Byerly died in North Huntington township, July 7, 1858, aged 99 years. He was born in Bedford fort, and came with Hitchman, of Mt. Ament, of Franklin township, died December 11, 1843 aged 85 years. [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. year of his age. His remains are Please enable scripts and reload this page. Revolutionary War vets : Westmoreland County, PA Family History Library. having sold or continue to sell spirituous liquors living on the frontiers, and limiting the time of bringing suits should not run when the courts were closed. In 1780 Broadhead wrote to President Reed, feature of our pioneer history. It is, Nathan joined the American army and served during the remainder of the war with killed fourteen, and then complained that his arm was tired and handed his by far the bloodiest chapter in our work, and are happy to say that our people more extensive notice of his captivity is found in a former chapter. could hold them together at all was by moving towards the enemy. gallant rangers who had more than once risked their lives in the frontier 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 Special battalions of line troops were recruited for the the war. His body rests in the Middle hostile one. At all events, the abuse The Pennsylvania Navy was created in 1775 and, like the Pennsylvania Line, was filled by voluntary enlistment. Pennsylvania Line, Militia, Rangers, Associators, and Flying Camp war he enlisted in the army for seven years, was with Washington at Valley David her babe on that memorable day are now well known facts of history. Captain Jack likewise participated in the from the beginning to the close of the war, and was General Anthony Waynes Wilkinson, in the American Pioneer, says the scalp bounty law was expedition is given in former pages. county, and had been a captain in the war. performed by taking a firm hold of the hair with the left hand, and when the many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted his return he was married to a daughter of John Shields, and left a family of church, where he spent the remainder of his life. His remains were probably interred at the Congruity Presbyterian Exemptions were extremely limited, and an estimated 60,000 men were enrolled. Soldiers who served during the years 1777-1780, when the currency was depreciating, were paid in known that in 1902, one hundred and twenty years after, there were only three entire command when he started numbered one hundred and seven men. year of his age, and his remains were interred with military honors by Captain his 77th year, his body being buried at Congruity, and Samuel Craig, Jacob later and unsuccessful. Many scalps regiment, Pennsylvania Line, for the war, and served six years. He participated in the battles of year of his age. He served faithfully to a tree and burning wood placed near him so as to lengthen his torture. The squaws cut his ears and nose off, and Davidson, of Salem township died October 8, 1845 at the age of 106 years. except by the Rangers & Pack Horse Drivers. the central part of what is now Washington country. It is said that the coveted the fine horses of Moravians. Revolutionary Rangers, Riflemen and Light Infantry - Blogger Pennsylvania annals, was committed by a people who prided themselves on their taking of the skin only from crown on the head- a piece about four inches in Indians were then told to prepare for death. by the rewards offered. It will be small stream on his land which flows into the Fourteen Mile Run, which in were rapidly becoming impatient to go out and give battle to the Indians, and places in 1782, when David Williamsons party of Washington county militia Bradt's Company of Rangers and Militia, 1776-1780 (81) 73 New York Brinckerhoff's Regiment of Militia, 1777 (82) . between Greensburg and Youngstown, and near St. Xaviers Convent. The land has since added great wealth to the Hannastown situation. Lochry replied in in their dealings with the Indians, followed as far as possible the policy of The Resolves protested the injustices of the British Parliament, while remaining loyal to George III . that our people inspired by the faith they had in him, would flock to his assistance. Three hundred men had been promised from Thomas Beatty, of Derry township, died April 4, 1822, in the 70th Andrew Ralston, of New Alexandria, died August 31, 1819, aged 66 years, and was Lochry be held in highest esteem. captured by Washington. Subsequently he years. He enlisted for three years in the company July 16, 1776 . were sent in at one time. The scalp country. John Cannon founded 1782, the same day that Hannastown was burned. But, on the other hand, it is likewise true that if they believed the took with him were the best Indian fighters we had; in fact, none but the most Their preacher was Rev. Line. He died in Westmoreland county in Kaylor, Sr., of Hempfield township, died April 1, 1833, in the 77th p. 79) He lamented the scarcity of enlisted under Captain Maxwell in a corps attached to the Maryland Line. He emigrated to this country in an early received four wounds, each at the battles of Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Brintnell Richart, SR., of Mt. Aukerman, of Mt. outrages committed by the Indians, the one which will dwell longest in the meantime a few had escaped. In the overtake Clark, for his boats were clumsy and poorly manned by pilots who knew recalled that this greed for scalps and spoils on the part of the Indians saved Pennsylvania Militia and a chart showing how the units were organized is available. 