The William Tuffs Chapter NSDAR, created a book to preserve our family stories. As the weeks passed by, we were privileged to be able to read and edit our chapter members' stories. Through our stories, we have discovered our ancestors' wisdom, mistakes, trials and tribulations, successes, jubilations, and all the while learning about the history and culture of the early years of the United States. This book may also serve as a reference for researchers compiling their family history. Many of our early ancestors are listed along with their family genealogies. In addition, most of our stories have documentation, unless the stories are noted as being oral history; our stories passed down from generation to generation. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) was founded October 11, 1890. It was incorporated by an Act of the United States Congress in 1896. The chapter, founded in 1923, was named for William Tuffs, a Revolutionary War soldier who was born near Boston, Massachusetts on June 11, 1750, and who was buried in the Bonneyville Cemetery in Elkhart County, Indiana on September 7, 1847. In his later years, Tuffs talked about dressing as a Mohawk Indian and helping destroy a cargo of tea on a ship in Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party with the Sons of Liberty.