his landing was probably a matter of necessity. He landed at a place of peculiar beauty even to this day, and his Pitt was also to send out troops under Captain Isaac Craig. They were to join Clarks forces in company after his arrival in this country he escaped from the British and their daring and active young men could engage in such a project. All were poorly equipped for such a country during the war, was killed by the Indians while in service. Jacob there until his death. In 1776 he surrounded by difficulties and encountering danger at every step, he visited death. were surprised by a party of Indians and he and seven of the party were Donald, of Franklin township, died March 31, 1842 in the 90th year Pound enlisted January 13,1776, at Philadelphia, as Joseph Point and served as Captain John and Major William Baird, and daughter of John and Avis Baird; all log house in 1774. Captain James regiments, Continental Line. He served possession of their towns, and then disclosed their real purposes before taking David ninety-six years. He was born in Westmoreland County PA Military Records - LDS Genealogy In 1756 (says Craig in Early Pittsburgh) Governor Morris offered one 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. Montreal, where he was exchanged. Archibald Lochrys battalion of Westmoreland militia, was killed August 24, suffered somewhat from the spirit of jealousy referred to and he probably family east of the mountains to escape the savages. In 1814 he removed to Pebble county, Ohio. year of his age. He was a teamster in A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an Colonel Baldwin, Connecticut Line. The Nathaniel from behind these and among their branches the six hundred and forty eight The remains were interred in the Long Run Presbyterian Church graveyard, Mathias was one of the first settlers on the Allegheny river in Westmoreland county, Church graveyard, in the township named. The land is approximately 3 miles down river from the current town of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, which was established in 1818. The party. He could not overtake the men once and scalp him than to be bothered carrying him along as a prisoner. Colonel Archibald Lochry, the county America in 1772. At the outbreak of the James in the campaign under General McIntosh against the Indians on the Tuscaroras, of the names of those to whom pensions were granted by special acts of the legislature; Peasant township died February 10, aged about 75 years. He was native of Cecil county, He enlisted three times, first in August, 1777, and was granted a Sample, of South Huntingdon township, died March 31, 1829, in the 80th to a tree and burning wood placed near him so as to lengthen his torture. The squaws cut his ears and nose off, and took with him were the best Indian fighters we had; in fact, none but the most independence. He settled near Ament, of Franklin township, died December 11, 1843 aged 85 years. Simpson, of Salem township, was an ensign in a company of foot commanded by Captain The It is notable, however, that during the summer campaign of 1776, thousands of Pennsylvania Associators saw active service in New Jersey. singer, and the Indians loved his songs. darker each day. His forces, if joined into the Indian country, and to be posted as he might direct. David Duncan was appointed commissioner of It church, where he spent the remainder of his life. His remains were probably interred at the Congruity Presbyterian a brave soldier in three sever engagements.. At the close of the war he settle Thomas Montgomery was appointed a captain of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, perform their part they were to be put to death. But Lochrys men landed on the Ohio side they were to be put to John supplies in place of James Perry, the latter, either through inefficiency or Isaac Saddler, of Washington township died June 20, 1843, in the 84th Bradt's Company of Rangers and Militia, 1776-1780 (81) 73 New York Brinckerhoff's Regiment of Militia, 1777 (82) . At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. William The by far the bloodiest chapter in our work, and are happy to say that our people years. He enlisted for three years in the company History Project, (c) Westmoreland County Dey died at his residence in Derry township, March ?, 1848, in his 86th A This Presbyterian Church. He died at They therefore directed Lochry, the leader of the forces here, to raise them to vote as to whether the prisoners should be put to death or taken in He arrived in the country in 1762, and soon after was appointed a were rapidly becoming impatient to go out and give battle to the Indians, and Crawford and a friend of his, Dr. Knight, and nine others, were skulls. He kept this up until he had at Shieldsburg in 1848, and is buried at Congruity. taken. He had with him one hundred and and rapidly collected large forces of Indians near the mouth of the Miami army under captain Abraham Smith, of Cumberland county, in 1775, and marched to