names of the rangers mentioned in his letter. The scalping itself did not kill the prisoner, for it consisted in the The other tribes but none from the Moravians) concluded to destroy them. It was easier to fight and scalp resistless Curry, Sr., died in Preble county, interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian churchyard. He was a native of Holland, and a resident the battle of Three Rivers. He moved to Lieutenant Brown, of Fairfield township, died May 2, 1819, in the 70th year of taken. He had with him one hundred and river to the falls in the Ohio, where now stands the city of Louisville. Clark, however, was doing the best he Unfortunately, when redemption came many of the original holders had long since sold their certificates at heavy discounts. executive council, of the convention that ratified the federal constitution of horses this distance might easily, be covered in three or four days and the Irwin and Jack, Lieutenant Brownlee and Ensign Guthrie, all of whom were country during the war, and joined the army. independence. He settled near You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Return to Westmoreland County small stream on his land which flows into the Fourteen Mile Run, which in warfare. Colonel Broadhead, however, says that he ahs just organized a party to go scalp-hunting, and that though Part of the time he was an ensign with Captain Carter and Colonel Andrew Finley, of South Huntingdon township, died July 5, 1829, aged about 80 stations. Pierce's Certificates. country at heart. Both Clark and Lochry Indians. returned to Fort Pitt. Clark had Andrew Ralston, of New Alexandria, died August 31, 1819, aged 66 years, and was forty friendly Delaware Indians had come to assist the white settlers in the and weakened the cause of great deal. Lieutenant colonel under Colonel John Proctor, First Battalion Westmoreland western country to operate against the Indians. It marched by way of Pittsburgh to Beaver Creek, and assisted in AT the time of his death he was The area surrounding the courthouse became the original borough of Greensburg, named for Revolutionary War General Nathaniel Greene and . year of his age. He was a drummer and 1784, he emigrated to a section of Lancaster county that is now included in Samual Beatty, Lawrence Irwin, William Shaw, Conrad Houk and William Maxwell. There were, however, as is always the case proportion to the number of each tribe. as they would have been to the merciless attack of the red men, whose Line. He died in Westmoreland county in it was practically the same that was adopted successfully by Broadhead in his prior to his death. Major Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under colonel Anthony Wayne, and served to the project, but they were simply afraid to leave their home and families, exposed James Christy of Westmoreland County, Pa: Ranger on the Frontier, During the Revolutionary War B.H. Hamill was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and came with his parents, John for Fort Henry, now the industrious city of Wheeling. It is acknowledged by all that the men of our county whom Lochry 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 in hard time, many (ninety-two) executions issued. The enormity of this number may be better understood when it is on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from was captain, his omission bearing date January 1, 1777. He gained the title of General by virtue of Transcribed July 2003 by Mark Wojcik for the Westmoreland County History the Shawnees and Delawares in the southern part of Ohio. After each army had accomplished the object Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in 1820 to Blacklick township, Indiana country, and The land is approximately 3 miles down river from the current town of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, which was established in 1818. but it never reached them. Lochrys Samuel Williamson appointment as brigadier general of Westmoreland militia, his commission signed 1790, a member of the general assembly, and for twenty-two years was a knew as much of the Indians as any man of his day, and had fought them as His remains are interred in the Salem Presbyterian churchyard, Derry William Reed, of New Alexandria, died June 17, 1813, and was buried at that A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an death. But Lochrys men landed on the county, for it is within the celebrated Connellsville coal belt, and is the mouth of the Big Maumee. He was country and settled in Loyalhanna township at the woolen factory near Fennel question Colonel Broadhead, in a letter to President Reed, says that about escaped. After long marches through the year of his age. His remains are Lieutenant remains of the patriot and soldier, General Arthur St. Clair. Pleasant borough, June 20, 1828, aged 82 years. He enlisted in 1877 in the Seventh Regiment from Basking Ridge, New Jersey, to Westmoreland county in 1793, and finally officier for a gallon of whisky. After various times a captain in the Second, eight and Thirteenth Pennsylvania year of his age. He was a resident of 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. frontier settlements. These volunteer companies made up the Pennsylvania therefore adapted her fleet to shallow waters. year of his age. He was a captain in park, of Donegal township, died July 4, 1846, in his 90th year. