Display Patriot - P-127529 - Samuel CALLENDER

Samuel CALLENDER

SAR Patriot #: P-127529

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State of Service: PA/VA      Qualifying Service: Sergeant
DAR #: A018411

Birth: 15 Jan 1756 Blakely / / PA
Death: 12 Mar 1830 Green Grove / / PA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Also, Pvt Capt John Hays, Col Thomas Lewis, 9th Regt
  2. Sgt., Capt John Heard, Col Stephen Moylan
  3. Sgt., George Washington's body guard
  4. Enlisted in 1776. Served 1 year, 10 months in VA
  5. Served 2 years, 10 months in PA

Additional References:
  1. Pension Number: *S40814
  2. PA Arch, 2nd Ser, Vol 13, pg 30
  3. Abstracts of Rev War Pension files, 12th Anniv. Cumulative Roster: Patriots of Valley Forge
  4. Patriot Index, Vol 1, pg 110

Spouse: Martha Slosson/Slawson
Children: Sarah/Sally/Sara; Elizabeth; Samuel; Stephen; Nathan;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1963-03-26 NM Unassigned Charles C Campbell Jr (89901) Samuel   
1964-10-23 NY Unassigned Stephen J Dibble (91925)   
1968-11-21 PA Unassigned Paul Gordon Guest (97980) Samuel   
1970-02-17 NY Unassigned Lynn Stanley Dibble (99876) Stephen   
1977-12-12 VA Unassigned Harry W Wells (113420) Nathan   
1984-12-12 PA Unassigned James Donald Sykes (125014) Sarah   
1988-05-06 NH 223119 James Roy Jones (131149) Sarah   
1988-09-15 PA 221952 James Donald Sykes II (131835) Sarah   
1990-01-09 PA 219090 Bruce Billy Brown (134074) Samuel   
1991-10-22 PA 214329 David Wayne London (137817) Sarah   
1992-12-09 FL 211824 Gordon Kenneth Brown (139845) Samuel   
1996-03-22 FL 204225 Steven Francis Brown (146162) Samuel   
2002-10-03 PA 14496 Bruce Winslow Smith Jr. (159167) Sally/Sarah   
2020-05-22 DE 90654 Dennis Paul Rhodes (197352) Stephen   
Burial:
Scott Valley Cemetery (C-0375372)
Location:
Montdale / Lackawanna / PA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
46306
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
5391008
Marker Type:
DAR
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

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Author: Bruce Winslow Smith, Jr
Samuel Callender was born 15 Jan 1756 at Natural Bridge, Rockbridge County, Virginia.

At the start of the Revolutionary war, he enlisted at 21 years of age from Loudon County as a Corporal in Captain John Hay's Company of Foot, 9th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Mathews. His name appears on the muster rolls from the period from November 1776 to October 1777. The records also show that he served as Corporal and Sergeant in Captain William Henderson's Company of Colonel Daniel Morgan's Rifle Battalion Continental troops. His name appears upon the rolls from July 1777 to December 1777. At Valley Forge he served as one of 200 of General Washington’s Life Guards.

His own statement reads: "Enlisted in 1776 for a term of two years in the standing army and in the Ninth Virginia Regiment commanded by George Mathews, colonel in Captain John Hay's Company in 1777." He also stated that he was at the taking of Burgoyne after two severe battles at Saratoga, N. Y. and that in November they marched back to Whitemarsh Hill where they joined Washington's Army at Valley Forge. While in the Valley Forge encampment he was one of 200 Washington’s Life Guards. All of which we at least six feet tall. He re-enlisted under Major Washington into Colonel Stephen Millen's Regiment, in Captain Heards Company of Light Dragoon through 1778. He fought at the Battle of Monmouth, and other parts of the New Jersey campaign till completion of his enlistment.

After the war he married Martha Slosson and bore seven children, three boys and four girls. The sons are Samuel, Nathan, and Stephen. The daughters are Sally, Betsey, Rhoda, and Mary or Polly.

He died 12 Mar 1820 in Green Grove PA. Samuel and Martha were first buried in the Callender Burial ground, Blakely, PA. His family moved his and his wife’s grave to Scott Valley Cemetery, Montdale, Lackawanna County, PA where a monument was dedicated 28 Sept 1889.

His name is enshrined at Valley Forge upon a bronze plaque along with other heroes. One finds it at the left of the entrance into the reception room in the base of the Washington Memorial Bell Tower at the Washington Chapel built by the DAR.

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