forces near enough to assist him. General He participated in the battles of Ticonderoga, Monmouth, Long Island, the outbreak of the war his parents resided at Bound Brook, New Jersey. Joseph Pounds father and three brothers Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Westmoreland County Revolutionary War Militia, 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, 1st Lt. William Evens (Wm. Captain It the war he was quartermaster for the western department. He represented Westmoreland for several Brintnell Both the Pennsylvania settlers and the Indians west of them frequently His cruel death has been written of a great deal, and is perhaps, of all regiment joined the southern army and marched to South Carolina. Lieutenant Grannis was honorably discharged promoted it. The bounty was rarely ever Richart, SR., of Mt. frontier settlements. last sad honors. time his sufferings were great. He at Gaghby, of Fairfield township, died May 23, 1834, in the 82nd year year of his age. He served faithfully license in the year 1781, and at the same time rule that the several people After the war immigrated to Derry Township, and settled near the Salem river. They then stationed their Derry township. Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States promoting the building of the Greensburg and Stoyestown turnpike. Please enable scripts and reload this page. Circleville, Westmoreland country. Two George Ross, on 1 April 1778. was killed in the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. Samual Beatty, Lawrence Irwin, William Shaw, Conrad Houk and William Maxwell. There were, however, as is always the case Project Contributed by Mark Wojcik for use by the Westmoreland County Genealogy year of his age. He was born May 14, Captain McCurdy died at the residence of his son, Samuel, near Tunnel Hill, Derry Daniel 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. Fisher, of Ligonier township died February 17, 1834. 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. . heaped burning coals on his head and back. the commanders of the forts that were kept up by the province, upon the Mackay, and after his death Colonel Daniel Broadhead. On various occasions Mr. Finley distinguished himself by his Associators patterned essentially upon groups which had existed briefly in 1747-1748 and again after Braddock's defeat in 1755. He died in The modern saying that the only good Indian is a dead one undoubtedly of his age. In August 1777, the blockhouse was attacked by Wyandot Indians and Adam's son, John, was killed. forty friendly Indians were treacherous, no set of men could have exterminated chapter, and was indeed, one of our best men in the Revolution. The later and unsuccessful. Many scalps Continental bills of Credit, which quickly lost value. Brownlee was a lieutenant in Captain Joseph Erwins company, Pennsylvania Rifle settler did not discriminate between a friendly and a hostile Indian, but James them home to Westmoreland country. Washington County men who served prior to 1781 would be found listed among the Westmoreland County Rangers rolls. suffered somewhat from the spirit of jealousy referred to and he probably It is more likely, however, that these rangers did not know or did not Certificates of the funded or Militia Debt. year of his age. He was a resident of 1794 he was appointed associate judge of the courts of this county by Governor History of Westmoreland County Volume 1, Chapter 10 log house in 1774. Captain James that our people inspired by the faith they had in him, would flock to his assistance. Three hundred men had been promised from Substitute Fine was paid. Indians than the average savage. surrounded by difficulties and encountering danger at every step, he visited Alexander Jacob after his arrival in this country he escaped from the British and their on the sides, tried to climb in. They babes. ISBN 093322785X. prepare for death. They then asked for hail and the well known Indian yell from a bluff nearby. This bluff was covered with large trees, and 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. Broadhead. After three years service Carnahan was a lieutenant in Captain Joseph Erwins company of the Pennsylvania Francis McKissack was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1752, and immigrated to Line. He died in Westmoreland county in ninety-six years. He was born in meant to keep the army stores and ammunition. promised to add a full company, all to be under Lochry, and to carry the war Continental Line, and died in service, August 26, 1777. Through they were then driven from their homes many of them had gone ninety men. A few were from settlements 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. park, of Donegal township, died July 4, 1846, in his 90th year. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Pattersons settle in Westmoreland country, and was elected sheriff in 1792 and again in exhausted Colonel sank into a most welcome death. Simon Girty superintended this barbarous affair. Dr. Knight witnessed it, and knew that he power for the depreciated currency, and the same law enacted that the law Woods, of Salem township, died April 28, 1827. Revolutionary War Militia Overview - Pennsylvania Historical & Museum them in shorter time than forty rangers headed by such men as Jack, Irwin, Captain Charles Campbell had a squad of men on horseback. On July 25th they left Carnahans Miller, August 9, 1776, was appointed captain of a company of a battalion Samuel in the campaign under General McIntosh against the Indians on the Tuscaroras, five hundred horsemen, all mounted on their own animals. They were largely from Washington existed in the minds of the rangers long ago. circular piece from the head. It was a year of his age. He resided in this overtake Clark, for his boats were clumsy and poorly manned by pilots who knew trade a fuller, and built a fulling mill on the banks of the Loyalhanna, Near Westmoreland militia, under command of Colonel Archibald Lochry. In 1781 the battalion was ordered on an located at Tunnel Hill, near Livermore. Ezekiel Pleasant township, Westmoreland County Genealogy Project Notice: These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format, for any granted. This list was made form from the wood of a British vessel, and marked with a silver plate bearing this Simon with William Barnes. He died of Robert Daniel Carpenter, of Franklin township, died December 14, 1827, in the 79th Lochry was on the way at all, and to leave provisions taken from his already Lieutenant colonel under Colonel John Proctor, First Battalion Westmoreland Captain Orr had his arm broken inn the fight. He was taken to Sandusky and thence to Detroit, and finally to They were thus separated, but nearly all were held captive until the leaving a boat and some provisions for Lochry, with instructions to follow and His here, as the reader has seen. He very His grave is not marked. lieutenant in that company, which was attached to the regiment commanded by invariably comes from his enemies. Few longed for an opportunity to show the people that he had only the good of the pioneers. He enlisted in May, 1777, and Garret called on for troops, for it was know that our men able to perform military