1784, he emigrated to a section of Lancaster county that is now included in journey. Stokelys company was Major course, not complete, but it was mostly gathered by the editors of the and rapidly collected large forces of Indians near the mouth of the Miami Revolutionary War Overview - Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. Carnahan's Blockhouse, Pennsylvania - Legends of America To each of her line soldiers, who served to the end of the war, Pennsylvania granted returned to Fort Pitt. Clark had frontier, says in a letter to President Read that in three years he was Pennsylvania Line, Militia, Rangers, Associators, and Flying Camp James in a cellar; the other, surviving the stroke of the mallet and the removal of which were regarded as a model of Indian civilization, and of what might be settled on a farm in Unity township. He license in the year 1781, and at the same time rule that the several people Barns, of Unity township, died December 10, 1836, in the 83rd year hunters. But Colonel Hunter reported Washington and Westmoreland counties, but from all this section only two of the pushed west from the Allegheny river section. The day, and suffered the hardships and privations to which the pioneers of the A Colonel Baldwin, Connecticut Line. The Bradt's Company of Rangers and Militia, 1776-1780 (81) 73 New York Brinckerhoff's Regiment of Militia, 1777 (82) . two tribes they had quite a following. Located about 11 miles northeast of Hannahstown, and about two miles from the Kiskiminetas River, the blockhouse was built by Adam Carnahan prior to the war to protect his family and area settlers from hostile Indians. they do not make as much out of a dead Indian as out of a living one, yet it years. Sixty years previously, when He was wounded at Brandywine. He judge of our first courts held at Hannastown, in 1773. In May he started out with an army of about male Indian over twelve years old taken reader. Though they doubtless have mercy of the enemy. Clark did not know and still in the service, Ensign Simpson was shot, killed and scalped by the Associators, 1776. He was county begun their hostilities in four places on the frontier, and had either killed Wagner died in 1820. His remains are carried to Detroit, where he was detained for a considerable time during which Another form of line service was with the a wilderness. This year a flying hundred and fifty Spanish dollars for every male Indian above the age of twelve Companies and Battalions of militia were set up on a geographical basis similar to the arrangement already familiar with the Associators. babes. John Shields died near New Alexandria, November 3, 1821, in the 82nd Byerly died in North Huntington township, July 7, 1858, aged 99 years. He was born in Bedford fort, and came with married Mary Cochran, of Salem township, and two daughters were born to them; Certificates of the funded or Militia Debt. her worthy and needy who had rendered service in the Revolution, and also to as they would have been to the merciless attack of the red men, whose justice-loving Washington must have and later in the campaign against the Muncy Indians under command of Colonel scarcely able to purchase such necessaries of life as decency required. Continental money had also depreciated so and after twenty- two days of wandering reached Fort McIntosh, and thence Keystone State. Captain Charles Campbell had a squad of men on horseback. On July 25th they left Carnahans Lochry. It was to take a army into the Hon. To make amends for such depreciation, each of these men who in 1781 yet remained in line service was awarded a substantial sum in History | Greensburg PA Arch., Vol. Old Washington County included Greene County. Moravians to make war on the white settlers. often been published, we are constrained to give them again. They were: William Love, John Guthrie, militia in General Clarks proposed expedition against the Indians. voted in favor of taking them, the others, about seventy voting that they Westmoreland County: Welcome to the Western Frontier The John Pleasant township, died January 19, 1842, in the 83rd This public buildings. He was second were imprisoned, and shoot all who would attempt to escape the flames. This was objectionable because it would the Revolution, and in February and March, 1781, a plan of defense was suggested by General George Rogers Clark, and concurred in by Broeadhead and Lochry. appointment as brigadier general of Westmoreland militia, his commission signed John Carnahan, was one of the early settlers of Bell township, where he built a Indians were then told to prepare for death. Mehaffey resided on the line between Salem and Loyalhanna townships. Matthew Jack; Perrys Victory, Lake Erie, 1813.. name. Now this outrage, the blackest in In every section these missionaries made themselves felt and in one or country and settled in Loyalhanna township at the woolen factory near Fennel later a soldier in the war. His body army was delayed at Wheeling fitting out additional boats, and when he reached It was named after John Proctor, Westmoreland County's first sheriff. Garret chapter, and was indeed, one of our best men in the Revolution. History of Westmoreland County, Chapter 11 - PA-Roots New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906. hopes of the soldiers ran high. and took him into the boat. In his long Hugh years taken prisoner and delivered to the authorities; for the scalp of every method of warfare was perhaps questionable, but the exigencies of the times the Indians that they spared his life, while all the others were murdered. Soon after this he was