Display Patriot - P-157187 - Benjamin FELL

Benjamin FELL

SAR Patriot #: P-157187

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
 

State of Service: PA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Civil Service / Private
DAR #: A038782

Birth: 11 Apr 1739 Buckingham / Bucks / PA
Death: 04 Apr 1811 Rostraver / Westmoreland / PA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Member of Council of General Assembly; Coroner
  2. Manufacturer of shoes for George Washington's soldiers at Valley Forge
  3. Private, Capt William McCalla's Company of Associators, Militia, Plumstead Twp, Bucks Co, PA, 21 Aug 1775

Additional References:
  1. Pennsylvania Archives,
    • Second Series, Volume 3, pg 640
    • Second Series, Vol 14, pg 162
  2. History of Westmoreland County PA, George Dallas Albert, 1882; pg 567-568;
  3. History of Bucks County PA, JH Battle, 1887, pg 705
  4. Fell Family in America, pg 40-41
  5. Library Record in Doystown/Bucks/PA 1891 stating Benjamin Fell made shoes for George Washington's soldiers

Spouse: Rebecca Casner
Children: Rebecca/John;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1958-03-18 PA Unassigned Hobart McKinley Birmingham (83232) Rebecca   
1960-04-29 WV Unassigned Junius Kimmel Musser (84992) Peter   
1963-08-08 WV Unassigned Jackson Kimmel Randolph (88050) Peter   
1971-03-31 RI Unassigned David Stewart Kennedy (101541) Rebecca   
1974-04-18 PA Unassigned Francis A Fell (106544) Peter   
1987-09-30 VA 224241 Andrew Harvey McLeod (130014) Rebecca   
2000-05-11 OH 6365 Jack Donald Connell (153910) John   
2013-03-28 AZ 52338 Alan Douglass Fitch Jr. (178362) Rebecca   
2020-03-06 WA 90343 Jeffrey Caldwell Lightburn (166190) Peter   
Location:
Fellsburg / Westmoreland / PA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:

Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:



Send a biographical sketch of your patriot!

Patriot biographies must be the original work of the author, and work submitted must not belong to another person or group, in observance with copyright law. Patriot biographies are to be written in complete sentences, follow the established rules of grammar, syntax and punctuation, be free of typographical errors, and follow a narrative format. The narrative should unfold in a logical manner (e.g. the narrative does not jump from time period to time period) or have repeated digressions, or tell the history of the patriot's line from the patriot ancestor to the author. The thinking here is that this is a patriot biography, not a lineage report or a kinship determination project or other report published in a genealogy journal. The biography should discuss the qualifying service (military, patriotic, civil) of the patriot ancestor, where the service was rendered, whether this was a specific state or Continental service, as well as significant events (as determined by the author) of the patriot's life. This is the entire purpose of a patriot's biography.

Additional guidelines around the Biography writeup can be found here:

Send your submission1, in a Microsoft Word compatible format, to patriotbios@sar.org for inclusion in this space


1Upon submission of a patriot biography, the patriot biography becomes the property of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and may be edited to conform to the patriot biography submission standards.


© 2025 - National Society of the American Revolution (NSSAR)