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.
Author: James English Vaughn Jr.
John Self was born 04 March 1759 in Westmoreland Co., Virginia, and he died in 1836 in Frederick Co., Virginia. John Self married Sarah Harris on 06 Sept 1779 in Richmond, Virginia. Sarah Harris was born 11 Dec 1761 in Richmond, Co., Virginia, and she died in 1836 at Warren Co., Virginia. John and Sarah had a daughter, Mary Self, who was born 12 Feb 1781 in St. Stephen’s Parish, Virginia. Mary Self died in Norwich, Ohio on 28 Jul 1874. John Self served as an Ensign (“2nd Lieutenant”) in Captain George Mengie’s Company of the Northumberland County, Virginia Militia, and he is listed as the Daughters of the American Revolution Ancestor #101702.
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.