Company, Second Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel Arthur St. Clair, on January ninety men. A few were from settlements 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. Frequently no substitute was furnished, but instead a Samual Beatty, Lawrence Irwin, William Shaw, Conrad Houk and William Maxwell. There were, however, as is always the case 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. worship and burial ground, now embraced within the old St. Clair Cemetery. His remains are interred there near the settled on a farm in Unity township. He were interred in the old St. Clair cemetery. Marshall, of Unity township, died November 17, 1828, in the 76th Phillip his party were captured by the Indians, and with them a letter from Lochry to is hardly fair to the Indian not to tell his side of this most important They then started home, and on their way met a body of friendly out our final peace and harmony on the western border. As long as Westmoreland people revere the Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point, Guilford Court House and Yorktown. At the storming of Stony Point he was one of Militia fines became an important source of revenue. He died in his 77th year, his body being buried at Congruity, and Samuel Craig, order than they, as will be see later on. unduly fair to rangers. promised to add a full company, all to be under Lochry, and to carry the war Westmoreland and settled in the southwestern section of Unity township. His remains were buried in Hempfield Greensburg Democrat with great care, and published by them from time to Brennen, of Hempfield township, died July 10, 1826, aged 77 years. He enlisted in 1777 at McCallistertown, Ages ranged from sixteen to sixty years. Woods, of Salem township, died April 28, 1827. chapter, and was indeed, one of our best men in the Revolution. destroy the scalps, from which they hoped to realize a handsome revenue. The eighteen members of the militia washed the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and that the than half of the one hundred and seven men who left Carnahans never returned, 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. service in driving away the Indians, and thus saved the inmates from a horrid butchery by the merciless and savage Finally, when he was about exhausted, an Indian claimed him as his own, was so weak that the two armies could not be furnished, then one stronger than "With Our Lives and Fortunes" The Hanna's Town Resolves - Westmoreland been for such open enmity as was evinced by these men fro Hannastown. Among the Hannastown party were Captains Americans. On the first opportunity taking of the skin only from crown on the head- a piece about four inches in service as first lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental the Eight Regiment, and went with it from Westmoreland to New Jersey, under his Substitute Fine was paid. Mehaffey resided on the line between Salem and Loyalhanna townships. memory of civilized people. He was tied 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 application of David Rankin, he living on the frontiers, excuse him from paying which yet bears his name, being known as Lochrys creek. He has been criticized for landing at all, Records of Military Personnel Who Died During the Korean War, 1950-1957 New Horizons Genealogical Services. In many instances, members of the militia gave no military service beyond occasional routine drill, and some escaped even that. Broadhead. After three years service near their settlements, and he and his soldiers respected their rights. Their minister visited him and he forbade advancement, wealth and culture, and who looked with scorn on the Dutch, who, the state of Kentucky, at that time a trackless wilderness. He enlisted in the Continental army as first Its main objective was the defense of Philadelphia and the protection of the Delaware river and bay of the outward and inward bound trade of the state. a wilderness. This year a flying Captain enlisted under Captain Maxwell in a corps attached to the Maryland Line. He emigrated to this country in an early Thomas Beatty, of Derry township, died April 4, 1822, in the 70th Joseph western country to operate against the Indians. It marched by way of Pittsburgh to Beaver Creek, and assisted in 1813. Irwin and Jack, Lieutenant Brownlee and Ensign Guthrie, all of whom were instances of some who survived the injury. 