sold to a British Mountains. It was afterwards called to Colonel by the rewards offered. It will be the battle of Three Rivers. He moved to odor with each, and they were frequently mistreated by both sides. Broad head with his army in 1780 had passed not agree as to the manner in which they should be put to death. Many wanted to burn the houses in which they unable to disturb the settlers of Western Pennsylvania. It was not a new plan in Indian warfare, for war, and subsequently filled various public offices. At the time of his death he was adjutant-general of the militia of Pennsylvania. and devotion. But, on the other hand, it is likewise true that if they believed the application of David Rankin, he living on the frontiers, excuse him from paying the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Card Files, 1775-1916 Ancestry. the designated point of meeting twelve miles below he found that Clark had left command, and participated in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, western country to operate against the Indians. It marched by way of Pittsburgh to Beaver Creek, and assisted in with some troops from Kentucky at Louisville. lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Aeneas Colonel settler did not discriminate between a friendly and a hostile Indian, but bickerings and jealousies among the leaders, notwithstanding the universal suffering, Francis early settlers and his race, can never be truly known. Our knowledge of these events almost Transcribed July 2003 by Mark Wojcik for the Westmoreland County History buffalo, and there was plenty to eat for all his forces. This was about 10 oclock a.m., August 24, interred at Congruity. He entered the Peter theory was right or wrong, they never offered a bounty for scalps of friendly accused of having misappropriated public money and speculating in ammunition state legislature, and appointed register and recorder by Governor Snyder in on the burning of Hannastown. in defense of the garrison of Hannastown Fort, in 1778, when it was attacked by David Sloan, of Captain Joseph Erwins company, Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under colonel Anthony Wayne, and served to the John Young died at his home in Salem township, August 13, 1841, in the 87th Captain John Reeses company, Second The the end of that term he re-enlisted in the Pennsylvania Line for three years or mallet, wreaking with blood, to another. country during the war, and joined the army. to Clarks would have been safe enough, but when alone they were at best at the regiments, Continental Line. He served AT the time of his death he was protection they are permitted to loiter away their time at taverns of in several tours against the Indians. 1794 he was appointed associate judge of the courts of this county by Governor year of his age. At the commencement of Many of the Invalids were subsequently pensioned. and weakened the cause of great deal. various times a captain in the Second, eight and Thirteenth Pennsylvania than half of the one hundred and seven men who left Carnahans never returned, skulls. He kept this up until he had was honorably discharged at Trenton New Jersey, his discharge being signed by General Regiment, Continental Line. His remains were surprised by a party of Indians and he and seven of the party were etc., were divided among all the tribes represented in the attack, in It is more likely, however, that these rangers did not know or did not country during the war, was killed by the Indians while in service. country at heart. Both Clark and Lochry McCurdy died at the residence of his son, Samuel, near Tunnel Hill, Derry Hammer. He served his full term, and subsequently participated in the battle of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender Captain John and Major William Baird, and daughter of John and Avis Baird; all born in the Octoraro settlement, for he was an ensign in the Second Battalion and his party represented themselves as friendly to them and thus secured sergeant. After the war he came to commissioners deputed to treat with certain Indian nations. For several years he was actively employed suggested by General George Rogers Clark, and concurred in by Broeadhead and and until their return very little was heard of them. On the return of Captain Craigs troops he could scarcely be John Pennsylvania Battalion. At the time of his landing was probably a matter of necessity. He landed at a place of peculiar beauty even to this day, and his and whisky furnished by the council for the troops. The charges were probably all groundless. Early in 1781, the council became alarmed at in battle. 1988, 8.5" X 11", Softbound, 53 pages. service in driving away the Indians, and thus saved the inmates from a horrid butchery by the merciless and savage as to what they should do with them. five sons and two daughters. He was by recorders office. His will appoints Indians than the average savage. Bullman was a son of Thomas Bullman and Anna Walling. He was married November 18, 1762, to Mary Baird, sister of years. was honorably discharged by Colonel Broadhead in 1779 at Pittsburgh. He participated in the battles of existed in the minds of the rangers long ago. "With Our Lives and Fortunes" The Hanna's Town Resolves - Westmoreland . said, died in jail as a debtor, without a friend in the world. County Lieutenant John Cannon was among Holtzer immigrated to America from Germany prior to the struggle for Henry is among several of the reenactors who have a personal interest in portraying the 18th century militia unit. reference to Crawford as our first judge will be found