," meaning he drove supply wagons. They were neighbors of Colonel Joseph Winston and served under him. Any descendant of the three would be eligible to the DAR or SAR, provided descent can be proved.

38 posted on 10/02/2010 7:57:18 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: XRdsRev

Well aren’t you the fortunate one, I’ve got Jimmah as a distant cousin, lol. There are Carter men where I grew up who look a lot like him, going back to whomever, Robert “King” Carter I suppose.


39 posted on 10/02/2010 8:11:59 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Verginius Rufus
Did you know his buddy Gates was a member? Several blacks played important parts in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, both slaves and free men.

Gates is also undertaking a joint project with SAR to identify other descendants of the approximately 5,000 African Americans who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
As you say, if their descendants share the common goals of the SAR, then I would welcome them as my compatriots; Obama not so much.
40 posted on 10/02/2010 8:17:32 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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