My cousin, Hank, who did yDNA testing for me many years ago for our mutual Sammons line, sent me a text today asking for information and suggesting he has a friend who wants to prove Revolutionary service if it exists for our line. First I spiffed up my Ancestry tree a little bit and then sent a link to Hank. Then I decided to address this question since I am spending crazy amounts of time proving other people's patriots.
The Roland Salmons who is our ancestor was born in 1750 and died in 1819, so he is an excellent possibility for being a patriot. And indeed my notes say that he took the oath of allegiance in Henry County, Virginia in 1777. He was also listed on the tax records in 1782 at Henry County, Virginia. And he is listed in Abercrombie and Slatten Virginia Revolutionary War Public Claims, Vol2, p514 for providing bacon and supplies to the troops for which he was paid.
Roland would have been married to his first wife Elizabeth at when he signed the oath of allegiance. He would have had young children in his home as it seems these first children were born in the 1700s. As far as I know Roland did not actually fight in the war. But these three things would qualify Roland/Rowland Salmons/Sammons as a patriot for the DAR or SAR. I looked on the DAR site and he does not seem to have ever had a member prove his service which seems VERY surprising because he certainly has a great many descendants. Perhaps I should get someone else to look for me to be sure I am not overlooking anything.
Next I looked for John Salmons (father of Rowland). He seems to have been proven as a patriot for the SAR for his service as a private in the war in Duchess County, NY. Again I can not find anyone who has joined the DAR as a descendant of John Salmons.
All very interesting! Going to work on this a bit more. Oh, wait the information on the SAR site gave me the idea to take the s off the end of Salmon....and John does show up! And Rowland shows up as well with that spelling....it didn't make any sense that they had never been proven before....And it is beyond interesting that John Salmon was in Duchess County, NY before he moved to Cumberland County, VA. I have some more digging to do! Below is a screen shot of application on the SAR site:
