Member of Henry Downs Chapter NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Waco, Texas In loving memory of my ancestors who contributed their efforts to the American Revolution-- GEORGE HENRY BERGER 1733-1820 George Henry Berger was born in Palatine, Germany in 1733, the son of Johan Michel and Katherine Berger. He married Barbara Eddleman in 1752 in Rowan County, North Carolina. The father of George Henry Berger (Barger) of Rowan County, NC, was Johan Michel Barrier (with several varient spellings. He arrived in Philadelphia in 1752 on the Phoenix, and lived on Conestoga Creek in Lancaster Co., PA for nearly 10 years before migrating along the Great Wagon Road to Salisbury, NC. You will find a deed from the son to the father in the land records there. It conveyed a portion of the original land George Henry Berger purchased from Lord Granville. He served the war effort as a member of Committee of Safety, Juror, Justice of the Peace, and Delegate to Constitutional Convention from Rowan County, North Carolina. He was commissioned to organize the Rowan County Militia and help pay for gun powder. (Page 65, "Rowan Story" by James S. Brawley). JOHN BODDIE 1737-1800 John Boddie, III, the son of John Boddie, II and Elizabeth Jeffrys, served in the North Carolina Colonial Militia for Granville County, NC in 1771. He served in the company of his uncle, Captain Osborne Jeffrys. (North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume 22, page 161). He fought in the American Revolution and may have been residing in S.C., by this time as the N.C. Revolutionary Army Accounts on file in the Historical Mission at Raleigh indicate he was paid 40 pounds as a soldier of the NC and SC Militia. (Book C, P. 147, #5049. See also Vol. 1. Folio 44, p. 44). He married Hannah Allen Bartlett and patented land in Lexington County, S.C. in 1774 on the West side of Messer's Branch of Cloud Creek. John Boddie, III (referred to in records as John Boddie, Sr. and in the 1790 SouthCarolina Census as John Boddie, Sr. ) died between 1790 and 1800. He appeared in the 1790 Census records with one son over sixteen, three under sixteen, and four females in the family. The children of John Boddie, III, (or John Boddie, Sr.) and Hannah established by census records, were the following: John IV, m. Sallie Mitchell about 1802; Obidiah, b. 1786, SC, d. 1864, married Margaret Durham: Joshua, died 1839; Nathan, married secondly, Elizabeth Warren; and Allen, married first, Penelope McCarty and secondly Elizabeth. JOHN GOOLSBY 1745-1825 John Goolsby was born in 1745 in Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of John Turrentine and Elizabeth Goolsby. John Goolsby served as a Private in Cptain Thomas Walker's CPO in the 9th Virginia Regiment. Thomas Fleming, Esq. was commander, December 1776. He also served as a Private in Captain William Henderson's Company of the 9th Virginia Regiment, whereof Colonel George Matthews had command in May, June, July and August 1777. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Germantown October 4, 1777. References for John Goolsby's Revolutionary War Service: Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 1775-1783. Vols. I and II, Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1912 State of Georgia, Jasper County Land Grant to Catey Goolsby, widow of Revolutionary Soldier (WRS) signed by Governor of Georgia. JOHN LIPPARD 1734-1804 John Lippard was the son of William and Catherina Lippard of Mecklenburg, North Carolina. He married Catherine before 1760. He was appointed to collect taxes in the Dutch Buffalo Creek section of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1777 and 1778. He served on the grand jury in that county in 1779 and 1780. He was Captain, District II, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 1775 through 1778. Refereces include Briscoe, Mecklenburg County Court Records, 1774-1800, Book 1, 1966, pp 163 and 168. Worth S. Ray, Mecklenburg Signers and Their Neighbors, page 354. J. K. Rouse, Historical Shadows of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Chapter VIII. "John Lippard of Buffalo and Shaney Wolf Creeks", page 158.