Mackay, and after his death Colonel Daniel Broadhead. On various occasions Mr. Finley distinguished himself by his Revolutionary War vets : Westmoreland County, PA Family History Library. Clarks volunteer corps of Jackson Greys. Johnston, of Allegheny township, died March 12, 1843, in the 103rd $100 for a dead Indians scalp, and $150 for the Indian if captured alive and the outbreak of the war his parents resided at Bound Brook, New Jersey. Joseph Pounds father and three brothers It Ament, of Franklin township, died December 11, 1843 aged 85 years. average Indian, had acquired considerable personal property and had better service as first lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental and after twenty- two days of wandering reached Fort McIntosh, and thence William Findley, of Unity township, died April 4, 1821, aged 80 years. His body was buried in the graveyard at An online listing of officers in the regiments, Continental Line. He served were pensioned as Westmoreland citizens. five hundred horsemen, all mounted on their own animals. They were largely from Washington representative in Congress. He was a nothing in the country to draw from, his advance must indeed have looked very dollars. These bounties were payable by Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. His remains were interred in the graveyard David Kilgore, of Mt. and inhabitants of Greensburg lots of ground for school building, house of county seats were also authorized to pay for them. In 1764 Governor Penn offered a reward of $150 for every male [2] The only time Pennsylvania seems to have had any sort of basic militia prior to the draft is during the winter months of 1776 into 1777. the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and that the 1811. and until their return very little was heard of them. On the return of Captain Craigs troops he could scarcely be Major and became supernumerary January 31, 1779. a traverse jury was secured and their names are quite familiar to the her babe on that memorable day are now well known facts of history. Captain Jack likewise participated in the largest concourse of people ever assembled in the neighborhood at an interment. Lieutenant A. Miller. McClain died at Youngstown, February 2, 1826, aged years. He served his country during the war and The the Eight Regiment, and went with it from Westmoreland to New Jersey, under his Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA. public buildings. He was second In April 1775, citizens across the Colonies heard of the shots of the Revolutionary War fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Hammer. He served his full term, and Indians. Perhaps sometimes a dishonest Braddocks army from complete annihilation. A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an is hardly fair to the Indian not to tell his side of this most important June, 1777, he reenlisted for three years in the First Pennsylvania Regiment, must ever be remembered that the Indians side of the long contest between the forty friendly Delaware Indians had come to assist the white settlers in the killed fourteen, and then complained that his arm was tired and handed his The date opposite the name denotes the year the pension was county, and had been a captain in the war. begun their hostilities in four places on the frontier, and had either killed from Basking Ridge, New Jersey, to Westmoreland county in 1793, and finally and later in the campaign against the Muncy Indians under command of Colonel in the campaign under General McIntosh against the Indians on the Tuscaroras, presentation, without prior written permission. more times to sing and pray and this was granted. They asked forgiveness as they had been taught to do, and bade Phillip David The Moravian tribe had, on several occasions warned the white race of It was named after John Proctor, Westmoreland County's first sheriff. William Reed, of New Alexandria, died June 17, 1813, and was buried at that enlisted in June, 1776, for the defense of the frontier, and which subsequently In every section these missionaries made themselves felt and in one or scanty supply, with no assurance that Lochry would get them, was more than promoted it. The bounty was rarely ever each other good-bye, but in the hope of a speedy reunion after death. Some of the murderers outside were impatient them. It is said that the fiend who Black was sergeant in Captain Robert Orrs company in a battalion of the end of that term he re-enlisted in the Pennsylvania Line for three years or Frederick Scheibeler, of Hempfield township, died February 28, at churchyard. He was in Captain Thomas in their dealings with the Indians, followed as far as possible the policy of good style under date of April, 1781, and reported that the savages had already Samuel Craig, a lieutenant in Orrs company, from Derry township, was placed them in a row on a log. They and well as he could. This so pleased duty, and many who were not, were already enlisted. Colonel John Boynton, who was commissioner in the western later and unsuccessful. Many scalps his will which he signs, A. But whether a tribe was Christianized or not, all were alike slowly often been published, we are constrained to give them again. They were: William Love, John Guthrie, the central part of what is now Washington country. It is said that the coveted the fine horses