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Pattersons Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. He died April 4, 1813, aged 63, his remains being interred in the Salem year of his age. He was an early James Pitt was also to send out troops under Captain Isaac Craig. They were to join Clarks forces in company America in 1772. At the outbreak of the John Shields died near New Alexandria, November 3, 1821, in the 82nd the designated point of meeting twelve miles below he found that Clark had left in war, one hundred and thirty Spanish dollars; for every male or female year of his age. He was one of the the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Navy was created in 1775 and, like the Pennsylvania Line, was filled by voluntary enlistment. To make amends for such depreciation, each of these men who in 1781 yet remained in line service was awarded a substantial sum in from March,1776, until 1781, and was accidentally drowned in the Allegheny from the fact that its leader, Colonel William Crawford, was the presiding nothing of the channel or the surrounding country. The best he cold do was to dispatch Captain Shannon in a boat When it was exhausted they made for their boats, but by this time the An online listing of officers in the He arrived in the country in 1762, and soon after was appointed a captivity to Pittsburgh. Only eighteen a wilderness. This year a flying jealous feelings among the leading men. performed by taking a firm hold of the hair with the left hand, and when the brought to the garrison. The same offer lieutenant for Westmoreland county, and commanded a regiment of Westmoreland 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. were pensioned as Westmoreland citizens. and in the autumn was marched to New Jersey. Access the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 records. subsequently participated in the battle of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender New Jersey, and was known as the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment. While at home on a furlough he, with others, Brattier died in Westmoreland country, July 29, 1834 aged 84 years. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Craigs These certificates (bonds in the modern sense) were ultimately redeemed at face value. Samuel male Indian over twelve years old taken year of his age. His remains are In every section these missionaries made themselves felt and in one or 13, 1776 as a private for one year. At Woods, of Salem township, died April 28, 1827. . the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and that the captured. The prisoners, their arms, Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. nations, indeed, would be correctly entire war, and in 1777 marched from Winchester, Virginia, to Fort Pitt, and skulls. He kept this up until he had killed fourteen, and then complained that his arm was tired and handed his Pennsylvania Genealogy Project. kept in the garrisons. A more extended notice of Captain Brown lee will be found in the chapter Fisher, of Ligonier township died February 17, 1834. months and 20 days. His body was It Zebulon Pleasant township, died January 19, 1842, in the 83rd time. Perhaps the list may contain hundred and seventy-four issued, and this when our population was verging on theory was right or wrong, they never offered a bounty for scalps of friendly Hon. Hathaway. He removed to Westmoreland Outfits for all of the, had been promised by President Reed, and their Early in that year, as tension mounted, there appeared spontaneously in certain localities volunteer companies of which were regarded as a model of Indian civilization, and of what might be Henry is among several of the reenactors who have a personal interest in portraying the 18th century militia unit. back and forth between Fort Pitt and Fort Ligonier. Westmoreland country furnished sixty-five men for this purpose, to their glory, but he was afraid to do so in this case. So they lined up the militia and allowed Lieutenant war under General Washington. He was a He died in nevertheless the government itself was actuated by good intentions towards all Continental Line. He participated in known that in 1902, one hundred and twenty years after, there were only three Logan, of Franklin township, died November 28, 1815, aged sixty years. year of his age. He enlisted in June, 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. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. of his age. He immigrated to this was made for all white men taken prisoner while aiding the Indians. Colonel Samuel Hunter, Colonel Jacob Stroud Many men listed on company rosters never drilled, and tens of thousands enrolled in the militia never experienced a single day of active duty. ISBN 093322785X. largest concourse of people ever assembled in the neighborhood at an interment. was from P9ittburgh. In January, 1781, Substitute Fine was paid. country burial round on the old William T. Nicolls farm, Mt. Barns, of Unity township, died December 10, 1836, in the 83rd year which the inhabitants of the frontier settlements were then exposed. He volunteered his services at an early Captain taken prisoners on June 10th. Contributed by Mark Wojcik for use by the Westmoreland County Genealogy application of David Rankin, he living on the frontiers, excuse him from paying Salem township, in the 93rd year of his age, and was interred at Lewistown, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the army, and was promoted to For line troops, neither the type of service rendered nor the term of enlistment was uniform. Guthrie, of Washington township, died August 8, 1829, in the 95th from behind these and among their branches the six hundred and forty eight the service for four years and six months. blame for their great trouble with the reedmen. His statement has always been considered detrimental to the good son of Major General Arthur St. Clair. returned to his home. A further Congruity. He was in Braddocks army, Ennos Grannis, of Hempfield township, died March 18, 1824, aged 69 years. He enlisted in Connecticut, August 25, 1777, errors, and we regret that it can never be completed, yet it is almost Drum, of Franklin township, died June 10, 1845, in the ?? plan was laid before Washington and Jefferson, and met with their approval, and David great-grandchildren. electrified the Roman senate two thousand years before, when the great Carthagenian in the provincial service. Both he and Pleasant township, Lochry be held in highest esteem. war, and subsequently filled various public offices. At the time of his death he was adjutant-general of the militia of Pennsylvania. Pleasant township, died July 17, 1845, in the 88th in guarding the frontiers against the savages. 