James Due/Dew (1758-1832) was as a soldier in the Maryland Continental Army from 1778-1783. He enlisted in the 5th Maryland Regiment from Queen Anne's County Maryland, later in life lived in Caroline County. During his service in the war for independence, he participated in many skirmishes, including at Elizabethtown (likely, the raid by British Lt. Col Abraham Bushkirk at Elizabethtown, New Jersey), after which he was taken prisoner for 11 months. He later fought at the siege at Yorktown, Virginia before being discharged from the Army at Annapolis Maryland. For his service, his pension application, S34771, was approved. He is listed in the Daughters of the American Revolution’s "Forgotten Patriots" research guide. He is documented in our registry as the 4th great-grandfather of SOFAFEA's Auditor General Dean Henry and is the 5th great-grandfather of SOFAFEA's  Vice President of the South-Central District Stephani Miller.

John Durham, Sr. was born circa 1720 and died circa 13 May 1788 at Little Creek Hundred, Kent County, Delaware.  A landowner in the area, he was part of the mixed-blood community in central Delaware which eventually became known as “the Delaware Moors.”  In 1781 through his service and the contribution of donated grain for the military (“for the use of the continent”) during the Revolutionary War. He is the 7^th-great-grandfather of SOFAFEA member John C. Carter who is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Tobias Hill was born November 18, 1743, to Sandusky and Margaret Hill in rural Georgetown, Maine. He was a Private in Captain Benjamin Lemont’s company, Colonel John Allen’s Maine regiment. He emerged from the Revolutionary War free to purchase forty acres of land in East Brunswick, Maine for "forty-two Pounds eight shillings" from William Low on the “Thirtieth day of March & the Fifth year of American Independence 1781.” Toby became a Yeoman. Married in 1778, he moved there with his wife Jemima Griffin and three children: Mehitable, Margaret, and Sandy. After Jemima’s death, Tobias married a second time, in 1808, to Jennie Deshern (Dashiell) and had a son, Tobias Jr. The Tobias Hill Homestead was on the Old Bath Road, an early Bath-Brunswick thoroughfare, and in Price and Talbot’s Maine’s Visible Black History: The First Chronicle of Its People (2006), remarks that the property was so prominent it overlooked the Androscoggin River, that the area is called Toby’s Shore. Tobias Hill wore many hats during his lifetime. He was a military man, a farmer, a mariner, an entrepreneur who owned a farm stand on his property where he sold 'bayberries'. Bayberries during those times were extremely important in helping to make candles last longer and not burn out so quickly. Furthermore, he was an expert Hog Butcher, sadly, that service would lead to his demise. He was bitten by a hog and died of lockjaw. Tobias Hill is the 3rd great-grandfather of SOFAFEA's Secretary General L Jackie Long who is also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Three men of the same family are awarded the Presidential Medal. 

Cuffee (Clapp) Grandison (ABT 1742-1832) was enslaved and mustered on March 1, 1777, by Daniel Souter, as a private in Captain Newcomb’s Massachusetts Independent Company in Hull, He was “stationed at the Garnet for the defense of Plymouth Harbor “to protect the defenses of the town of Boston” from an anticipated English naval invasion. After the war, upon manumission the family bravely changed their enslaved surname from Clapp to Grandison. Cuffee’s two sons also enlisted in the Continental Army and became war heroes.

The sons Charles (Clapp) Grandison and Simeon (Clapp) Grandison enlisted in the 11^th Massachusetts Regiment, under the command of Colonel Ebenezer Francis, where they were at the siege of Fort Ticonderoga. As part of the heroic rearguard during the evacuation, they were present when Colonel Francis was killed at the Battle on Monument Hill at Hubbardton. Charles and Simeon were then transferred to the iconic regiment commonly known as the Vermont Green Mountain Boys under the command of Colonel Seth Warner where they were recognized for their involvement during the successful Saratoga Campaign at the Battle of Bennington. Afterwards they along with Colonel Warner were prisoners of war for eighteen months. These brave men are documented in our registry as the 6th great-grandfather of our Treasurer General Douglas Cornwall and SOFAFEA member Harold R. Cornwall and is the 7th great-grandfather of our SOFAFEA member Quincy J. Cornwall.