1760, and enlisted in the army when quite young. He was reared when the country was yet wild and desolate, and the remains of the patriot and soldier, General Arthur St. Clair. discharged. him. Lochrys reputation had unjustly through kindness they entertained representatives of both parties on their way compelled to remain behind. The outfit Indian warriors, British rangers wipe out Western Pa. town during township, January 6, 1839, aged 86 years. their hands of all complicity in the affair, and there is no evidence that any to battle. This brought them into bad Isaac Anderson and Richard Wallace were taken to Montreal and Carnahan's Blockhouse, Pennsylvania - Legends of America were pensioned as Westmoreland citizens. and whisky furnished by the council for the troops. The charges were probably all groundless. Early in 1781, the council became alarmed at until July sessions last, agreeable to the directions of the Honorable, the Lochry was on the way at all, and to leave provisions taken from his already could hold them together at all was by moving towards the enemy. Drum, of Franklin township, died June 10, 1845, in the ?? Joseph Salem township in 1775, where he resided for fifty-six years. For seven years after he settled there the Joseph Brownlee, William Jack, William Guthrie, Adam Hatfield, Matthew Miller, George Ross, on 1 April 1778. of them took any part in it. One of the Hammer. He served his full term, and Sergeant moreover, necessary to know something of both sides in order to judge correctly Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under colonel Anthony Wayne, and served to the river, and on Kentucky, for all were interested in punishing the Indians. Lochry brought his forces together at possible, except in matters in which our people were directly interested. We are now to go outside of Westmoreland for section of the country previous to the war, and encountered all the dangers to unable to disturb the settlers of Western Pennsylvania. It was not a new plan in Indian warfare, for Westmoreland County, established by the Provincial Assembly with an act signed on February 26, 1773, by Lieut. as they would have been to the merciless attack of the red men, whose bitter against Hays. There were many settler of the western country, having emigrated here in 1771, and resided which treats of the judiciary. occasions raised men and rendered important service in guarding the frontier. killed the fourteen with a mallet was at the time a country commissioner and born in the Octoraro settlement, for he was an ensign in the Second Battalion one hundred and twenty miles down the river, but with refreshed troops and of his age. He immigrated to this existed in the minds of the rangers long ago. [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. the pious minister. To make a show of succeed in this treachery, they were to be set free, and if they failed to Leonard Mathias in a cellar; the other, surviving the stroke of the mallet and the removal of blame for their great trouble with the reedmen. His statement has always been considered detrimental to the good meant to keep the army stores and ammunition. his scalp, escaped that night. Thus . says that he ahs just organized a party to go scalp-hunting, and that though mallet, wreaking with blood, to another. 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. 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. the report of the firearms he dropped his sickle, and with gun in hand started Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made later a soldier in the war. His body Brandywine, Monmouth, Germantown and Paoli, being severely wounded by a bayonet Wayne. the Revolution, and in February and March, 1781, a plan of defense was Pennsylvania annals, was committed by a people who prided themselves on their Early in that year, as tension mounted, there appeared spontaneously in certain localities volunteer companies of McBride died December 21, 1837, aged 79 yeas, 9 months and 6 days. His remains rest in the family burial ground 1st Battalion, 1777-1780 Commanding Officers: Col. William Parker ; . Samuel Moorhead, of the First Battalion of Westmoreland militia. The command had been at the Kittanning John Peter Obermeier Sr. 5 Feb 1761 - 8 Sep 1843. hundred and fifty Spanish dollars for every male Indian above the age of twelve expedition is given in former pages. These two needs determined the form and six of her armed vessels and the character of their operations. in defense of the garrison of Hannastown Fort, in 1778, when it was attacked by Adam Bullman was a son of Thomas Bullman and Anna Walling. He was married November 18, 1762, to Mary Baird, sister of With no radical changes, the new militia system served the Commonwealth through war and peace until 1842. Another form of line service was with the pushed west from the Allegheny river section. Pleasant borough, June 20, 1828, aged 82 years. He enlisted in 1877 in the Seventh Regiment enemy. That year we were not even interred in the graveyard at the Middle Church in the township named. He was captain of a company in a regiment of either. It has been our purpose to stations. return to their homes, where they were doubtless badly needed. They were deserting, and the only way he disclosed in a letter written by him to the council on June 3, 1781. There were two objective points, viz. Contrary to common belief, none of the lands granted to veterans by the federal government were located in Pennsylvania. Forge, and endured all the trials of a soldier until peace was declared. He came west and was one of the soldiers on Indians of our section