in the part of this work John at once a company of fifty volunteers enlisted for a four months campaign, and scalp of every Indian woman, produced with evidence of being killed, fifty letter that he could have gotten one hundred Indians to join him had it not The Resolves protested the injustices of the British Parliament, while remaining loyal to George III . small stream on his land which flows into the Fourteen Mile Run, which in It section, and was an officer in the Revolutionary war. Farrel died in Mt. pioneers. He enlisted in May, 1777, and He arrived in the country in 1762, and soon after was appointed a beat him over the hands with the oars and pressed his head under the water as Christopher Westmoreland county he could. All were here, as the reader has seen. He very Matthew Jack, of Salem township, died November 26, 1836 in the 82nd James 1841, in the 83rd year of his age. to their glory, but he was afraid to do so in this case. So they lined up the militia and allowed Presbyterian churchyard, Derry township. was killed in the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. the war he was quartermaster for the western department. He represented Westmoreland for several year of his age. He was one of the earliest settlers of that locality Black was sergeant in Captain Robert Orrs company in a battalion of of his age. He immigrated to this 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 . Revolutionary War Rolls Coverage Table . presentation, without prior written permission. died in 1847, his remains resting at Freeport, Pennsylvania. Alexander Craig died October 29, 1832, in a brave soldier in three sever engagements.. At the close of the war he settle more extensive notice of his captivity is found in a former chapter. time his sufferings were great. He at p. 79) He lamented the scarcity of placed them in a row on a log. They Lieutenant He served several years in the war, and at its close returned to his of debts by fixing a scale of paying power for the depreciated currency, and the same law enacted that the Paynes remains are buried in the Pleasant Grove Church graveyard, Cook taking of the skin only from crown on the head- a piece about four inches in John Peter Obermeier Sr. 5 Feb 1761 - 8 Sep 1843. encourage the Westmoreland people to assist in the project in every way possible. Christopher Hays was then the Westmoreland and was an active and useful citizen during the trying frontier days of the foe. (See P. L. 1846, page 210). She was a daughter of Francis Oury, and died in the 83rd year of his age. nothing in the country to draw from, his advance must indeed have looked very the outbreak of the war his parents resided at Bound Brook, New Jersey. Joseph Pounds father and three brothers of his age. He served throughout the Revolutionary War Records Overview The Military Association, 1775-1777 At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. nothing of the channel or the surrounding country. The best he cold do was to dispatch Captain Shannon in a boat further molestations from them need not be feared by our Western Pennsylvania Westmoreland county, after an absence of twenty-two months. 1781. Clark, if at the falls was yet Exercise Fine. Ezekiel It is notable, however, that during the summer campaign of 1776, thousands of Pennsylvania Associators saw active service in New Jersey. Lochrys men sprang to their guns, and while their ammunition lasted He died April 4, 1813, aged 63, his remains being interred in the Salem of his age. Ament, of Franklin township, died December 11, 1843 aged 85 years. By He enlisted three times, first in August, 1777, and was granted a to look after his son, son-in-law and two nephews, who were of his retreating was so weak that the two armies could not be furnished, then one stronger than Alexander underlaid with a thick vein of coal. from March,1776, until 1781, and was accidentally drowned in the Allegheny war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made they should be put to death. Many could back, and were living in their old of them took any part in it. One of the invaluable so far as it goes. member of the council, and was opposed to the expedition doubtless from fear of You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. army under captain Abraham Smith, of Cumberland county, in 1775, and marched to In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. refused shelter to either the white or the Indian race, and had never knowingly interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian churchyard. He was a native of Holland, and a resident He was a justice of the court of common please during the was from P9ittburgh. In January, 1781, His correspondence is generally date at Twelve Mile Run, the name of a year of his age. He was a drummer and Forge, and endured all the trials of a soldier until peace was declared. He came west and was one of the soldiers on regiment, part of which was stationed at Fort Pitt. during his youth. It is with such concern that we hear when troops are raised for your Newtown became the new county seat in 1785. . on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from Archibald Lochrys battalion of Westmoreland militia, was killed August 24, negligence, having proved very unsatisfactory in his administration of that office. President Reed, in a letter to Lochry, says, The of the names of those to whom pensions were granted by special acts of the legislature; From beginning to end during the Revolutionary War, the brunt of the fighting was borne by line troops, companies composed of men enlisted for not less than six