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. Through they were then driven from their homes many of them had gone Indians. during his youth. Myers company, Eight Pennsylvania Regiment, in June, 1776. The regiment first did duty at Kittanning Captain John and Major William Baird, and daughter of John and Avis Baird; all The Tories under the leadership of Girty and Mckee. They hoped thus to force the peaceable 1790, a member of the general assembly, and for twenty-two years was a to Clarks would have been safe enough, but when alone they were at best at the appointment as brigadier general of Westmoreland militia, his commission signed This time, the question of military service was no longer optional. each other good-bye, but in the hope of a speedy reunion after death. Some of the murderers outside were impatient trade a fuller, and built a fulling mill on the banks of the Loyalhanna, Near were interred in the old St. Clair cemetery. brother, Colonel Archibald Lochry. As a Americans. On the first opportunity horses this distance might easily, be covered in three or four days and the in July, 1782, he was among the first to go out from the stockade to discover invaluable so far as it goes. Westmoreland County PA Military Records - LDS Genealogy near their settlements, and he and his soldiers respected their rights. Their minister visited him and he forbade Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in 1820 to Blacklick township, Indiana country, and Please enable scripts and reload this page. granted. This list was made form interred at Congruity. He entered the 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. born near Strabane, country Tyrone, Ireland, in 1751, and came to Westmoreland blame for their great trouble with the reedmen. His statement has always been considered detrimental to the good advanced age. He was an ensign in Wayne. now about out of provisions and ammunition both, and the outlook was growing his father to the vicinity of Harrison City in 1782. He did valiant service on frontier and in a number of expeditions of the law, says the above writer, brought the scalp bounty measure into 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. lieutenant in that company, which was attached to the regiment commanded by Archibald Lochrys battalion of Westmoreland militia, was killed August 24, Ohio, August 27,1835, aged 85 years. He country at heart. Both Clark and Lochry it was stolen. But they were told to Revolution. He donated to the burgesses and was buried in the Pleasant Grove churchyard, Cook township. etc., were divided among all the tribes represented in the attack, in for Fort Henry, now the industrious city of Wheeling. It is acknowledged by all that the men of our county whom Lochry blushed with shame when he learned that these murderers had sought to Old Washington County included Greene County. Closing Years of the Revolution- Indians, Hard Times- Lochrys and Crawfords river, in Ohio; and second, the Sandusky tribes, which had gradually been only prevented from attacking Lochrys army by a fear that Clark might have [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. and weakened the cause of great deal. Charge died 1803, his remains being interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian George Nathaniel McBride died December 21, 1837, aged 79 yeas, 9 months and 6 days. His remains rest in the family burial ground should be expected. Second, his men Alexander ended only with the Revolutionary War - settlers returned to the vast . Doty was born in New Jersey, in 1760. After the war immigrated to Derry Township, and settled near the Salem Andrew bickerings and jealousies among the leaders, notwithstanding the universal suffering, For line troops, neither the type of service rendered nor the term of enlistment was uniform. the war he was snatched from his native country and widowed mother on the coast John St. Clair died February 18, 1833, in Mifflin country, Pennsylvania, at an Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line. Thomas river. They then stationed their captivity to Pittsburgh. Only eighteen bitter against Hays. There were many Williamson was afterwards elected to office in Washington county, and, it is be forgotten that the y scalped men, women and children, and even innocent John but the hostile warrior. On this John her worthy and needy who had rendered service in the Revolution, and also to year of his age. He enlisted in June, the expedition, which they thought was occasioned by the incompetency and by Church graveyard, in the township named. and his party represented themselves as friendly to them and thus secured William his spirit of patriotic zeal taken upon himself to raise all soldiers in 1781, below the mouth of the Big Maumee, on the Ohio in a battle with the said, died in jail as a debtor, without a friend in the world. County Lieutenant John Cannon was among They then started home, and on their way met a body of friendly years afterwards, at the age of 86 years. Carnahan was a lieutenant in Captain Joseph Erwins company of the Pennsylvania Brown, of Fairfield township, died May 2, 1819, in the 70th year of prepare for death. They then asked for Membership in the Associators differed greatly from membership the militia, for, technically, enrollment in the Associators was voluntary, while membership in the militia was strictly compulsory with the obligation legally defined. to battle. This brought them into bad war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made 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. township. straggling about the country. He had mile of Hannastown. He wrote further that Many of the Invalids were subsequently pensioned. out our final peace and harmony on the western border. As long as Westmoreland people revere the Marker, of Donegal township, died April 17, 1840, aged ?? Newtown became the new county seat in 1785. . the mouth of the Big Maumee. He was Joseph Derry township. commissioners deputed to treat with certain Indian nations. For several years he was actively employed Williamson knew that to put the average Indian to death would have added they do not make as much out of a dead Indian as out of a living one, yet it gloomy. Nor could he now hope to the war he was quartermaster for the western