Chapter History
General Edward Hand Chapter, NSDAR, was organized on November 24, 1899, the fourth chapter in the state of Kansas. The chapter name was chosen because two of the chapter members, Alexina Davis and Jane Gilley, were direct descendants of General Edward Hand.
Our Namesake
General Edward Hand (1744-1802) was a physician who came to the Pennsylvania Colony in 1767, under the commission of King George III. General Hand was a friend of George Washington and served as his aide-de-camp and personal physician. He is said to be depicted in the “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting. A rendering of this well-known painting said to have been painted by the original artist, Emmanuel Leutze, on the commission of General Hand’s family was presented to the chapter by the family of Mrs. Davis following her death. The painting is in the Ottawa Library, Ottawa, Kansas.
Our Real Daughter
Our chapter is particularly honored to have a “Real Daughter” who was a member. Terressa Emmons Hoyt joined the DAR on the service of her father, Jonathan Emmons, who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He enlisted from Connecticut but later entered a Massachusetts regiment. He also served in the Navy under General Lafayette. After the American Revolutionary War ended, he took his family “west” to Onondaga County, New York, where he settled in Lafayette, the town named for the French general under whom he had served. Hoyt married and made her own way further west and eventually lived in Osage County and Emporia, Kansas. She was one of only eight Real Daughters who were members of a Kansas DAR chapter.
As part of the NSDAR effort to locate and document the graves of all Real Daughters, the General Edward Hand Chapter, NSDAR, located and inspected her gravesite. The stone on the grave was in good condition but needed a new foundation. Our chapter commissioned a replacement foundation. Later, the chapter rededicated the Real Daughter marker on the grave. Terressa Emmons Hoyt is buried at Lincoln Cemetery in Lebo, Kansas.
Our Patriots
Connecticut:
Fuller, Joseph
Todd, Benjamin
Delaware:
White, Edward
Massachusetts:
Ball, Nathan
Elder, Isaac
Goodman, Samuel
Horton, Isaac
Hunnewell, Zerubbabel
Phipps, Elijah
Sprague, Joshua
Maryland:
Redmond, Benjamin
White, Thomas
New Hampshire:
Buswell, Nicholas
Grant, Rueben
Little, Friend
New Jersey:
Barkelow, Conrad
Chamberlain, William
McCoy, Gavin
Vermule, Cornelius
Warne, George
Warne, Jason
New York:
Stamm, George
Wells, Joseph
North Carolina:
Ames, Thomas
Franklin, John
Prather, Basil
Ryckman, Jesse
Thomas, Richard
Trantham, Martin
Underwood, James
Whitaker, Joshua
Pennsylvania:
Batdorf, Christian, Jr.
Benjamin, Jonathan
Boyer, Michael
Carpenter, Emanuel, Jr.
Carpenter, Emanuel, Sr.
Chapman, James
Clup, George
Husbands, Herman
Levering, William
Orr, William
Polsley, Jacob
Rhodes, Henry
Stout, John
Sweigert, Sebastain
Teegarden, Aaron
Thomas, Owen
Umburger, Heinrich
Van Meter, Isaac
Van Meter, Jacob
Walborn, George Adam
Rhode Island:
Rogers, Stephen
South Carolina:
Blythe, William
Leslie, John
McElwee, William, Sr.
Virginia:
Atkins, Parker
Bobbitt, William
Caffrey, John
Corley, Manoah
Ferryman, Stephen
Fritts, Valentine Felty
Fuqua, Moses
Gray, Joseph
Hall, Robert
Handley, John
Haynes, Christopher
Howard, Samuel
Hungate, Charles
Hunter, Robert
Ice, Adam
Lee, William
Morton, John
Pence, William
Reno, Zela
Rosenberger, Erasmus
Spencer, Nathan
Thomas, David
Wilson, Henry, Jr.
Wright, John
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