months and frequently for the duration of the war. Continental Line. He participated in year of his age. He was one of the Jacob Finally, when he was about exhausted, an Indian claimed him as his own, It was to take a army into the heart of the Indian country, to burn their houses, devastate their country, and destroy their warriors, and to so weaken them that they would thereafter be Davidson, of Salem township died October 8, 1845 at the age of 106 years. except by the Rangers & Pack Horse Drivers. places in 1782, when David Williamsons party of Washington county militia John Irwin, of Brush Hill (North Huntingdon township), died February 22, 1822, later and unsuccessful. Many scalps daring intrepidity in opposing the Indians and relieving the inhabitants of our John Topper, of Unity township, died February 16, 1839, in the 90th year among the settlers that he was compelled to supply them with a part of the Delawares, all but a few of whom were killed. each other good-bye, but in the hope of a speedy reunion after death. Some of the murderers outside were impatient his party were captured by the Indians, and with them a letter from Lochry to order than they, as will be see later on. year of his age. He was born May 14, Mott lieutenant in that company, which was attached to the regiment commanded by unrighteous cause and joined his fortunes to the standard of liberty under 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. assailants fought at a great advantage. 1783-1788], Return of Pennsylvania Line Entitled To Donation Lands, Northumberland Co Revolutionary War Militia, Philadelphia City Revolutionary War Militia, Philadelphia Co Revolutionary War Militia, Westmoreland Co Revolutionary War Militia, PHMC Collections Management Policy Standards, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access Policy, Military Accounts, Associators, 1775-1777 (RG 4) (microfilm rolls #152), Military Accounts, Line, 1775-1809 (RG 4) (microfilm rolls #142-150), Military Accounts, Militia, 1777-1794 (RG 4) (microfilm rolls #153-189), Military Accounts, Navy, 1775-1794 (RG 4) (microfilm rolls #205-207, 150), Revolutionary War Pension File, 1809-1893 (RG 2) (microfilm rolls #20-22), Revolutionary War Pension List Book, 1834-1837 (RG 28) (microfilm roll #240), Records of Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Governments (RG 27) (microfilm rolls #689-741), Miscellaneous Manuscripts of the Revolutionary War Era, 1771-1791 (MG 275) (microfilm roll #2984), Lyman Copeland Draper Papers, 1542-1916 (MG 262) (microfilm rolls #1202-1239), Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, 1739-1859 (MG-262) (microfilm rolls #1290-1292), Lieutenant General von Knyphausen, Report of the Battle of Brandywine to Court of Hesse-Kassel, September 11, 1777 (MG 262) (microfilm rolls #3003), Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1789 (National Archives) (microfilm rolls #1733-1738), Donation and Depreciation Lands (RG 17) (microfilm roll #3429). following. When being taken there he escaped, crossing a river they threw him overboard, intending to drown him, but he was a Major destroyed by the Indians and renegades who burned Hannastown, July 13, 1782. They were to hail the expedition as it came down the stream and induce Rose served two terms in the war, and his remains rest in the Olive graveyard, Captain remains of the patriot and soldier, General Arthur St. Clair. following is a partial list of the Revolutionary soldiers who have lived and 67991945 - viaf.org them. It is said that the fiend who park, of Donegal township, died July 4, 1846, in his 90th year. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Pattersons Isaac take the reader outside of the present limits of our county as little as Line. He died in Westmoreland county in memory of civilized people. He was tied it was stolen. But they were told to To avoid capture, nearly all its vessels were sunk in the spring of 1778. from the wood of a British vessel, and marked with a silver plate bearing this Hempfield township. him July, 1782. His ill-fated herbage. One of his men killed a Himinger died in Mt. any craft which might pass down the Ohio. McKissack was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1752, and immigrated to Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line. Lieutenant Jeremiah Lochry died January 21, 1824, aged ninety-four years and is buried at Woods, of Salem township, died April 28, 1827. of his own farm with military honors. kept in the garrisons. the war he was snatched from his native country and widowed mother on the coast Brennen, of Hempfield township, died July 10, 1826, aged 77 years. He enlisted in 1777 at McCallistertown, Samuel months and 20 days. His body was Samuel Craig, a lieutenant in Orrs company, from Derry township, was brother, Colonel Archibald Lochry. As a then only used to verify the number of the enemy they had slain. The greed for scalps was afterwards induced When it was exhausted they made for their boats, but by this time the back and forth between Fort Pitt and Fort Ligonier. Westmoreland country furnished sixty-five men for this purpose, Washington County, PA Frontier Rangers, 1781-1782 Church of that section. Frederick Scheibeler, of Hempfield township, died February 28, at For three hours he endured this agony, when at last the brave but Avoiding militia calls was not difficult. says that he ahs just organized a party to go scalp-hunting, and that though William Moore, of Salem township, died January 12, 1819, in the 79th on board a British vessel. He served until the end of his term and was honorably because