Bottony Cross Chapter, NSDAR

OUR PATRIOTS

Samuel Atkins, VIRGINIA

James Blair, SOUTH CAROLINA

Charles Blount, NORTH CAROLINA

William Bratton, SOUTH CAROLINA

Ebenezer Bratton, MASSACHUSETTS

Levi Brown, MASSACHUSETTS

James Buckley, Sr., VIRGINIA

Benjamin Butler, PENNSYLVANIA

Henry Cadmus, NEW JERSEY

Robert Caldwell, PENNSYLVANIA

Jacob Cale, NORTH CAROLINA

Jonathan Chapin, MASSACHUSETTS

Elijah Chisum, NORTH CAROLINA

Ninian Cloyd, VIRGINIA

Anthony Collamore, Sr., MASSACHUSETTS

Peter Daniels, VIRGINIA

Elijah Dee, CONNECTICUT

Edward Epes, VIRGINIA

John Gallison, Sr., MASSACHUSETTS

Rebecca Gibbons, VIRGINIA

Thomas Gibbons, NORTH CAROLINA

Spence Grayson, VIRGINIA

Samuel Gregg, VIRGINIA

John Hartsfield, NORTH CAROLINA

John Harvey, VIRGINIA

Thomas Holt, MASSACHUSETTS
Joseph Hoar, Sr., MASSACHUSETTS

John Howe, MARYLAND

Joshua Howell, VIRGINIA

William Leftwich, VIRGINIA

Simeon Keep, MASSACHUSETTS

Solomon Lockwood, CONNECTICUT

Benjamin Longley, MARYLAND

Christopher Mcmamus, NEW JERSEY

Jehu Meader, VIRGINIA

Andrew Moore, PENNSYLVANIA

George Morton, VIRGINIA

Stephen Norwood, MASSACHUSETTS

Eliphalet Parker, MASSACHUSETTS

John Perry, MASSACHUSETTS

William Plummer, VIRGINIA

James Ransom, VIRGINIA

John Reed, VIRGINIA

Reuben Reynolds, CONNECTICUT

Edward Robinson, Sr., VIRGINIA

Edward Robinson, Jr., VIRGINIA

Robert Sampson, MASSACHUSETTS

George Frederick Shall, PENNSYLVANIA /MARYLAND

Jeremiah Shaw, NEW YORK

John Shields, PENNSYLVANIA

Jedediah Sleeper, NEW HAMPSHIRE

BOTTONY CROSS CHAPTER, NSDAR, PATRIOT SPOTLIGHTS

      Elijah Dee, fought in the Revolutionary War in Connecticut in the regiment of Col. Erastus Wolcott.  Elijah appears on the muster roll at New London, Connecticut on February 28, 1777.  By the time of the war there were  numerous Wolcotts in Connecticut descended from the immigrant, Henry Wolcott, who arrived and settled in Windsor in 1635.  Having the typical very large families of the time, by the 1770s Wolcotts were thick on the ground in the state.  

      Fast forward to farm country in Iowa in 1893.  Located between Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Sheridan Township was settled by farmers attracted to the rich Iowa soil.  On September 20th of that year Elijah Dee’s great-grandson, Harry Wilroy Dee, married Evalina Wolcott.  Evalina was the sixth generation descendant of Henry Wolcott, grandson of the immigrant.  Circling back to where we started, this Henry was the first cousin of Col. Erastus Wolcott who commanded Elijah Dee in the Revolutionary War.  Harry Dee and Evalina Wolcott. My great-grandparents, thus cemented the Dee-Wolcott relationship forever.