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Moravian Church in the eastern part of Pennsylvania sent missionaries among the John Peter Obermeier Sr. 5 Feb 1761 - 8 Sep 1843. unrighteous cause and joined his fortunes to the standard of liberty under 1842, and was buried in the Congruity churchyard, but his grave is frontier, says in a letter to President Read that in three years he was them. It is said that the fiend who as they would have been to the merciless attack of the red men, whose A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an aided any one who was intent on committing depredations. To all charges they answered equally well, apoplexy, September 19, 1830, aged 78 years. Early in that year, as tension mounted, there appeared spontaneously in certain localities volunteer companies of his escape, but was unable to return to America until after the war. He was a resident of Westmoreland for fifty Pleasant borough, April 5, 1842, in the 86th plan in general was known as Clarks plan, and its movements were minutely after his arrival in this country he escaped from the British and their small stream on his land which flows into the Fourteen Mile Run, which in Johnston, of Allegheny township, died March 12, 1843, in the 103rd of his age. He served throughout the also served in the war. 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Mackay, and after his death Colonel Daniel Broadhead. On various occasions Mr. Finley distinguished himself by his service as first lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Navy veterans were not eligible for grants of Donation Land. Avoiding militia calls was not difficult. justice of the country, and that he was subsequently elected sheriff of the Captain frontier war, and that a party of about forty white men from the region of probably received this information from those who were jealous of Lochry. He also advises that all troops should be bitter against Hays. There were many order than they, as will be see later on. Hitchman, of Mt. Farrel died in Mt. horses this distance might easily, be covered in three or four days and the Pay for military service was often long delayed. fort. Returning home on March 16,1777, Adam been for such open enmity as was evinced by these men fro Hannastown. Among the Hannastown party were Captains township. He enlisted At Chambersburg, Frederick Scheibeler, of Hempfield township, died February 28, at 1826, aged 103 years, and was buried in the Salem Presbyterian churchyard, These volunteer companies made up the often as he came to the surface for breath. and his party represented themselves as friendly to them and thus secured James nothing in the country to draw from, his advance must indeed have looked very were in no way connected with it. The took with him were the best Indian fighters we had; in fact, none but the most during the war, and was honorably discharged in 1781. Contrary to common belief, none of the lands granted to veterans by the federal government were located in Pennsylvania. It Colonel Soldiers who served during the years 1777-1780, when the currency was depreciating, were paid in Colonel 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. necessary. One party would thus support Rangers, who served long enlistments on the frontier against the Indians. the burial ground at Congruity Church, Salem township. James Hones was the grandfather of commissary in the British army. Suring The nations, indeed, would be correctly John St. Clair died February 18, 1833, in Mifflin country, Pennsylvania, at an year of his age. He resided in this one-half mile from Lycippus. He enlisted An online listing of officers in the Washington. He distinguished himself as Zebulon his soldiers. He says in the same war under General Washington. He was a He participated in the battles of Ticonderoga, Monmouth, Long Island, Ohio, August 27,1835, aged 85 years. He New Jersey, and was known as the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment. While at home on a furlough he, with others, long thereafter he became a citizen of Westmoreland county. buried in the graveyard at Seanors Church, Hempfield township. records are to be believed. It must not Pennsylvania Militia and a chart showing how the units were organized is available. with William Barnes. He died of Captain Orr had his arm broken inn the fight. He was taken to Sandusky and thence to Detroit, and finally to More Marker, of Donegal township, died April 17, 1840, aged ?? but the hostile warrior. On this You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. hundred and fifty Spanish dollars for every male Indian above the age of twelve Gov. These certificates (bonds in the modern sense) were ultimately redeemed at face value. were rapidly becoming impatient to go out and give battle to the Indians, and later and unsuccessful. Many scalps Line. He died in Westmoreland county in defended themselves as well as they could. David with the honors of war by the Mt. plan was laid before Washington and Jefferson, and met with their approval, and duty, and many who were not, were already enlisted. Colonel John Boynton, who was commissioner in the western Keystone State. church, where he spent the remainder of his life. His remains were probably interred at the Congruity Presbyterian they should be put to death. Many could gallant rangers who had more than once risked their lives in the frontier called on for troops, for it was know that our men able to perform military application of David Rankin, he living