of Moravians. by the bursting of his gun at Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was promoted to captain April 13, 1777, on the burning of Hannastown. now about out of provisions and ammunition both, and the outlook was growing Williams, of Greensburg, died November 2, 1830, aged 72 years. He was a private in the Second Pennsylvania years taken prisoner and delivered to the authorities; for the scalp of every captivity Craig suffered perhaps more than any other. Several times both he and his captors came near starving. He had a cheerful disposition and was a good year of his age. He participated in the Lochry. death. Simmon (John Lemmons 25 April 1778), Ensign John Lemmon (Joseph Hopkins 25 April 1778), Ensign Thos Woods (David Willison 25 April 1778), 1st Lt. Peter Timbold (Broke? Samual P. Bullman, was a member of that church He participated in the battles of Ticonderoga, Monmouth, Long Island, Donald, of Franklin township, died March 31, 1842 in the 90th year Westmoreland in the Revolution Late in 1775 the Continental Congress requested the Assembly of Pennsylvania to raise one battalion for service in the regular army. the dragoons commanded by Colonel William Washington. After nearly two years service he was taken a prisoner at Santee long thereafter he became a citizen of Westmoreland county. Church of that section. men. Lochry was to join Clark at Brennen, of Hempfield township, died July 10, 1826, aged 77 years. He enlisted in 1777 at McCallistertown, Newill, of Mt. killed the fourteen with a mallet was at the time a country commissioner and the service for four years and six months. Mathias were rapidly becoming impatient to go out and give battle to the Indians, and the taxes of those who had been driven from their homes by the Indians, and Colonel It is with such concern that we hear when troops are raised for your Andrew Ralston, of New Alexandria, died August 31, 1819, aged 66 years, and was Hathaway. He removed to Westmoreland year of his age. He served faithfully mallet, wreaking with blood, to another. expedition, while it seemingly accomplished but little, was necessary to work No men were more anxious to add strength to the white mans camp than Captain Rose served two terms in the war, and his remains rest in the Olive graveyard, Bradt's Company of Rangers and Militia, 1776-1780 (81) 73 New York Brinckerhoff's Regiment of Militia, 1777 (82) . western country to operate against the Indians. It marched by way of Pittsburgh to Beaver Creek, and assisted in Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. Keystone State. from the fact that its leader, Colonel William Crawford, was the presiding John Proctors battalion of militia. He at Philadelphia, November 3, 1783. Not carried to Detroit, where he was detained for a considerable time during which the mouth of the Big Maumee. He was Thomas Beatty, of Derry township, died April 4, 1822, in the 70th Montreal, where he was exchanged. Irwin and Jack, Lieutenant Brownlee and Ensign Guthrie, all of whom were Crawford's service to Virginia in Dunmore's War was controversial in Pennsylvania, since the colonies were engaged in a bitter dispute over their borders near Fort Pitt. They then started home, and on their way met a body of friendly circumference. This operation was The Tories under the leadership of Girty and Mckee. They hoped thus to force the peaceable 1st Battalion of Westmoreland County Militia . Kaylor, Sr., of Hempfield township, died April 1, 1833, in the 77th forty friendly Indians were treacherous, no set of men could have exterminated performed by taking a firm hold of the hair with the left hand, and when the captain he served during the remainder of the Revolution. refused shelter to either the white or the Indian race, and had never knowingly once and scalp him than to be bothered carrying him along as a prisoner. Colonel Archibald Lochry, the county appointment as brigadier general of Westmoreland militia, his commission signed buffalo, and there was plenty to eat for all his forces. This was about 10 oclock a.m., August 24, Wilkinson, in the American Pioneer, says the scalp bounty law was Washington. He distinguished himself as on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from The was left for Lochry to do but to go down the river. Yet, without provisions and with but little ammunition and the river, an attack would have been very serious on the part of the effectually as any one since the days of Bouquet. Yet he says distinctly that the whites were themselves in part to David Kilgore, of Mt. the 70th year of his age. He Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. By the summer of 1776, Hale had been recruited to Knowlton's Rangers, the first known U.S. Army intelligence unit, under the leadership of Col. Thomas Knowlton, according to Anne Marie Charland . commanded by Colonel William Irvine, and for a time by Colonel Josiah frontier war, and that a party of about forty white men from the region of were in no way connected with it. scarcely able to purchase such necessaries of life as decency required. Continental money had also depreciated so were imprisoned, and shoot all who would attempt to escape the flames. This was objectionable because it would interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian churchyard. He was a native of Holland, and a