Robert, Thanks for your response. Do you have any suggestions as to what DAR may be concerned with, other than combat related records? I am fairly new at this. Thanks, Kim On Jul 17, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Robert Burns wrote: > DAR, SAR, and CAR are not concerned solely with combat. > > > At 12:00 AM 7/17/2012, you wrote: > > >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Bush River Monthly Meeting minutes for disownments and >> reinstatements during the Revolutionary War. (Kimberly Spangrude) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:24:32 -0600 >> From: Kimberly Spangrude <kimspangrude@mac.com> >> Subject: [Q-R] Bush River Monthly Meeting minutes for disownments and >> reinstatements during the Revolutionary War. >> To: QUAKER Roots <quaker-roots@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <4791F9A4-ACBA-40E4-850B-96194899BAE6@mac.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII >> >> Hello, >> >> I am wondering if someone could look up in Hinshaw the Bush River >> Monthly Meeting minutes for a specific date: December 28, 1781 or >> December 28, 1782 (Hinshaw reportedly claimed that it was December >> 29, 1782, but a researcher who is helping me things that this date >> may be a mistake, and that it was really in 1781. >> >> I'm looking for information on John Townsend and his brothers, >> William and James, in regard to enlisting in the military during the >> Revolutionary War. The meetings for those days will contain the >> three disownments of James, William and John. I am also looking for >> information on John Townsend's request for restoration of membership >> in 1789, which will have a description of why John Townsend joined >> the military, and why this was non-Quaker to do. To get his >> membership restored, he had to state exactly what it was that he had >> done in a non-Quaker manner. "Going to war" is definitely >> non-Quaker. If that's what he said that he did, the Revolution was >> the only war available in that time-frame.While this John Townsend >> is a DAR patriot, when I tried to join the DAR based on John's >> service, the DAR decided that the previous information that they had >> accepted from as many as 40 plus individuals was not proof of his >> military service. >> >> The original Bush River Monthly Meeting minutes are archived at the >> Hege Library at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. The >> SLC Family History LIbrary does not have them on film, so I can't >> check to see if 1782 date cited by Hinshaw is accurate or not. >> >> Thank you so much, in advance! >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To contact the QUAKER-ROOTS list administrator, send an email to >> QUAKER-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >> To post a message to the QUAKER-ROOTS mailing list, send an email to >> QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com. >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> QUAKER-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the >> email with no additional text. >> >> >> End of QUAKER-ROOTS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 97 >> ******************************************* > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUAKER-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Kimberly, Go to the DAR website and look at the information under Membership. This page has the long list of approved service: http://www.dar.org/natsociety/become_member_how-service.cfm If this is your John Townsend, he is already an approved ancestor. TOWNSEND, JOHN Ancestor #: A115690 Service: SOUTH CAROLINA Rank: SOLDIER Birth: (CIRCA) 1760 CRAVEN CO SOUTH CAROLINA Death: 7-7-1843 MARLBORO DIST SOUTH CAROLINA Service Source: SC HIST & GEN MAG, VOL 2, #4, OCT 1901, PP 264, 265 Service Description: 1) MEM OF VOLUNTEER MILITIA CO The Registrar of your chapter should be able to help you resolve whatever issue you have. Hope this helps. Mary On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Kimberly Spangrude <kimspangrude@mac.com> wrote: > Do you have any suggestions as to what DAR may be concerned with