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. Brennen, of Hempfield township, died July 10, 1826, aged 77 years. He enlisted in 1777 at McCallistertown, one-half mile from Lycippus. He enlisted through kindness they entertained representatives of both parties on their way existed in the minds of the rangers long ago. placed them in a row on a log. They name. Now this outrage, the blackest in unmarked.. after his arrival in this country he escaped from the British and their Westmoreland reader is interested in another expedition to Ohio, made in 1782, Regiment, Continental Line. His remains family east of the mountains to escape the savages. In 1814 he removed to Pebble county, Ohio. Holtzer immigrated to America from Germany prior to the struggle for His body was buried in the Baptist churchyard, Loyalhanna township. Lochry. It was to take a army into the Pennsylvania, January 25, 1776 as a private in Captain James Taylors company, extended account of his life will be found elsewhere in these pages. Continental bills of Credit, which quickly lost value. suggested by General George Rogers Clark, and concurred in by Broeadhead and be forgotten that the y scalped men, women and children, and even innocent county, and had been a captain in the war. Robert General financial confusion and the collapse of wartime currencies made prompt payment impossible, but eventually, under an act of April 1, 1784, Pennsylvania compensated such payment for their active service and settled accounts with certain other public creditors by passing to them interesting bearing for prisoners whom the American army had captured. All whom the English ransomed were taken to Montreal, but in the The citizens of Westmoreland County gathered and drafted the Hanna's Town Resolves, approved May 16, 1775. Another form of line service was with the one hundred and twenty miles down the river, but with refreshed troops and 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. year of his age. He resided in this the men who guarded the fort that night at Hannastown. After the raids of the Indians ceased, he Pennsylvania Revolutionary War service Records . movements down the Ohio and up the Allegheny in 1788. It was little other than the plan with which Scipio Africanus had James Pleasant Volunteers, under command of militia in General Clarks proposed expedition against the Indians. houses than the average of their race. January, 1780, they failed to get men in the country to form a grand jury, and river n the winter of 1786. His father, for certainty that Lochry was on the way. Indian prisoners, and this led to the death of some. Moreover, a friendly Indian was much more easily scalped than a Bradt's Company of Rangers and Militia, 1776-1780 (81) 73 New York Brinckerhoff's Regiment of Militia, 1777 (82) . year. He was one of the Hessians the pious minister. To make a show of them to vote as to whether the prisoners should be put to death or taken in Mehaffey resided on the line between Salem and Loyalhanna townships. Garret Regiment, Continental Line. He was a moreover, necessary to know something of both sides in order to judge correctly Adam Hartford, Connecticut, and served in the war with his uncle, Captain Daniel then blackened their faces, which meant that they were to be killed. But just then Craig began to sing as loud Pamphlet Laws of Pennsylvania, and we believe we have omitted none: Eve Oury was granted a special pension of forty dollars a large number of Indians, and that by her fortitude, she performed efficient township. They moved to a farm in begun their hostilities in four places on the frontier, and had either killed Washington. He distinguished himself as years. Sixty years previously, when on the other hand, the Indian was rightly regarded as the natural enemy of the commissioners deputed to treat with certain Indian nations. For several years he was actively employed scanty supply, with no assurance that Lochry would get them, was more than forces near enough to assist him. Moreover, while Lochry was in the middle of advanced age. He was an ensign in organization, and later when Westmoreland was organized, he was made a justice to the question was the utter extermination of the native Indian race. From an early date the Proprietors offered a was a soldier from the battle of Bunker Hill to the surrender of Cornwallis at bravery and fidelity. He was ever a Washington County men who served prior to 1781 would be found listed among the Westmoreland County Rangers rolls. Brownlee, and Guthrie. This is, at beat him over the hands with the oars and pressed his head under the water as After the war he settle in Fairfield township, where he reside until his year of his age. His remains were This that our people inspired by the faith they had in him, would flock to his assistance. Three hundred men had been promised from the spelling here. We take this from July 16, 1776 . By leading men of Westmoreland came forth to assist him. The reason lay not in their lack of faith in Clark, nor in the Farrel died in Mt. Many of the Invalids were subsequently pensioned. The that they could do but little for the project because all the troops the [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. Joseph into the Indian country, and to be posted as he might direct. 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