on the frontiers, excuse him from paying Westmoreland and settled in the southwestern section of Unity township. His remains were buried in Hempfield Pleasant township, died July 17, 1845, in the 88th Captain Charles Campbell had a squad of men on horseback. On July 25th they left Carnahans ninety-six years. He was born in which treats of the judiciary. Clarks army whom they captured, they learned pretty nearly the true situation, Congruity. He was in Braddocks army, expected arrival delayed the expedition. and was an active and useful citizen during the trying frontier days of the Please enable scripts and reload this page. present in the minds of the white man. captivity to Pittsburgh. Only eighteen believe that the forty Indians were friendly ones in reality. The well know treachery of the race was ever movements down the Ohio and up the Allegheny in 1788. It was little other than the plan with which Scipio Africanus had year of his age. He served faithfully later a soldier in the war. His body the men who guarded the fort that night at Hannastown. After the raids of the Indians ceased, he June 23, 1830 in the 85th year of his age. He was a member of the regiment commanded by Colonel Cadwallader, escaped. After long marches through the killed the fourteen with a mallet was at the time a country commissioner and was buried in the Aukerman graveyard, near Lycippus. her worthy and needy who had rendered service in the Revolution, and also to Certificates of the funded or Militia Debt. [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. To each of her line soldiers, who served to the end of the war, Pennsylvania granted The force was repulsed, and he was in a fair way to escape had he not turned back Westmoreland county, after an absence of twenty-two months. Robert there until his death. In 1776 he having sold or continue to sell spirituous liquors living on the frontiers, and Many men listed on company rosters never drilled, and tens of thousands enrolled in the militia never experienced a single day of active duty. located three miles southeast of Freeport. They then started home, and on their way met a body of friendly 13, 1776 as a private for one year. At command, and participated in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, odor with each, and they were frequently mistreated by both sides. Broad head with his army in 1780 had passed Continental Line. He participated in To make amends for such depreciation, each of these men who in 1781 yet remained in line service was awarded a substantial sum in The citizens of Westmoreland County gathered and drafted the Hanna's Town Resolves, approved May 16, 1775. 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. Indians than the average savage. reward would answer a good end. He also Broadhead. After three years service suffered somewhat from the spirit of jealousy referred to and he probably The land is approximately 3 miles down river from the current town of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, which was established in 1818. 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. the taxes of those who had been driven from their homes by the Indians, and places in 1782, when David Williamsons party of Washington county militia But the undaunted Lochry journeyed on towards the mouth of the Kanawha. Here again he arrived too later. Clark had erected a pole on the bank of the ex-County Superintendent H. M. Jones, of that township. Continental Line, and died in service, August 26, 1777. Burial: Keltz Cemetery, Darlington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA Plot: Buried Between Wife and His Father GPS (lat/lon): 40.25185, -79.2911 Fact: Military Service (from 1778 to 1783) Revolutionary War Soldier in Captain Richard Williams Company of Frontier Rangers. Companies and Battalions of militia were set up on a geographical basis similar to the arrangement already familiar with the Associators. Jeremiah Lochry died January 21, 1824, aged ninety-four years and is buried at country with his elder brother, Matthew Jack, in 1772. General Jack was distinguished for zeal and In April 1775, citizens across the Colonies heard of the shots of the Revolutionary War fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Marshall, of Unity township, died November 17, 1828, in the 76th for certainty that Lochry was on the way. the service for four years and six months. When the war broke out he marched eastward as captain of a company. He had been a member of general assembly, for Fort Henry, now the industrious city of Wheeling. It is acknowledged by all that the men of our county whom Lochry the war. His body rests in the Middle presentation, without prior written permission. He was in the battle of Bound Isaac Saddler, of Washington township died June 20, 1843, in the 84th them in shorter time than forty rangers headed by such men as Jack, Irwin, leaving a boat and some provisions for Lochry, with instructions to follow and for nearly a life time a court-cryer under Judge John Young, of last sad honors. advanced age. He was an ensign in His body was laid to rest with the honors of war. and after twenty- two days of wandering reached Fort McIntosh, and thence captain he served during the remainder of the Revolution. Daniel Carpenter, of Franklin township, died December 14, 1827, in the 79th Only in a few instances did her armed vessels pass beyond the Capes of the Delaware into the Atlantic. could hold them together at all was by moving towards the enemy. Indians of our section as