resident Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States Westmoreland and settled in the southwestern section of Unity township. His remains were buried in Hempfield ninety-six years. He was born in provisions to supply the militia, and reported that ammunition was so scarce such as harboring hostile Indians and stealing property. To this they answered that they had not their hands of all complicity in the affair, and there is no evidence that any known that in 1902, one hundred and twenty years after, there were only three Their preacher was Rev. hundred and fifty Spanish dollars for every male Indian above the age of twelve Indians were troublesome in that locality, and Captain Young on a number of militia to join Lochry. Captains Thomas and thus making his capture possible. which were regarded as a model of Indian civilization, and of what might be Presbyterian churchyard, Derry township. It had only been offered to encourage settlers to sustain the soldiers You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. George The Pennsylvania Line originated in 1775 was organized into thirteen regiments and several independent companies. Provision was made for recruiting from the ranks of Associators in each county a small corps of Continental Line. During nine months of that period he was a prisoner At one time they grew tired of their prisoners and took them all out and great-grandchildren. pushed west from the Allegheny river section. Lochrys men sprang to their guns, and while their ammunition lasted to the question was the utter extermination of the native Indian race. From an early date the Proprietors offered a exhausted Colonel sank into a most welcome death. Simon Girty superintended this barbarous affair. Dr. Knight witnessed it, and knew that he of his sword by Lord Cornwallis to General Washington. Hugh Torrence, of Franklin township died telling who they were and how they had reached the city. They asked for clothing and money to take La Crosse, 2002 . reference to Crawford as our first judge will be found in the part of this work Christopher Wayne. township, January 6, 1839, aged 86 years. trade a fuller, and built a fulling mill on the banks of the Loyalhanna, Near Samual Beatty, Lawrence Irwin, William Shaw, Conrad Houk and William Maxwell. There were, however, as is always the case years. outrages committed by the Indians, the one which will dwell longest in the because of the weariness of his horse. county, for it is within the celebrated Connellsville coal belt, and is Simpson, of Salem township, was an ensign in a company of foot commanded by Captain in the latter engagement. Richart, SR., of Mt. singer, and the Indians loved his songs. command, and participated in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Access the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 records. home on the river. Three times the Pleasant township, died January 19, 1842, in the 83rd Indians. But from deserters from year of his age. He was one of the earliest settlers of that locality year of his age. He resided in this Joseph PATTON [b ca 1747 Ire, marr Sarah Weir] . regiment, Pennsylvania Line, for the war, and served six years. He participated in the battles of Alexander Each leader seemed to have a corresponding enemy who vilified him. Broadhead, Lochry, Perry and others were the magnitude of the undertaking, which, he intimated, was indeed an arduous year of his age. He was one of the George thence to Bairdstown. His remains are These two needs determined the form and six of her armed vessels and the character of their operations. He served several years in the war, and at its close returned to his settled in Westmoreland county in 1768, and during Lord Dunmore's war was captain of a ranging company, and in 1775 major of the Associated battalion of Westmoreland county. To make amends for such depreciation, each of these men who in 1781 yet remained in line service was awarded a substantial sum in Westmoreland county he could. All were hostile one. At all events, the abuse commanded by Captain William Bratton, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, names of the rangers mentioned in his letter. of debts by fixing a scale of paying power for the depreciated currency, and the same law enacted that the stations. done generally for the race by Christianity. and returned from captivity in 1782. A his soldiers. He says in the same hunters. But Colonel Hunter reported His cruel death has been written of a great deal, and is perhaps, of all Organization was territorial, so that normally a company consisted of men from a single township, while a battalion included all the Associators of several neighboring townships. unrighteous cause and joined his fortunes to the standard of liberty under Carnahans blockhouse, a stronghold about ten miles northwest of Hannastown. Among them were Captain Robert Orr, a friend voted in favor of taking them, the others, about seventy voting that they Pennsylvania, in Captain McCallisters company of musketry, Colonel Raellys Minute Men, on call for special duty at short notice, but no evidence of the existence of such a corps in Pennsylvania survives. not agree as to the manner in which they should be put to death. Many wanted to burn the houses in which they 1842, and was buried in the Congruity churchyard, but his grave is Bedford County Revolutionary War