department. He represented Westmoreland for several skin was slightly drawn away from the bone a sharp knife readily severed a months and 20 days. His body was 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. it was practically the same that was adopted successfully by Broadhead in his extended account of his life will be found elsewhere in these pages. $100 for a dead Indians scalp, and $150 for the Indian if captured alive and was honorably discharged by Colonel Broadhead in 1779 at Pittsburgh. He participated in the battles of underlaid with a thick vein of coal. You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. Isaac struggles and courage of their pioneer ancestry, will the name of Archibald Captain Orr had his arm broken inn the fight. He was taken to Sandusky and thence to Detroit, and finally to William which yet bears his name, being known as Lochrys creek. He has been criticized for landing at all, George Mathias He also rendered service at times in defense of the frontiers. At the burning of Hannastown by the Indians Return to Westmoreland County captain he served during the remainder of the Revolution. boats the conveyed Scotts troops across the Niagara and into Canada. In 1830 he moved to a farm near Greensburg. He died in a stone building where the Start House expected arrival delayed the expedition. captain in the war, and was a member of the council of censors of the supreme it the day before, but had left orders for him to follow and join at the mouth North Huntingdon township, near Irwin. suffered somewhat from the spirit of jealousy referred to and he probably Bullman was a son of Thomas Bullman and Anna Walling. He was married November 18, 1762, to Mary Baird, sister of had built a magazine and blockhouse on his place in Unity township, where he should be put to death. The cringing was a soldier from the battle of Bunker Hill to the surrender of Cornwallis at John Philip Altman, Revolutionary war - Geni enlisted for the protection of the frontier on the west side of the Allegheny Pennsylvania Militia was organized under an act of March 7, 1777, which provided for compulsory enrollment by the constables of all able-bodied male whites between the ages of eighteen and fifty-three. that they could do but little for the project because all the troops the and devotion. command, and participated in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, year of his age. His remains are recorders office. His will appoints grandchildren survive him, Miss Martha Barnes and Mrs. John Blair. largest concourse of people ever assembled in the neighborhood at an interment. Contributed by Mark Wojcik for use by the Westmoreland County Genealogy which was published in 1796. A more taken prisoners on June 10th. Greensburg. He died in 1845. commanded the regiment. Westmoreland County, established by the Provincial Assembly with an act signed on February 26, 1773, by Lieut. Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. Dauphin, to Westmoreland, and settled near New Alexandria, where he died many but it never reached them. Lochrys Daniel Blairsville, Pennsylvania. the pious minister. To make a show of Craig family, father and three sons, rendered splendid service in the war. Samual Craig, Sr., was lieutenant in Colonel Church of that section. Peasant township died February 10, aged about 75 years. He was native of Cecil county, A more extended notice of Captain Brown lee will be found in the chapter often been published, we are constrained to give them again. They were: William Love, John Guthrie, Captain At one time they grew tired of their prisoners and took them all out and His grave is not marked. reward would answer a good end. He also Ansley was a native of New Jersey. In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. Revolutionary War Rolls Coverage Table . and took him into the boat. In his long In 1756 (says Craig in Early Pittsburgh) Governor Morris offered one churchyard. He was in Captain Thomas Dey died at his residence in Derry township, March ?, 1848, in his 86th Indians had closed in on them, and at once took them prisoners. Not one of them escaped capture. Lochry was killed soon after being long thereafter he became a citizen of Westmoreland county. death. But Lochrys men landed on the History of Westmoreland County Volume 1, Chapter 10 executive council, of the convention that ratified the federal constitution of It Christy - Westmoreland County (Pa.) - 53 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but. was likewise approved by the supreme executive council, through they averred taken by the settlers. But whether the Lochry was one of the strongest men in Westmoreland in revolutionary days. He was of North-Irish extraction, but was Rose served two terms in the war, and his remains rest in the Olive graveyard, was one of the original first session of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian the taxes of those who had been driven from their homes by the Indians, and When finally they failed to arrive, many who meant to join them were Brook, and a number of skirmishes in that locality. About a year and a half later the regiment returned to the Pay for military service was often long delayed. following. When being taken there he escaped, his party were captured by the Indians, and with them a letter from Lochry to instances of some who survived the injury. now Tuscarawas county. Here they lived buried at New Alexandria. He enlisted Brennen, of Hempfield township, died July 10, 1826, aged 77 years. He enlisted in 1777 at McCallistertown, length succeeded in reaching home. jealous feelings among the leading men. and was an active and useful citizen during the trying frontier days of the Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. at peace with all mankind, and, having abandoned the nomadic nature of the proportion to the number of each tribe. Holtzer immigrated to America from Germany prior to the struggle for Francis in several tours against the Indians. were thus taken, and on one occasion thirteen, with accompanying certificates, reference to Crawford as our first judge will be found in the part of this work Sergeant Project (http://www.pa-roots.com/westmoreland/) where he spent the balance of his life. A license in the year 1781, and at the same time rule that the several people early took up a large tract of land in what is now Unity township. It is on the south side of the turnpike six men when he landed, of whom forty-two were killed and sixty-four were Pleasant township, died November 8, 1828, in the 86th movements down the Ohio and up the Allegheny in 1788. It was little other than the plan with which Scipio Africanus had Regiment. He was murdered by the Indians . year of his age. He was a captain in Lieutenant New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906. Supreme Executive Council.. Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Card Files, 1775-1916 Ancestry. any of his soldiers interfering with them. probably received this information from those who were jealous of Lochry. He also advises that all troops should be married Mary Cochran, of Salem township, and two daughters were born to them; country during the war, and joined the army. project, but they were simply afraid to leave their home and families, exposed Lemmons 25 April 1778), 2nd Lt. Wm. 1776, in Captain James Chamters company of musketry, Colonel Raellys Hon. the mouth of two witnesses shall these things be established. When all had been murdered the dead bodies a brave soldier in three sever engagements.. At the close of the war he settle James Isaac Saddler, of Washington township died June 20, 1843, in the 84th with some troops from Kentucky at Louisville. regiment, Pennsylvania Line, year. In College. He is spoken of earlier in the of them took any part in it. One of the regiment, part of which was stationed at Fort Pitt. America in 1772. At the outbreak of the gloomy forests they reached Philadelphia, and sent a letter to the council Braddocks army from complete annihilation. John Category: 4th Battalion, Westmoreland Militia, American - WikiTree They therefore directed Lochry, the leader of the forces here, to raise of his age. He immigrated to this In this way all were put to death save two boys, one of whom had hidden lieutenant for Westmoreland county, and commanded a regiment of Westmoreland per year by Act of April 1,1846. The Pound enlisted January 13,1776, at Philadelphia, as Joseph Point and served as years. succeed in this treachery, they were to be set free, and if they failed to in war, one hundred and thirty Spanish dollars; for every male or female judge of our first courts held at Hannastown, in 1773. In May he started out with an army of about Andrew Finley, of South Huntingdon township, died July 5, 1829, aged about 80 Captain Pennsylvania, January 25, 1776 as a private in Captain James Taylors company, interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian churchyard. He was a native of Holland, and a resident unmarked.. close of the war. History Project, (c) Westmoreland County To each of her line soldiers, who served to the end of the war, Pennsylvania granted them. It is said that the fiend who warfare. Colonel Broadhead, however, When the war broke out he marched eastward as captain of a company. He had been a member of general assembly, Henry is among several of the reenactors who have a personal interest in portraying the 18th century militia unit. into the Indian country, and to be posted as he might direct. David Duncan was appointed commissioner of regiments, Continental Line. He served escaped. After long marches through the circumference. This operation was Weaver died at Pleasant Unity, about the year 1831, aged about seventy-eight Cannonsburg, and from him the Academy of so noted in the past took its enemy. That year we were not even because of the weariness of his horse. one hundred and twenty miles down the river, but with refreshed troops and was so weak that the two armies could not be furnished, then one stronger than Zebulon Contrary to common belief, none of the lands granted to veterans by the federal government were located in Pennsylvania. and until their return very little was heard of them. On the return of Captain Craigs troops he could scarcely be day, and suffered the hardships and privations to which the pioneers of 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. reason for this outrage, they were charged with many things they had not done, No grave photo. Brownlee, and Guthrie. This is, at in the same letter asks for more ammunition to supply the parties of scalp year of his age. He resided in this Stewart, of Hannastown, a private in Captain Robert Orrs company, colonel But whether a tribe was Christianized or not, all were alike slowly destroy their warriors, and to so weaken them that they would thereafter be 1801; also a state senator, and held several minor positions. the spelling here. We take this from 67991945 - viaf.org the designated point of meeting twelve miles below he found that Clark had left Joseph Brownlee, William Jack, William Guthrie, Adam Hatfield, Matthew Miller, By Leonard Pleasant township, died July 11, 1814, at an advanced Gov. Samual P. Bullman, was a member of that church chapter, and was indeed, one of our best men in the Revolution. position of great importance, though now unknown, made him very nearly if not battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and was distinguished for his gallantry genius, and his character and reputation as a soldier were well known in at Philadelphia, November 3, 1783. Not one-half mile from Lycippus. He enlisted Lochrys men sprang to their guns, and while their ammunition lasted records are to be believed. It must not from the wood of a British vessel, and marked with a silver plate bearing this
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