Spickard-Keeler Ancestors'
Revolutionary War Service
Listed as a Revolutionary War soldier
source: Ruth Elliot Wendt's DAR application
Listed as a Revolutionary War soldier.
source: Carol Heckman: Chronicles of the Ewarts, p. 295
Listed as a Revolutionary War soldier.
Fought at Lexington and Concord.
source: Clarke, Louise Brownell, The Greene's of Rhode Island, p. 565
Served in the army from Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. He was in the Pennsylvania Militia, having been in a draft from Westmoreland County in April or May of 1778...John's discharge came near the close of December 1778 or in early January of 1779." He received a pension (S8296) in Champaign Co., Ohio, filed 5 April 1834. He is listed in the DAR Patriot Index, Vol II, p. 54
source: Carol Dawson: Dawsons in the Revolutionary War, p.372
Listed as a Revolutionary War soldier. Ohio Pension file #10734.
source: Dennis Deeds: "Deeds World" Website
Charles Frederick Beraud de Sanno (1746- bef. 1805)
Family tradition says that he was an aide to Lafayette who stayed in America after the Revolution. Research by F.W. Stowe found only one possibility: an unnamed aide who was possibly the military-trained lesser noble Charles Beraud, whose family had owned the castle at Sannois (outside of Paris) until the 1750s. Charles disappeared from the records in the late 1760s, and "Frederick de Sanno" (also called Gottleib Friederich in his marriage record) appeared in Pennsylvania in 1779, marrying into a local German family.
The tradition of a French noble ancestor apparently survived in all branches of the family, some of which became "Sanno" and some of which remained "de Sanno". Stowe thought the connection likely, but he was paid for results, which only had good documentation with "Gottlieb's" marriage. Records become much better beginning with his sons Frederick de Sanno and George Michael Sanno.
source: F.W. Stowe manuscripts, available through LDS Family History Library
Elijah served in the Revolutionary War for eight months from May 1775 in Capt. Asa Barns' Company, Col. Woodbridge's Regiment of Massachusetts state troops; for two months from September 1776 in White Plains in Capt. Barns' Company, Col. Simonds' Regiment, and for eight days as a sergeant in October 1780 in Capt. David Wheeler's Company, Col. Simonds' Regiment, which marched from Lanesborough to Manchester. He applied for a pension on 24 July, 1832 from Middlebury, VT. He received $33.33 a year (Pension file S23288).
source: Wesley B. Keeler: Keeler Family (1985), p89.
Listed as Revolutionary War soldier.
source: History of Madison County, Ohio
George enlisted in 1776 and served as a private in the 8th Virginia Regiment under Capt. Richard Campbell and Colonels Muhlenberg and A. Bowman. He was engaged in the battles of Brandywine, fought on Brandywine Creek at Chad's Ford, PA on 11 Sept., 1777, and Germantown on 4 Oct. 1777. He was discharged at Valley Forge, PA, on 9 Feb. 1781.
source: Frank Fisk: Spickard and Related Families (1980) p3.
Julius Spickard (c. 1732-1778)
Julius's war service is mentioned in the following record from Augusta Co., VA:
"Relief was given, Elizabeth Spickard, wife of Julius Spickard and mother of George Spickard, both soldiers." See the page of information on Early Spickards.
source: Frank Fisk: Spickard and Related Families (1980), p3.
Private, Massachusetts Militia.
source: DAR Patriot Index, Centenniel Edition