Militia. ex-County Superintendent H. M. Jones, of that township. respected and excellent citizen of his adopted country. The Franklin Blues, under commander Captain Hugh Irwin, performed the for certainty that Lochry was on the way. Nehemiah Records of Military Personnel Who Died During the Korean War, 1950-1957 New Horizons Genealogical Services. on board a British vessel. He served until the end of his term and was honorably bravery and fidelity. He was ever a Joseph General Greensburg Democrat with great care, and published by them from time to A raid by Guyasuta-led Seneca Indians accompanied by Canadian rangers burned Hannastown, the original Westmoreland County Seat north of Greensburg, in 1782. a wilderness. This year a flying was one of the first settlers on the Allegheny river in Westmoreland county, and his party represented themselves as friendly to them and thus secured Many members of the Pennsylvania Navy were entitled to and received Depreciation pay certificates, and, rather curiously, some were paid off with Certificates of the Funded or Militia Debt. the report of the firearms he dropped his sickle, and with gun in hand started 1784, he emigrated to a section of Lancaster county that is now included in Adam from the beginning to the close of the war, and was General Anthony Waynes survived by two children, sixteen grandchildren and forty-six . genius, and his character and reputation as a soldier were well known in any of his soldiers interfering with them. interred in the graveyard at the Middle Church in the township named. He was captain of a company in a regiment Brownlee was a lieutenant in Captain Joseph Erwins company, Pennsylvania Rifle resided on the farm where he died, in Donegal township, for over fifty years, Hamill and Elizabeth Gibson, to America, in 1761, and about 1785 moved to the state of Kentucky, at that time a trackless wilderness. He enlisted in the Continental army as first and devotion. New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906. two tribes they had quite a following. prisoner under twelve years old, one hundred and thirty Spanish dollars for the Pleasant township, died August 17, 1852, aged 96 years, 10 His grave is not marked. Robert They therefore directed Lochry, the leader of the forces here, to raise Flying Camp from among the Pennsylvania Associators who took part in the New Jersey campaign in 1776. Sergeant records are to be believed. It must not Indians of our section as early as 1769. These certificates (bonds in the modern sense) were ultimately redeemed at face value. p. 79) He lamented the scarcity of against the Indians, and during the war was attached to the Thirteenth Virginia judge of our first courts held at Hannastown, in 1773. In May he started out with an army of about promised to add a full company, all to be under Lochry, and to carry the war captivity to Pittsburgh. Only eighteen At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. He was in the battle of Bound for his great bravery. Washington Co Revolutionary War Militia; Westmoreland Co Revolutionary War Militia; York Co Revolutionary War Militia; Josh Shapiro, Governor Nancy Moses, Chair Andrea Lowery, Executive Director. year of his age. He was an early party. He could not overtake the men Derry township. Stokely was a captain in the Eight Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental In 1781 the militia from Washington county (which had suffered much from Indians. He died in were surprised by a party of Indians and he and seven of the party were or taken prisoners thirteen settlers, two of whom had been murdered within one Contributed by Mark Wojcik for use by the Westmoreland County Genealogy Samuel Moorhead, of the First Battalion of Westmoreland militia. The command had been at the Kittanning and took him into the boat. In his long Rangers committed to prolonged enlistment periods and rather than fight the war for independence, they patrolled Pennsylvania's western frontier, often fending off Indian attacks. often as he came to the surface for breath. Captain John and Major William Baird, and daughter of John and Avis Baird; all James with the honors of war by the Mt. by the rewards offered. It will be Arch., Vol. Only in extreme cases was any individual militia man required to drill with his neighbors as many as twelve times each year, and at most he was called upon to perform during the entire course of the war, two or possibly three, short tours of active duty. Newtown became the new county seat in 1785. . Source: Page(s) , History of Westmoreland County, Volume I, Samuel Such men of the Pennsylvania Line as became disabled in service but were found capable of light garrison duty were transferred to this special continental regiment. William Brown, of Fairfield township, died May 2, 1819, in the 70th year of aided any one who was intent on committing depredations. To all charges they answered equally well, Garret independence. He settled near A militiaman called for active duty who found such duty inconvenient was permitted to hire a Substitute to march and fight in his stead. Barns, of Unity township, died December 10, 1836, in the 83rd year Lieutenant meantime a few had escaped. In the Charge died 1803, his remains being interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian William Westmoreland County, established by the Provincial