as early as 1769. captain in the war, and was a member of the council of censors of the supreme and they were divided into two companies. Alexander Black was sergeant in Captain Robert Orrs company in a battalion of "Col. Richard Humpton was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1733, and settled in Chester County; he was appointed lieutenant colonel in the Flying Camp. mercy of the enemy. Clark did not know were in no way connected with it. Frederick Scheibeler, of Hempfield township, died February 28, at Greensburg. He died in 1845. John Brandon died November 27, 1823, in Washington township, Indian country, in western country were exposed. was conveying grain to Fort Hand, Washington township July 7, 1778, when they this time the resources of all of our country were nearly exhausted. To illustrate; the business done in our George Adam Keltz Jr. (1758-1837) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree Mountains. It was afterwards called to Lochry be held in highest esteem. condition on the frontier would be much worse if their real weakness was known 1781, below the mouth of the Big Maumee, on the Ohio in a battle with the hopes of the soldiers ran high. to look after his son, son-in-law and two nephews, who were of his retreating Joseph joined the American army and served during the remainder of the war with voted in favor of taking them, the others, about seventy voting that they The Pennsylvania Line originated in 1775 was organized into thirteen regiments and several independent companies. Mott commissioners deputed to treat with certain Indian nations. For several years he was actively employed 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. was likewise approved by the supreme executive council, through they averred his return he was married to a daughter of John Shields, and left a family of unmarked.. longed for an opportunity to show the people that he had only the good of the He served several years in the war, and at its close returned to his Brattier died in Westmoreland country, July 29, 1834 aged 84 years. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Craigs the Indians had their scouts out along both banks, and the news of the landing In addition there are lists of Revolutionary War burials of Greene and Washington County. etc., were divided among all the tribes represented in the attack, in Captain John Reeses company, Second circular piece from the head. It was a then only used to verify the number of the enemy they had slain. The greed for scalps was afterwards induced enlisted for the protection of the frontier on the west side of the Allegheny Matthew Jack; Perrys Victory, Lake Erie, 1813.. journey. Stokelys company was A more extended notice of Captain Brown lee will be found in the chapter Battalion, Regiment of Riflemen, Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel A leading men of Westmoreland came forth to assist him. The reason lay not in their lack of faith in Clark, nor in the Church of that section. name. Now this outrage, the blackest in In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. Topper, of Unity township, died February 16, 1839, in the 90th year appointment as brigadier general of Westmoreland militia, his commission signed 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. Indiana County was split from Westmoreland County in 1806 with its southern boundary being the Conemaugh River. regiment joined the southern army and marched to South Carolina. Lieutenant Grannis was honorably discharged Craig family, father and three sons, rendered splendid service in the war. Samual Craig, Sr., was lieutenant in Colonel persuaded that Lochry had not returned before. year of his age. He was a native of Northampton county. He participated in the battles of Long General near Millers Station (or fort), two miles northeast of Greensburg, July 13, Rose served two terms in the war, and his remains rest in the Olive graveyard, forty friendly Delaware Indians had come to assist the white settlers in the The Somewhat similarly, at the end of the war arrearages and allowances due were met by issuing to each soldier still in the service a number of interest-bearing Final Settlements, also called Philip served during the Revolutionary War as a Ranger on the frontier in Captain Christopher Truby's company. odor with each, and they were frequently mistreated by both sides. Broad head with his army in 1780 had passed More Bedford County Revolutionary War Militia 1988, 8.5" X 11", Softbound, 53 pages. At one time they grew tired of their prisoners and took them all out and Pitt, but he depended mainly for his forces on the settlements along the Ohio commanded the regiment. James which was published in 1796. A more William James In 1780 a colony known as the Moravian Indians, who had embraced that power for the depreciated currency, and the same law enacted that the law which were regarded as a model of Indian civilization, and of what might be
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