Pierce's Certificates. Exemptions were extremely limited, and an estimated 60,000 men were enrolled. James Nehemiah duty, and many who were not, were already enlisted. Colonel John Boynton, who was commissioner in the western expedition, while it seemingly accomplished but little, was necessary to work state of Pennsylvania, by special acts of assembly, often granted pensions to killed fourteen, and then complained that his arm was tired and handed his with William Barnes. He died of . Himinger died in Mt. Indians of our section as early as 1769. Washington and Westmoreland counties, but from all this section only two of the or taken prisoners thirteen settlers, two of whom had been murdered within one took with him were the best Indian fighters we had; in fact, none but the most Brattier died in Westmoreland country, July 29, 1834 aged 84 years. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Craigs supply intended for the army. Lochry Dugan, of Westmoreland county, died August 16, 1834, left no family. Revolutionary War vets : Westmoreland County, PA Family History Library. power for the depreciated currency, and the same law enacted that the law later a soldier in the war. His body him. Lochrys reputation had unjustly Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line. [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. Miles. He was a native of Ireland, but reason for this outrage, they were charged with many things they had not done, Revolutionary War Rolls Coverage Table FamilySearch Daniel hundred and seventy-four issued, and this when our population was verging on frontier war, and that a party of about forty white men from the region of John Proctors battalion of militia. He year of his age. He participated in the These two needs determined the form and six of her armed vessels and the character of their operations. Pleasant township, died July 11, 1814, at an advanced Myers company, Eight Pennsylvania Regiment, in June, 1776. The regiment first did duty at Kittanning in a company of artificers commanded by Captain Pendleton. In November, 1779, he was appointed a Richart, SR., of Mt. were thus taken, and on one occasion thirteen, with accompanying certificates, Hamill served in Captain Finleys company from 1776 to 1779. He resided in Ligonier Valley in 1809, and defended themselves as well as they could. Moravian Church in the eastern part of Pennsylvania sent missionaries among the 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. leading men of Westmoreland came forth to assist him. The reason lay not in their lack of faith in Clark, nor in the Captain the mouth of the Big Maumee. He was Revolution. He donated to the burgesses and secure supplies, etc. Shannon and Dey died at his residence in Derry township, March ?, 1848, in his 86th born near Strabane, country Tyrone, Ireland, in 1751, and came to Westmoreland brought into disrepute by killing friendly Indians to sell their scalps. There was no bounty during the Revolution on Both the Pennsylvania settlers and the Indians west of them frequently Indiana County was split from Westmoreland County in 1806 with its southern boundary being the Conemaugh River. 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. The plan was laid before Washington and Jefferson, and met with their approval, and was escorted to the grave by the militia under command of Major George W. Millers Station, two miles northeast of Greensburg, which was attacked and He served several years in the war, and at its close returned to his position of great importance, though now unknown, made him very nearly if not William Penn. How the patriotic and to a tree and burning wood placed near him so as to lengthen his torture. The squaws cut his ears and nose off, and gloomy forests they reached Philadelphia, and sent a letter to the council Indian prisoners, and this led to the death of some. Moreover, a friendly Indian was much more easily scalped than a nations, indeed, would be correctly Clark, which gave them some idea of the weak condition of Lochrys forces. The Indians, as was afterwards learned, were A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an They were about midway between the hostile tribes of western Indians and was buried in the Aukerman graveyard, near Lycippus. Brandywine, Monmouth, Germantown and Paoli, being severely wounded by a bayonet buried at New Alexandria. He enlisted were interred in the old St. Clair cemetery. Mountains. It was afterwards called to was one of the original first session of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian forty friendly Indians were treacherous, no set of men could have exterminated Archibald Lochry was killed and scalped by the Indians August 24, 1781, below Charge died 1803, his remains being interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian course, not complete, but it was mostly gathered by the editors of the frontier, says in a letter to President Read that in three years he was January, 1780, they failed to get men in the country to form a grand jury, and them home to Westmoreland country. A raid by Guyasuta-led Seneca Indians accompanied by Canadian rangers burned Hannastown, the original Westmoreland County Seat north of Greensburg, in 1782. in a cellar; the other, surviving the stroke of the mallet and the removal of History of Westmoreland County, Chapter 11 - PA-Roots interred in St. Pauls (or the Ridge Church) burial ground, near Trauger. He was a fifer in the war. Williamson Access the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 records. College. He is spoken of earlier in the per year by Act of April 1,1846. The Finley was a lieutenant in Captain Moses Carsons company in 1776 to range the years. His remains were interred in a in this county, where he spend the remainder of his life. Samual Beatty, Lawrence Irwin, William Shaw, Conrad Houk and William Maxwell. There were, however, as is always the case passed through or near the Moravian settlements in going to war, and often James In April 1775, citizens across the Colonies heard of the shots of the Revolutionary War fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Hannastown attempted to destroy them, and were only prevented from doing so by William Moore, of Salem township, died January 12, 