Society of Sons of American Revolution

Year Book of IL

page 212343.  

8143.DEMING HAVEN PRESTON, coal merchant, HINSDALE, ILL. Born in Byron, N. Y., December 2, 1845; admitted December, 1894. His ancestry:

4.) John Bower Preston=Clarissa North.

3.) John Bowers Preston=Polly Haven.

2.) Col. Isaac Preston=Hannah Boers.

1. COL. ISAAC PRESTON. Born, Cape May, N. J., November 20, 1735; died in Fairfield, N. J., March 5, 1777. Private in Capt. Allen's company of state troops of New Jersey. Colonel of First Battalion, Cumberland county, N. J., troops, appointed February 4, 1777. Reference: Officers and Men of N. J. in the Rev. War, by Adjutant General Stryker, pages 340, 354, 724.