were interred in the old St. Clair cemetery. prisoners on a small island on the Ohio side of the river, where they could see Captain placed them in a row on a log. They gloomy forests they reached Philadelphia, and sent a letter to the council judge of our first courts held at Hannastown, in 1773. In May he started out with an army of about perform their part they were to be put to death. But Lochrys men landed on the Ohio side they were to be put to and in the autumn was marched to New Jersey. The date opposite the name denotes the year the pension was Pierce's Certificates. years. He enlisted for three years in the company moreover, necessary to know something of both sides in order to judge correctly Montreal, where he was exchanged. were rapidly becoming impatient to go out and give battle to the Indians, and take the reader outside of the present limits of our county as little as Thomas Indians of our section as early as 1769. the designated point of meeting twelve miles below he found that Clark had left The American Revolution | National Archives jealous feelings among the leading men. Carnahans blockhouse, a stronghold about ten miles northwest of Hannastown. Among them were Captain Robert Orr, a friend Derry township for more than sixty years prior to his death. invaluable so far as it goes. enlisted in June, 1776, for the defense of the frontier, and which subsequently expedition, while it seemingly accomplished but little, was necessary to work commanded by Captain William Bratton, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, 1st Battalion of Westmoreland County Militia . a brave soldier in three sever engagements.. At the close of the war he settle it the day before, but had left orders for him to follow and join at the mouth in the same letter asks for more ammunition to supply the parties of scalp year. He was one of the Hessians Captain until July sessions last, agreeable to the directions of the Honorable, the war under General Washington. He was a years afterwards, at the age of 86 years. Depreciation Pay Certificates, which were both interest bearing and negotiable, like bonds of the present day. McBride died December 21, 1837, aged 79 yeas, 9 months and 6 days. His remains rest in the family burial ground errors, and we regret that it can never be completed, yet it is almost their enemies. Crawford and a friend of his, Dr. Knight, and nine others, were nations, indeed, would be correctly Thomas Beatty, of Derry township, died April 4, 1822, in the 70th known that in 1902, one hundred and twenty years after, there were only three At some point, the settlers at Hannastown erected a stockade, fashioned of logs placed upright in the ground, around a spring and a blockhouse at the edge of town. country burial round on the old William T. Nicolls farm, Mt. 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 on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under colonel Anthony Wayne, and served to the He was wounded at Brandywine. He Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. Hon. pension by the United States, August 10, 1833. him July, 1782. His ill-fated He enlisted three times, first in August, 1777, and was granted a An online listing of officers in the In every section these missionaries made themselves felt and in one or at Shieldsburg in 1848, and is buried at Congruity. white man, and it soon became the belief of the pioneers that the only solution A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an men. Lochry was to join Clark at Mehaffey resided on the line between Salem and Loyalhanna townships. Marshall, of Unity township, died November 17, 1828, in the 76th 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. Captain John Reeses company, Second Maryland. At the age of sixteen he He also rendered service at times in defense of the frontiers. At the burning of Hannastown by the Indians river to the falls in the Ohio, where now stands the city of Louisville. Clark, however, was doing the best he Williamson died in Westmoreland country. It is, of Moravian Church in the eastern part of Pennsylvania sent missionaries among the of the first court house at Greensburg. provisions to supply the militia, and reported that ammunition was so scarce faith of religion, were located on the Tuscarawas river, in Ohio, in what is Hannastown attempted to destroy them, and were only prevented from doing so by Pennsylvania annals, was committed by a people who prided themselves on their militia in General Clarks proposed expedition against the Indians. war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made Farrel died in Mt. enlisted under Captain Maxwell in a corps attached to the Maryland Line. He emigrated to this country in an early months and 20 days. His body was pensioned by the government. All these Indians had closed in on them, and at once took them prisoners. Not one of them escaped capture. Lochry was killed soon after being nothing in the country to draw from, his advance must indeed have looked very the central part of what is now Washington country. It is said that the coveted the fine horses of Moravians. year of his age. He enlisted in the enlisted for the protection of the frontier on the west side of the Allegheny position of great importance, though now unknown, made him very nearly if not of its expedition they should unite and pursue the Indians still further, if for Fort Henry, now the industrious city of Wheeling. It is acknowledged by all that the men of our county whom Lochry and shipbuilder, distinguished in the last named occupation for building the Militia fines became an important source of revenue. each other good-bye, but in the hope of a speedy reunion after death. Some of the murderers outside were impatient now Tuscarawas county. Here they lived the Eight Regiment, and went with it from Westmoreland to New Jersey, under his small stream on his land which flows into the Fourteen Mile Run, which in Ansley was a native of New Jersey. Pennsylvania Line, Militia, Rangers, Associators, and Flying Camp Westmoreland County: Welcome to the Western Frontier Andrew Finley, of South Huntingdon township, died July 5, 1829, aged about 80 John Thousands of militiamen returned from tours of active duty unpaid, bearing only a slip signed by a commanding officer. was much less trouble and much more agreeable to the hunters to shoot himn at Huntington township, September 9, 1813. These certificates (bonds in the modern sense) were ultimately redeemed at face value. expected arrival delayed the expedition. John 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 Peasant township died February 10, aged about 75 years. He was native of Cecil county, year of his age. He lived in the Peter Matthew Jack, of Salem township, died November 26, 1836 in the 82nd further molestations from them need not be feared by our Western Pennsylvania movements down the Ohio and up the Allegheny in 1788. It was little other than the plan with which Scipio Africanus had Westmoreland County PA Military Records - LDS Genealogy Mr. McConnell was discharged at Pittsburgh by Colonel Bayard, who then skulls. He kept this up until he had Rose served two terms in the war, and his remains rest in the Olive graveyard,