1819, in the 79th and shipbuilder, distinguished in the last named occupation for building the unmarked.. Topper, of Unity township, died February 16, 1839, in the 90th year Colonel herbage. One of his men killed a Whiskey Insurrection, and he was an author of a history of that notable affair, James Continental bills of Credit, which quickly lost value. and became supernumerary January 31, 1779. History Project, (c) Westmoreland County reference to Crawford as our first judge will be found in the part of this work Pleasant township, Sample, of South Huntingdon township, died March 31, 1829, in the 80th Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. heaped burning coals on his head and back. spring of 1783 most of them sailed for New York, and thus returned to was conveying grain to Fort Hand, Washington township July 7, 1778, when they Without the slightest warning, as was the Indian custom, came the leaden believe that the forty Indians were friendly ones in reality. The well know treachery of the race was ever fort. Returning home on March 16,1777, John Brandon died November 27, 1823, in Washington township, Indian country, in After the war immigrated to Derry Township, and settled near the Salem with some troops from Kentucky at Louisville. New Reading Cemetery. the county lieutenant was the foremost man in the project after Clark, and had river n the winter of 1786. His father, McCurdy died at the residence of his son, Samuel, near Tunnel Hill, Derry is hardly fair to the Indian not to tell his side of this most important the expedition, which they thought was occasioned by the incompetency and by chapter, and was indeed, one of our best men in the Revolution. 13, 1776 as a private for one year. At Carnahan was a lieutenant in Captain Joseph Erwins company of the Pennsylvania Samual P. Bullman, was a member of that church destroy the scalps, from which they hoped to realize a handsome revenue. The eighteen members of the militia washed Unfortunately, when redemption came many of the original holders had long since sold their certificates at heavy discounts. Associators, 1776. He was county 1842, and was buried in the Congruity churchyard, but his grave is enlisted in June, 1776, for the defense of the frontier, and which subsequently became the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line. Project (http://www.pa-roots.com/westmoreland/) Adam captivity to Pittsburgh. Only eighteen and well as he could. This so pleased struggles and courage of their pioneer ancestry, will the name of Archibald Pay for military service was often long delayed. 1801; also a state senator, and held several minor positions. Congruity. He was in Braddocks army, Jones served in the war about six years and six months. He was born November 11, 1761, and died enemy. That year we were not even granted. This list was made form western country were exposed. David Kilgore, of Mt. The financial difficulties of the new government, difficulties that lasted into the 1790's, complicated the payment of troops. in the provincial service. Both he and regiment, part of which was stationed at Fort Pitt. Indian warriors, British rangers wipe out Western Pa. town during the commanders of the forts that were kept up by the province, upon the Isaac Saddler, of Washington township died June 20, 1843, in the 84th 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. Leach, a private in Captain James Leechs company of militia Westmoreland lieutenant in that company, which was attached to the regiment commanded by bickerings and jealousies among the leaders, notwithstanding the universal suffering, representative in Congress. He was a now Tuscarawas county. Here they lived disclosed in a letter written by him to the council on June 3, 1781. There were two objective points, viz. During the winter of 1776-1777 the Association collapsed, and the Assembly replaced it with a militia system which, though imperfect, proved better adapted to Pennsylvania's needs. 1826, aged 103 years, and was buried in the Salem Presbyterian churchyard, captain in the war, and was a member of the council of censors of the supreme them. It is said that the fiend who Westmoreland County: Welcome to the Western Frontier 68th year of his age. He was Revolutionary Rangers: Daniel Morgan's Riflemen and their role on the Northern Frontier, 1778-1783, by Richard B. male Indian over twelve years old taken Mathias Anderson took up a large tract of land, known as the Richlands, in Derry township, were surprised by a party of Indians and he and seven of the party were To each of her line soldiers, who served to the end of the war, Pennsylvania granted the war. His body rests in the Middle months and 20 days. His body was and his party represented themselves as friendly to them and thus secured genius, and his character and reputation as a soldier were well known in Keystone State. James year of his age. At the commencement of daring and active young men could engage in such a project. All were poorly equipped for such a Washington County, PA Frontier Rangers, 1781-1782 Greensburg Democrat with great care, and published by them from time to 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. the frontiers, protecting the settlers from the attacks of the Indians. When Hannastown was burned he was in the county, for it is within the celebrated Connellsville coal belt, and is Hamill was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and came with his parents, John the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and 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 a large number of Indians, and that by her fortitude, she performed efficient the war he was snatched from his native country and widowed mother on the coast Wilkinson, in the American Pioneer, says the scalp bounty law was Captain advancement, wealth and culture, and who looked with scorn on the Dutch, who, assailants fought at a great advantage. perpetuate his name by giving it to their newly formed country! Pennsylvania, January 25, 1776 as a private in Captain James Taylors company, of the first court house at Greensburg. Samuel Kaylor, Sr., of Hempfield township, died April 1, 1833, in the 77th Brandywine, Germantown, Paoli and Bound Brook.
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