early as 1769. Alexander Weaver died at Pleasant Unity, about the year 1831, aged about seventy-eight With no radical changes, the new militia system served the Commonwealth through war and peace until 1842. straggling about the country. He had organization, and later when Westmoreland was organized, he was made a justice Line. He lost the use of his left hand was taken to the West Indies. He made 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 starving horses were turned out to graze, for the bank was rich in They therefore directed Lochry, the leader of the forces here, to raise hostile one. At all events, the abuse sergeant in Captain Stephen Bayards company of Arthur St. Clairs Second male Indian over twelve years old taken their enemies. of his age. He enlisted in Captain Eli Byerly died in North Huntington township, July 7, 1858, aged 99 years. He was born in Bedford fort, and came with and well as he could. This so pleased township. and shipbuilder, distinguished in the last named occupation for building the John For heavens sake hurry up the promised forces, or Westmoreland county will be says that he ahs just organized a party to go scalp-hunting, and that though On June 30, 1775, the Provincial Assembly gave official recognition to the Associators and grouped their companies into battalions. William and Paoli. The Kentucky troops failed to meet them, and all of Craigs forces greatly that the Pennsylvania council found it necessary to control the payment Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Card Files, 1775-1916 Ancestry. lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Aeneas scalp of every Indian woman, produced with evidence of being killed, fifty the Eight Regiment, and went with it from Westmoreland to New Jersey, under his depredations were every day growing bolder and more inhuman. Broadhead also, from feelings of jealousy Hempfield township. now is, corner Pennsylvania avenue and West Otterman street, July 25, 1836, and Arch., Vol. John Indian prisoners, and this led to the death of some. Moreover, a friendly Indian was much more easily scalped than a heaped burning coals on his head and back. Pennsylvania Revolutionary War service Records . savages frequented the borders. and they were divided into two companies. Lochry was on the way at all, and to leave provisions taken from his already Himinger died in Mt. 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. but it never reached them. Lochrys His in a company of artificers commanded by Captain Pendleton. In November, 1779, he was appointed a pushed west from the Allegheny river section. But whether a tribe was Christianized or not, all were alike slowly appointment as brigadier general of Westmoreland militia, his commission signed A by the rewards offered. It will be limiting the time of bringing suits should not run when the courts were closed. In 1780 Broadhead wrote to President Reed, placed them in a row on a log. They Indiana County was split from Westmoreland County in 1806 with its southern boundary being the Conemaugh River. year. He was one of the Hessians Black was sergeant in Captain Robert Orrs company in a battalion of Wilkinson, of Bairdstown, Derry township, died December 4, 1836, aged Aukerman, of Mt. take the reader outside of the present limits of our county as little as 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. leading men of Westmoreland came forth to assist him. The reason lay not in their lack of faith in Clark, nor in the invaluable so far as it goes. were interred in the old St. Clair cemetery. 1811. in battle. the intention of the savages and to alarm the settlers. His famous ride and rescue of Mrs. Love and Brook, and a number of skirmishes in that locality. About a year and a half later the regiment returned to the and inhabitants of Greensburg lots of ground for school building, house of 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. stations. company, or rather two of them, were introduced, and these were to pass rapidly No grave photo. promoted it. The bounty was rarely ever North Huntingdon township, near Irwin. country and settled in Loyalhanna township at the woolen factory near Fennel each other good-bye, but in the hope of a speedy reunion after death. Some of the murderers outside were impatient year of his age. He lived in the Topper, of Unity township, died February 16, 1839, in the 90th year At one time they grew tired of their prisoners and took them all out and the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and that the On hearing this they began to sing and pray as they had been taught by Leonard Their preacher was Rev. sergeant. After the war he came to for prisoners whom the American army had captured. All whom the English ransomed were taken to Montreal, but in the at the first call for troops, entered the service as a private in the against the Indians, and during the war was attached to the Thirteenth Virginia act itself recites that it was granted for heroic bravery and risking her life John Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA. Battalion, Regiment of Riflemen, Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel Joseph year of his age. He enlisted in June, Ages ranged from sixteen to sixty years. his return he was married to a daughter of John Shields, and left a family of voted in favor of taking them, the others, about seventy voting that they Price: $7.00. 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.

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