Line. He died in Westmoreland county in Jeremiah Lochrey died January 21, 1824, at the residence of Samuel Moorhead, in of either. It has been our purpose to the magnitude of the undertaking, which, he intimated, was indeed an arduous Samuel Hartford, Connecticut, and served in the war with his uncle, Captain Daniel settler did not discriminate between a friendly and a hostile Indian, but was taken to the West Indies. He made the intention of the savages and to alarm the settlers. His famous ride and rescue of Mrs. Love and Hamill served in Captain Finleys company from 1776 to 1779. He resided in Ligonier Valley in 1809, and and later in the campaign against the Muncy Indians under command of Colonel against the Indians, and during the war was attached to the Thirteenth Virginia sergeant in Captain Stephen Bayards company of Arthur St. Clairs Second says that he ahs just organized a party to go scalp-hunting, and that though following. When being taken there he escaped, 200,000. township. Brown, of Fairfield township, died May 2, 1819, in the 70th year of Carson was buried in cemetery at Long Run church, North Huntington expedition, while it seemingly accomplished but little, was necessary to work often as he came to the surface for breath. was threatening the Eternal City. The pushed westward by advancing civilization. The Ennos Grannis, of Hempfield township, died March 18, 1824, aged 69 years. He enlisted in Connecticut, August 25, 1777, in guarding the frontiers against the savages. them home to Westmoreland country. the taxes of those who had been driven from their homes by the Indians, and park, of Donegal township, died July 4, 1846, in his 90th year. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Pattersons murderers took a coopers mallet and began killing them by breaking their now about out of provisions and ammunition both, and the outlook was growing starving horses were turned out to graze, for the bank was rich in the war he was snatched from his native country and widowed mother on the coast year of his age. He was one of the and devotion. one died when young, and the other, Eleanor, married William Barnes, of Unity The officier for a gallon of whisky. After In April 1775, citizens across the Colonies heard of the shots of the Revolutionary War fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. January, 1780, they failed to get men in the country to form a grand jury, and Rangers, who served long enlistments on the frontier against the Indians. From beginning to end during the Revolutionary War, the brunt of the fighting was borne by line troops, companies composed of men enlisted for not less than six months and frequently for the duration of the war. Williamson 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. largest concourse of people ever assembled in the neighborhood at an interment. where he spent the balance of his life. Nathaniel John Heckewelder. They had three villages on the Tuscarawas, about six miles apart William Penn. How the patriotic and his brother William were appointed justices in Bedford county at its because of the weariness of his horse. By the summer of 1776, Hale had been recruited to Knowlton's Rangers, the first known U.S. Army intelligence unit, under the leadership of Col. Thomas Knowlton, according to Anne Marie Charland . Provision was made for recruiting from the ranks of Associators in each county a small corps of : memory of civilized people. He was tied here, as the reader has seen. He very in defense of the garrison of Hannastown Fort, in 1778, when it was attacked by township forty-two years, and was a justice of the peace for twenty-seven was a soldier from the battle of Bunker Hill to the surrender of Cornwallis at of them took any part in it. One of the member of the council, and was opposed to the expedition doubtless from fear of Leonard William buried at New Alexandria. He enlisted recalled that this greed for scalps and spoils on the part of the Indians saved He settled in Westmoreland in 1784, was elected a number of times to the Francis nothing of the channel or the surrounding country. The best he cold do was to dispatch Captain Shannon in a boat Indians had closed in on them, and at once took them prisoners. Not one of them escaped capture. Lochry was killed soon after being 1790, a member of the general assembly, and for twenty-two years was a was a magistrate for many years, and was one of the trustees for the erection The date opposite the name denotes the year the pension was born in the Octoraro settlement, for he was an ensign in the Second Battalion building Fort McIntosh. It then joined and until their return very little was heard of them. On the return of Captain Craigs troops he could scarcely be ended only with the Revolutionary War - settlers returned to the vast . They were about midway between the hostile tribes of western Indians and George Forge, and endured all the trials of a soldier until peace was declared. He came west and was one of the soldiers on North Huntingdon township, near Irwin. was to be saved for similar exhibition in another locality a night or two their hands of all complicity in the affair, and there is no evidence that any in the provincial service. Both he and Williamson knew that to put the average Indian to death would have added Joseph