2024-2025 Scholarship Recipients and Essays
Congratulations to the 56 most recent DSDI 2024-2025 Scholarship Recipients!
All awardees were sent an email on July 4th advising them of their award. If you applied for a Scholarship, please check your email as there are specific instructions to follow. If you are unable to locate the email, please contact the Chair at [email protected].
Each application includes an essay written in response to a writing prompt. Links to some of the winning essays follow.
This year’s writing prompt was:
Think about your Signer’s role in the Second Continental Congress as they helped draft the list of grievances against the King of Great Britain to rationalize the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Read through the list of grievances and discuss – How do you think your Signer felt at the time and do you think any of these rationalizations may have resonated with them personally? After the Declaration of Independence was signed and presented to the colonies, which of the grievances do you feel resonated most with the public? Are there any that the public may have ignored or felt did not impact them? Pick one of these grievances that resonates with you. If it has occurred or if it were to occur in contemporary society, how would it impact your behavior or the trajectory of your life?
Scholarship recipients are listed by signer.
Name | Ancestor |
Madison Sisson | Abraham Clark |
Elizabeth Barrow | Arthur Middleton |
Victoria Barrow | Arthur Middleton |
Lucy Court | Benjamin Harrison V |
Elizabeth Zakas | Benjamin Harrison V |
Richard Edmunds | Benjamin Harrison V |
Garnett Edmunds | Benjamin Harrison V |
Andrew Ehlers | Benjamin Harrison V |
Thomas Ehlers | Benjamin Harrison V |
Katherine White | Carter Braxton |
Sean Bowman | Francis Lewis |
Joseph Falcone | George Read |
Jake Bainbridge | John Hart |
Justin Bainbridge | John Hart |
Grace Barrett | John Hart |
Emma Barrett | John Hart |
Hunter Clements | John Hart |
Benjamin Mayhew | John Hart |
Tyler Mayhew | John Hart |
Rory Wahlig | John Hart |
Charles Wahlig | John Hart |
Zahra Walker | John Hart |
Caroline Beecher | John Morton |
Charlotte Beecher | John Morton |
Katherine Gleason | John Morton |
Josh Morton | John Morton |
Lauren Sperry | John Morton |
Reilly Stromberg | John Morton |
Allison Hubbard | John Witherspoon |
Theresa Ramsay | John Witherspoon |
Isabella Ramsay | John Witherspoon |
Clara Ramsay | John Witherspoon |
John Witherspoon | John Witherspoon |
Caroline Witherspoon | John Witherspoon |
Seina Dowgiewicz | Josiah Bartlett |
Sophia Davis | Lewis Morris |
Thomas Johnson | Oliver Wolcott |
Ryane Farrell | Philip Livingston |
Margaret Long | Philip Livingston |
Andrew Harrison Peatross | Philip Livingston |
Kannon Zdimal | Philip Livingston |
Peyton Elise Gresham | Richard Henry Lee and Robert Morris |
Brady Glynn | Richard Stockton |
Pauline Singer | Richard Stockton |
Griffin Yandell | Richard Stockton |
Lucy Martin | Robert Morris |
Eliot Paynter | Robert Treat Paine |
Oliver McDermott | Roger Sherman |
Jonathan Waldmann | Roger Sherman |
Alexander McLaurine | Thomas Heyward Jr. |
Thomas McNamara | Thomas Heyward Jr. |
Ethan Burke | Thomas Nelson Jr. |
Paige Nelson Swensen | Thomas Nelson Jr. |
Stephanie Nelson | Thomas Nelson Jr. |
Palmer Wrigley Stratton | William Floyd and John Morton Jr. |
Cabell Pasco | William Hooper |
Would you like to apply for a scholarship? Visit the following places to learn more and contact us if you still have questions: