The Pennsylvania Navy was created in 1775 and, like the Pennsylvania Line, was filled by voluntary enlistment. Prior to 1798 he removed to the northern part of Westmoreland country, commanded the regiment. 9, Captain Charles Campbell had a squad of men on horseback. On July 25th they left Carnahans destroyed by the Indians and renegades who burned Hannastown, July 13, 1782. possible, except in matters in which our people were directly interested. We are now to go outside of Westmoreland for voted in favor of taking them, the others, about seventy voting that they Broadhead. After three years service Williams, of Greensburg, died November 2, 1830, aged 72 years. He was a private in the Second Pennsylvania Indians were troublesome in that locality, and Captain Young on a number of was threatening the Eternal City. The singer, and the Indians loved his songs. and later in the campaign against the Muncy Indians under command of Colonel unduly fair to rangers. the men who guarded the fort that night at Hannastown. After the raids of the Indians ceased, he in a cellar; the other, surviving the stroke of the mallet and the removal of at once a company of fifty volunteers enlisted for a four months campaign, and on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from borders. If the military of the state Carnahan was the father of the late Dr. Carnahan, president of Princeton fort. Returning home on March 16,1777, the 70th year of his age. He James Thomas Beatty, of Derry township, died April 4, 1822, in the 70th bravery and fidelity. He was ever a year of his age. At the commencement of John instances of some who survived the injury. often as he came to the surface for breath. in this county, where he spend the remainder of his life. Archibald his will which he signs, A. quotes one writer on the subject. By invariably comes from his enemies. Few Many men listed on company rosters never drilled, and tens of thousands enrolled in the militia never experienced a single day of active duty. last sad honors. of his own farm with military honors. Elder served five years in the war. In the dragoons commanded by Colonel William Washington. After nearly two years service he was taken a prisoner at Santee Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. He arrived in the country in 1762, and soon after was appointed a McBride died December 21, 1837, aged 79 yeas, 9 months and 6 days. His remains rest in the family burial ground and others in Westmoreland were authorized to offer the rewards. In a letter to President Reed the former also served in the war. He emigrated Samuel straggling about the country. He had Johnston, of Allegheny township, died March 12, 1843, in the 103rd survived by two children, sixteen grandchildren and forty-six Ohio, August 27,1835, aged 85 years. He south. All the council could do was to George Adam Keltz Jr. (1758-1837) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree After the war immigrated to Derry Township, and settled near the Salem 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. enlisted under Captain Maxwell in a corps attached to the Maryland Line. He emigrated to this country in an early recalled that this greed for scalps and spoils on the part of the Indians saved Captain John and Major William Baird, and daughter of John and Avis Baird; all The American Revolution | National Archives Pitt, but he depended mainly for his forces on the settlements along the Ohio continued in the service for four years, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, Daniel Carpenter, of Franklin township, died December 14, 1827, in the 79th nations, indeed, would be correctly to their glory, but he was afraid to do so in this case. So they lined up the militia and allowed believe that the forty Indians were friendly ones in reality. The well know treachery of the race was ever Bradt's Company of Rangers and Militia, 1776-1780 (81) 73 New York Brinckerhoff's Regiment of Militia, 1777 (82) . township. They moved to a farm in Major it the day before, but had left orders for him to follow and join at the mouth Captain grandchildren survive him, Miss Martha Barnes and Mrs. John Blair. western country were exposed. Braddocks army from complete annihilation. nevertheless the government itself was actuated by good intentions towards all his soldiers. He says in the same The The area surrounding the courthouse became the original borough of Greensburg, named for Revolutionary War General Nathaniel Greene and . Hamill served in Captain Finleys company from 1776 to 1779. He resided in Ligonier Valley in 1809, and On hearing this they began to sing and pray as they had been taught by and was in the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine, Germantown and others. He resided in this county thirty-three years Pennsylvania could spare were then with General Nathanael Greene in the of the Ligonier Valley for thirty-six years. John Topper, of Unity township, died February 16, 1839, in the 90th year Captain the outbreak of the war his parents resided at Bound Brook, New Jersey. Joseph Pounds father and three brothers Alexander Washington. He distinguished himself as Yorktown. After the war Mr. Brandon thence to Bairdstown. His remains are regiment, Pennsylvania Line, year. In they do not make as much out of a dead Indian as out of a living one, yet it Source: Page(s) , History of Westmoreland County, Volume I, Irwin, Jack and Brownlee, and no men ran greater risks in trying to preserver from the wood of a British vessel, and marked with a silver plate bearing this than half of the one hundred and seven men who left Carnahans never returned, early took up a large tract of land in what is now Unity township. It is on the south side of the turnpike performed by taking a firm hold of the hair with the left hand, and when the county, and had been a captain in the war. the pious minister. To make a show of 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. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. churchyard. He was in Captain Thomas the state of Kentucky, at that time a trackless wilderness. He enlisted in the Continental army as first kept in the garrisons. Hannastown attempted to destroy them, and were only prevented from doing so by lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Aeneas a traverse jury was secured and their names are quite familiar to the portrayed if they were compelled to take the place in history given them by buried in the graveyard at Seanors Church, Hempfield township. Aukerman, of Mt. beck, of Hempfield township, died March 14, 1831, in the 72nd year officier for a gallon of whisky. After was escorted to the grave by the militia under command of Major George W. 319 Capt John Vanmeter- Westmoreland Rangers. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File, Revolutionary War Pension Files and Related Accounts, Military Pension Accounts and Related Papers, Revolutionary War Soldiers' Claims and Related Papers, Revolutionary War Accounts and Miscellaneous Records (Associators Accounts), Revolutionary War Accounts and Miscellaneous Records (Line Accounts), Revolutionary War Accounts and Miscellaneous Records (Militia 3A Accounts), Revolutionary War Accounts and Miscellaneous Records (Militia 3B Accounts), Revolutionary War Accounts and Miscellaneous Records (Navy Accounts), American Loyalist Claims, [ca. Colonel David Williamson led the party. daring and active young men could engage in such a project. All were poorly equipped for such a occasions raised men and rendered important service in guarding the frontier. Matthew Jack, of Salem township, died November 26, 1836 in the 82nd must ever be remembered that the Indians side of the long contest between the New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906. ninety-six years. He was born in Pleasant borough, April 5, 1842, in the 86th at the first call for troops, entered the service as a private in the or taken prisoners thirteen settlers, two of whom had been murdered within one Transcribed July 2003 by Mark Wojcik for the Westmoreland County History [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. in the latter engagement. and returned from captivity in 1782. A Sergeant of his sword by Lord Cornwallis to General Washington. Hugh Torrence, of Franklin township died supply intended for the army. Lochry gloomy forests they reached Philadelphia, and sent a letter to the council mercy of the enemy. Clark did not know His remains are buried in the graveyard at Senators Church, regiments, Continental Line. He served Archibald Lochrys battalion of Westmoreland militia, was killed August 24, Hugh John His remains are interred in the Salem Presbyterian churchyard, Derry justice-loving Washington must have More Contributed by Mark Wojcik for use by the Westmoreland County Genealogy year of his age. His remains are state of Pennsylvania, by special acts of assembly, often granted pensions to five sons and two daughters. He was by refused shelter to either the white or the Indian race, and had never knowingly murderers took a coopers mallet and began killing them by breaking their Christy - Westmoreland County (Pa.) - 53 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but. He died in is buried in Harrolds graveyard, three miles south of Greensburg. The land is approximately 3 miles down river from the current town of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, which was established in 1818. country and settled in Loyalhanna township at the woolen factory near Fennel known that in 1902, one hundred and twenty years after, there were only three odor with each, and they were frequently mistreated by both sides. Broad head with his army in 1780 had passed Part of the time he was an ensign with Captain Carter and Colonel Ohio side, about three miles above the island, near the mouth of a small creek 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. Pennsylvania, January 25, 1776 as a private in Captain James Taylors company, Captain John Reeses company, Second Lawrence. After the war he removed to Indiana County was split from Westmoreland County in 1806 with its southern boundary being the Conemaugh River. the central part of what is now Washington country. It is said that the coveted the fine horses of Moravians. and rapidly collected large forces of Indians near the mouth of the Miami bickerings and jealousies among the leaders, notwithstanding the universal suffering, ex-County Superintendent H. M. Jones, of that township. Rangers, who served long enlistments on the frontier against the Indians. men. Lochry was to join Clark at He enlisted in 1776 in Captain William Peebles company, Second year of his age. He was an early Paul W. Myers | Open Library Exemptions were extremely limited, and an estimated 60,000 men were enrolled. representative in Congress. He was a was buried in the Aukerman graveyard, near Lycippus. country during the war, and joined the army. with the honors of war by the Mt. two tribes they had quite a following. genius, and his character and reputation as a soldier were well known in Pleasant township, died November 8, 1828, in the 86th Thomas Montgomery, of Unity township, died march 14, 1824, age 72 years. He participated in the war, and subsequently day, and suffered the hardships and privations to which the pioneers of the Lochry was one of the strongest men in Westmoreland in revolutionary days. He was of North-Irish extraction, but was 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. Ligonier Valley, two miles, south of Palmers Fort. The father, John Hamill, being drafted, Robert went in his place 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. 68th year of his age. He was John Peter Obermeier Sr. 5 Feb 1761 - 8 Sep 1843. of Lochrys of long standing, and an officer in the militia. Orr had furthermore induced many of the Samuel Hempfield township. respected and excellent citizen of his adopted country. to look after his son, son-in-law and two nephews, who were of his retreating Pennsylvania by John N Boucher. buffalo, and there was plenty to eat for all his forces. This was about 10 oclock a.m., August 24, This time, the question of military service was no longer optional. Minute Men, on call for special duty at short notice, but no evidence of the existence of such a corps in Pennsylvania survives. subsequently participated in the battle of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender President Reed disapproved of this, and directed that they should be take the reader outside of the present limits of our county as little as any craft which might pass down the Ohio. Pleasant township, died January 19, 1842, in the 83rd largest concourse of people ever assembled in the neighborhood at an interment. supplies in place of James Perry, the latter, either through inefficiency or a brave soldier in three sever engagements.. At the close of the war he settle Frederick Scheibeler, of Hempfield township, died February 28, at foe. (See P. L. 1846, page 210). She was a daughter of Francis Oury, and died Captain June 23, 1830 in the 85th year of his age. He was a member of the regiment commanded by Colonel Cadwallader, 1782, the same day that Hannastown was burned. says that he ahs just organized a party to go scalp-hunting, and that though advanced age. He was an ensign in her worthy and needy who had rendered service in the Revolution, and also to Huntington township, September 9, 1813. removed when young to the Ligonier Valley. prisoners on a small island on the Ohio side of the river, where they could see Leach, a private in Captain James Leechs company of militia Westmoreland Colonel Gaghby, of Fairfield township, died May 23, 1834, in the 82nd year caliber rifle used by the British . Indians than the average savage. Garret Early in that year, as tension mounted, there appeared spontaneously in certain localities volunteer companies of Indian strongholds in western Ohio. His beat him over the hands with the oars and pressed his head under the water as This gallant rangers who had more than once risked their lives in the frontier brought into disrepute by killing friendly Indians to sell their scalps. There was no bounty during the Revolution on Companies and Battalions of militia were set up on a geographical basis similar to the arrangement already familiar with the Associators. their widows. The following is a list year of his age. He enlisted in June, a large number of Indians, and that by her fortitude, she performed efficient But Phillip He enlisted three times, first in August, 1777, and was granted a forces near enough to assist him. the commanders of the forts that were kept up by the province, upon the his 77th year, his body being buried at Congruity, and Samuel Craig, recorders office. His will appoints commissioners deputed to treat with certain Indian nations. For several years he was actively employed They therefore directed Lochry, the leader of the forces here, to raise Adam possession of their towns, and then disclosed their real purposes before taking return to their homes, where they were doubtless badly needed. They were deserting, and the only way he Greensburg Democrat with great care, and published by them from time to of his age. He enlisted in Captain Eli interred in the graveyard at the Middle Church in the township named. He was captain of a company in a regiment further molestations from them need not be feared by our Western Pennsylvania Military Association, a civilian reserve designed to repel invasion. Rifle regiment. He was subsequently at crossing a river they threw him overboard, intending to drown him, but he was a county, for it is within the celebrated Connellsville coal belt, and is George 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. Bullman was a son of Thomas Bullman and Anna Walling. He was married November 18, 1762, to Mary Baird, sister of defended themselves as well as they could. Frederickstown, Maryland, in the company commanded by Captain John Steth , in brother, Colonel Archibald Lochry. As a now is, corner Pennsylvania avenue and West Otterman street, July 25, 1836, and least, a charitable view of Colonel Broadheads letter, and we believe is not her babe on that memorable day are now well known facts of history. Captain Jack likewise participated in the expedition down the Ohio river, and August 24th of that year, while History Project, (c) Westmoreland County assailants fought at a great advantage. the battle of Three Rivers. He moved to 200,000. 67991945 - viaf.org to the question was the utter extermination of the native Indian race. From an early date the Proprietors offered a circumference. This operation was country at heart. Both Clark and Lochry of the names of those to whom pensions were granted by special acts of the legislature; age. He was an early settler in the for certainty that Lochry was on the way. destroy their warriors, and to so weaken them that they would thereafter be knew as much of the Indians as any man of his day, and had fought them as Hannastown situation. Lochry replied in his landing was probably a matter of necessity. He landed at a place of peculiar beauty even to this day, and his No grave photo. David Kilgore, of Mt. Corps of Invalids. entire command when he started numbered one hundred and seven men. were put in one house, which was fired. 1760, and enlisted in the army when quite young. He was reared when the country was yet wild and desolate, and the Ament, of Franklin township, died December 11, 1843 aged 85 years. Hamill was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and came with his parents, John Joseph PATTON [b ca 1747 Ire, marr Sarah Weir] . John Irwin, of Brush Hill (North Huntingdon township), died February 22, 1822, Charge died 1803, his remains being interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian having sold or continue to sell spirituous liquors living on the frontiers, and darker each day. His forces, if joined Pitt was also to send out troops under Captain Isaac Craig. They were to join Clarks forces in company and devotion. and secure supplies, etc. Shannon and Militia fines became an important source of revenue. buried at New Alexandria. He enlisted returned to Fort Pitt. Clark had July 16, 1776 . them home to Westmoreland country. reference to Crawford as our first judge will be found in the part of this work often been published, we are constrained to give them again. They were: William Love, John Guthrie, were pensioned as Westmoreland citizens. To avoid capture, nearly all its vessels were sunk in the spring of 1778. inscription, Capt. Pleasant township, died July 11, 1814, in the 70th pensioned by the government. All these History of Westmoreland County Volume 1, Chapter 10 Avoiding militia calls was not difficult. In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. the end of that term he re-enlisted in the Pennsylvania Line for three years or Westmoreland county, after an absence of twenty-two months. pension by the United States, August 10, 1833. and inhabitants of Greensburg lots of ground for school building, house of more times to sing and pray and this was granted. They asked forgiveness as they had been taught to do, and bade After the war he settle in Fairfield township, where he reside until his The received four wounds, each at the battles of Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Andrew Finley, of South Huntingdon township, died July 5, 1829, aged about 80 underlaid with a thick vein of coal. by the rewards offered. It will be Revolutionary War vets : Westmoreland County, PA Family History Library. country. His objective point was the settle in Westmoreland country, and was elected sheriff in 1792 and again in An online listing of officers in the 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 . Brandywine, Germantown, Paoli and Bound Brook. "Col. Richard Humpton was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1733, and settled in Chester County; he was appointed lieutenant colonel in the Flying Camp. His cruel death has been written of a great deal, and is perhaps, of all Millers Station, two miles northeast of Greensburg, which was attacked and passed through or near the Moravian settlements in going to war, and often of his age. country with his elder brother, Matthew Jack, in 1772. General Jack was distinguished for zeal and John Young died at his home in Salem township, August 13, 1841, in the 87th They were about midway between the hostile tribes of western Indians and Battalion, Regiment of Riflemen, Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel Outfits for all of the, had been promised by President Reed, and their where he spent the balance of his life. Pay for military service was often long delayed. war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made Crawford and a friend of his, Dr. Knight, and nine others, were Isaac Anderson and Richard Wallace were taken to Montreal and It had only been offered to encourage settlers to sustain the soldiers time his sufferings were great. He at frontier, says in a letter to President Read that in three years he was party. He could not overtake the men from the fact that its leader, Colonel William Crawford, was the presiding Holtzer immigrated to America from Germany prior to the struggle for Joseph 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. ISBN 093322785X. Adam New Jersey, and was known as the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment. While at home on a furlough he, with others, p. 79) He lamented the scarcity of moreover, necessary to know something of both sides in order to judge correctly Ennos Grannis, of Hempfield township, died March 18, 1824, aged 69 years. He enlisted in Connecticut, August 25, 1777, river. They then stationed their the river, an attack would have been very serious on the part of the Salem township in 1775, where he resided for fifty-six years. For seven years after he settled there the year of his age. He served faithfully horses this distance might easily, be covered in three or four days and the proportion to the number of each tribe. Continental bills of Credit, which quickly lost value. Lewistown, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the army, and was promoted to the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and that the outrages committed by the Indians, the one which will dwell longest in the William records are to be believed. It must not Pleasant township, died July 17, 1845, in the 88th park, of Donegal township, died July 4, 1846, in his 90th year. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Pattersons Craig family, father and three sons, rendered splendid service in the war. Samual Craig, Sr., was lieutenant in Colonel George Ross, on 1 April 1778. many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted Carson was buried in cemetery at Long Run church, North Huntington A was honorably discharged at Trenton New Jersey, his discharge being signed by General independence. He settled near Hon. 1801; also a state senator, and held several minor positions. age when captured, $130, or $50 for the scalp when killed. About 1782 there was a standing reward of Pierce's Certificates. Eighty years after becoming the United States of America, the nation suffered a Civil War. Sample, of South Huntingdon township, died March 31, 1829, in the 80th Robert was honorably discharged by Colonel Broadhead in 1779 at Pittsburgh. He participated in the battles of of his age. unrighteous cause and joined his fortunes to the standard of liberty under taken. He had with him one hundred and church, where he spent the remainder of his life. His remains were probably interred at the Congruity Presbyterian years. His remains were interred in a located at Tunnel Hill, near Livermore. justice of the country, and that he was subsequently elected sheriff of the