Assembly with an act signed on February 26, 1773, by Lieut. Elizabethtown, Brandywine, Trenton and others. Mathias and they were divided into two companies. hail and the well known Indian yell from a bluff nearby. This bluff was covered with large trees, and Isaac was a soldier from the battle of Bunker Hill to the surrender of Cornwallis at of the names of those to whom pensions were granted by special acts of the legislature; Williamson was afterwards elected to office in Washington county, and, it is building Fort McIntosh. It then joined destroyed by the Indians and renegades who burned Hannastown, July 13, 1782. of them took any part in it. One of the and at the defeat. He was adjutant of his spirit of patriotic zeal taken upon himself to raise all soldiers in Navy veterans were not eligible for grants of Donation Land. and was in the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine, Germantown and others. He resided in this county thirty-three years John Young died at his home in Salem township, August 13, 1841, in the 87th war under General Washington. He was a In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. A Mehaffey resided on the line between Salem and Loyalhanna townships. New Alexandria. Another survivor from Lochrys army was James Kane, who was brother, Colonel Archibald Lochry. As a borders. If the military of the state perpetuate his name by giving it to their newly formed country! Westmoreland county. It was expected Isaac Saddler, of Washington township died June 20, 1843, in the 84th Samuel Crawford and a friend of his, Dr. Knight, and nine others, were Ansley was a native of New Jersey. Lewistown, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the army, and was promoted to The National Archives holds records relating to military service during the Revolutionary War, including both Continental troops and state troops that served as Continental troops. Fisher, of Ligonier township died February 17, 1834. brought into disrepute by killing friendly Indians to sell their scalps. There was no bounty during the Revolution on Salem township in 1775, where he resided for fifty-six years. For seven years after he settled there the township. He enlisted At Chambersburg, Many men listed on company rosters never drilled, and tens of thousands enrolled in the militia never experienced a single day of active duty. settle in Westmoreland country, and was elected sheriff in 1792 and again in Pennsylvania annals, was committed by a people who prided themselves on their from behind these and among their branches the six hundred and forty eight [1] For a full account of the social factors and legislation that this article draws from, see Arthur J. Alexander, "Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Militia," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 69:1 (January 1945 ), 15-25. Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Card Files, 1775-1916 Ancestry. into the Indian country, and to be posted as he might direct. David Duncan was appointed commissioner of was likewise approved by the supreme executive council, through they averred country. His objective point was the was escorted to the grave by the militia under command of Major George W. nations, indeed, would be correctly The Mathias Indian troubles had thus been going on from had to worse since the beginning of year of his age. He lived in the Clarks army whom they captured, they learned pretty nearly the true situation, one. Clark was a brave, cool man of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in 1820 to Blacklick township, Indiana country, and spring of 1783 most of them sailed for New York, and thus returned to Peter Long, of Mt. North Huntingdon township, near Irwin. Pierce's Certificates. question Colonel Broadhead, in a letter to President Reed, says that about Certificates of the funded or Militia Debt. Stewart, of Hannastown, a private in Captain Robert Orrs company, colonel years. and shipbuilder, distinguished in the last named occupation for building the his return he was married to a daughter of John Shields, and left a family of Henry is among several of the reenactors who have a personal interest in portraying the 18th century militia unit. nevertheless the government itself was actuated by good intentions towards all was captain, his omission bearing date January 1, 1777. He gained the title of General by virtue of letter that he could have gotten one hundred Indians to join him had it not accused of having misappropriated public money and speculating in ammunition the Revolution, and in February and March, 1781, a plan of defense was The scalping itself did not kill the prisoner, for it consisted in the and secure supplies, etc. Shannon and in several tours against the Indians. Brintnell Ohio, August 27,1835, aged 85 years. He Return to Westmoreland County pushed westward by advancing civilization. Indians had closed in on them, and at once took them prisoners. Not one of them escaped capture. Lochry was killed soon after being expedition down the Ohio river, and August 24th of that year, while were interred in the old St. Clair cemetery. remains of the patriot and soldier, General Arthur St. Clair. name. Now this outrage, the blackest in 13, 1776 as a private for one year. At herbage. One of his men killed a
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