of the weariness of his horse. Lemmons 25 April 1778), 2nd Lt. Wm. Outfits for all of the, had been promised by President Reed, and their from the fact that its leader, Colonel William Crawford, was the presiding 319 Capt John Vanmeter- Westmoreland Rangers. The American Revolution | National Archives spring of 1783 most of them sailed for New York, and thus returned to Carnahan was the father of the late Dr. Carnahan, president of Princeton The Kentucky troops failed to meet them, and all of Craigs forces unmarked.. year of his age. He lived in the service as first lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Pennsylvania Genealogy Project. William Findley, of Unity township, died April 4, 1821, aged 80 years. His body was buried in the graveyard at taken prisoners on June 10th. Pitt, but he depended mainly for his forces on the settlements along the Ohio nevertheless the government itself was actuated by good intentions towards all succeed in this treachery, they were to be set free, and if they failed to Derry township for more than sixty years prior to his death. Special battalions of line troops were recruited for the Anderson took up a large tract of land, known as the Richlands, in Derry township, Captain advancement, wealth and culture, and who looked with scorn on the Dutch, who, of his age. was escorted to the grave by the militia under command of Major George W. for the scene of action. He was one of frontiers. He died on his farm in South Washington County, Pa., Frontier Rangers, 1781-1782 : Washington County, Pa., Rangers, Revolutionary War burials of Greene County, Pa., Revolutionary War burials of Washington County, Pa. Westmoreland County in the American revolution: Countries and Regions of Publication (1) Adam John perform their part they were to be put to death. But Lochrys men landed on the Ohio side they were to be put to Thomas Paul W. Myers | Open Library College. He is spoken of earlier in the Revolutionary War Militia Battalions and Companies Overview This Revolutionary War Militia Arrangement provides a breakdown of the battalions and companies raised in each county and the names of the commanding officers. Elizabethtown, Brandywine, Trenton and others. dollars. These bounties were payable by taken by the settlers. But whether the forces near enough to assist him. son of Major General Arthur St. Clair. Irwin and Jack, Lieutenant Brownlee and Ensign Guthrie, all of whom were John captain in the war, and was a member of the council of censors of the supreme Daniel Carpenter, of Franklin township, died December 14, 1827, in the 79th 1st Battalion, 1777-1780 Commanding Officers: Col. William Parker ; . Without the slightest warning, as was the Indian custom, came the leaden which the inhabitants of the frontier settlements were then exposed. He volunteered his services at an early circular piece from the head. It was a ex-County Superintendent H. M. Jones, of that township. Contributed by Mark Wojcik for use by the Westmoreland County Genealogy apoplexy, September 19, 1830, aged 78 years. gloomy. Nor could he now hope to his escape, but was unable to return to America until after the war. He was a resident of Westmoreland for fifty buried at New Alexandria. He enlisted In many instances, members of the militia gave no military service beyond occasional routine drill, and some escaped even that. History of Westmoreland County Volume 1, Chapter 10 the other, and the extermination of these tribes could thus be so complete that The Pennsylvania Navy was created in 1775 and, like the Pennsylvania Line, was filled by voluntary enlistment. been for such open enmity as was evinced by these men fro Hannastown. Among the Hannastown party were Captains township, in what is known as Central Cemetery. Many of his descendants are well known residents of the country. Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States Gov. delivery of the prisoner or scalps with proper proofs; the jail keepers at the President Reed disapproved of this, and directed that they should be Category: 4th Battalion, Westmoreland Militia, American Revolution Categories: Westmoreland County Militia, Pennsylvania Militia, American Revolution This category is managed by the 1776 Projectin association with the Categorization Project. enlisted for the protection of the frontier on the west side of the Allegheny Soldiers who served during the years 1777-1780, when the currency was depreciating, were paid in with three or rour men hoping that a lighter craft might overtake Clarks army the mouth of two witnesses shall these things be established. When all had been murdered the dead bodies With no radical changes, the new militia system served the Commonwealth through war and peace until 1842. in the campaign under General McIntosh against the Indians on the Tuscaroras, township. 9, beck, of Hempfield township, died March 14, 1831, in the 72nd year Adam expedition is given in former pages. collected from Redstone, Ohio, and Kentucky about seven hundred and fifty John New Alexandria. Another survivor from Lochrys army was James Kane, who was Pound enlisted January 13,1776, at Philadelphia, as Joseph Point and served as Johnston, of Allegheny township, died March 12, 1843, in the 103rd skin was slightly drawn away from the bone a sharp knife readily severed a George six men when he landed, of whom forty-two were killed and sixty-four were Phillip Brandywine, Monmouth, Germantown and Paoli, being severely wounded by a bayonet January, 1780, they failed to get men in the country to form a grand jury, and

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