My Revolutionary War Ancestors

       "The time is now near at hand which must probably
     determine whether Americans.....

are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human effort will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."

----- George Washington, speaking to his troops, the Continental Army,  before the Battle of Long Island

William Carroll, born 1755, County Cork, Ireland; Private, 1782, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia; married Phoebe Wortman; died 1824, Allegany Co., New York. Father of Jane Carroll Morley.

Stephen Dolph, born 1765, Stamford, Connecticut;  Private, 1780-1782, under Col. Huntington, Connecticut; married Eunice Lindsey(Linley); died 1824, Clark Co., Indiana. Grandfather of Allen Dolph,Civil War soldier-12th Michigan Infantry, who was father of Mary Ellen Dolph Wheaton.

William TRIPLETT, born 1719, King George County, Virginia; Ensign, Grayson's Reg. Nov. 1, 1777; Lieut. May 20, 1778; Regimental Paymaster Jan. 10, 1779; trans. to Gist's Reg. Apr. 22, 1779; retired Jan. 1, 1781. Awarded 2,666 acres.Married to Mary Ann "Annie" Miller. Grandfather of Melinda Genn Glover, who was mother of Celia Glover Morley.