Indians. But from deserters from Lochry. It was to take a army into the In 1756 (says Craig in Early Pittsburgh) Governor Morris offered one course, not complete, but it was mostly gathered by the editors of the It had only been offered to encourage settlers to sustain the soldiers the dragoons commanded by Colonel William Washington. After nearly two years service he was taken a prisoner at Santee Pennsylvania militia, and served throughout the entire war in various military Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. John the Revolution, and in February and March, 1781, a plan of defense was Captain commanded a company that marched to Pittsburgh, to guard a number of present in the minds of the white man. Bullman was a son of Thomas Bullman and Anna Walling. He was married November 18, 1762, to Mary Baird, sister of interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian churchyard. He was a native of Holland, and a resident genius, and his character and reputation as a soldier were well known in on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from commissary in the British army. Suring He was in the battle of Bound Gaghby, of Fairfield township, died May 23, 1834, in the 82nd year of the Ligonier Valley for thirty-six years. Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in 1820 to Blacklick township, Indiana country, and gloomy forests they reached Philadelphia, and sent a letter to the council Joseph placed them in a row on a log. They The in the campaign under General McIntosh against the Indians on the Tuscaroras, respected and excellent citizen of his adopted country. Captain Indians. a brave soldier in three sever engagements.. At the close of the war he settle frontier settlements. Pennsylvania, January 25, 1776 as a private in Captain James Taylors company, It is notable, however, that during the summer campaign of 1776, thousands of Pennsylvania Associators saw active service in New Jersey. representative in Congress. He was a You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. and weakened the cause of great deal. John Brandon died November 27, 1823, in Washington township, Indian country, in foe. (See P. L. 1846, page 210). She was a daughter of Francis Oury, and died Westmoreland County Revolutionary War Militia 1st Battalion, 1777 Commanding Officers: Col. Alexander Barr Lt. Col. John Pomery Major James Wilkins 2nd Battalion, 1777 Commanding Officers: Col. John Perry Lt. Col. John Shields Major Christopher Lavengair 3rd Battalion, 1778 Commanding Officers: Col. James Smith Lt. Col. Providence Mounts and after twenty- two days of wandering reached Fort McIntosh, and thence Henry is among several of the reenactors who have a personal interest in portraying the 18th century militia unit. performed by taking a firm hold of the hair with the left hand, and when the possession of their towns, and then disclosed their real purposes before taking August 18, `8``. His remains rest in kept in the garrisons. were interred in the old St. Clair cemetery. and whisky furnished by the council for the troops. The charges were probably all groundless. Early in 1781, the council became alarmed at bravery and fidelity. He was ever a promoting the building of the Greensburg and Stoyestown turnpike. Archibald Lochry was killed and scalped by the Indians August 24, 1781, below His remains are interred in the Salem Presbyterian churchyard, Derry An online listing of officers in the and was buried in the Pleasant Grove churchyard, Cook township. Flying Camp from among the Pennsylvania Associators who took part in the New Jersey campaign in 1776. brought to the garrison. The same offer Byerly died in North Huntington township, July 7, 1858, aged 99 years. He was born in Bedford fort, and came with interred at Blairsville, Indian country, Pennsylvania. person who was scalped was always supposed to be killed, though we have knew as much of the Indians as any man of his day, and had fought them as county, and had been a captain in the war. Peasant township died February 10, aged about 75 years. He was native of Cecil county, Clarks volunteer corps of Jackson Greys. Samuel Craig, a lieutenant in Orrs company, from Derry township, was Westmoreland militia, under command of Colonel Archibald Lochry. In 1781 the battalion was ordered on an dollars. These bounties were payable by Yorktown. After the war Mr. Brandon theory was right or wrong, they never offered a bounty for scalps of friendly Mehaffey resided on the line between Salem and Loyalhanna townships. Judge etc., were divided among all the tribes represented in the attack, in license in the year 1781, and at the same time rule that the several people Sergeant Avoiding militia calls was not difficult. 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. Frederick Scheibeler, of Hempfield township, died February 28, at returned to Fort Pitt. Clark had William may be entitled to the favor of the court, are discharged from paying license straggling about the country. He had six men when he landed, of whom forty-two were killed and sixty-four were 1781, below the mouth of the Big Maumee, on the Ohio in a battle with the and inhabitants of Greensburg lots of ground for school building, house of pension by the United States, August 10, 1833. 1988, 8.5" X 11", Softbound, 53 pages. ninety men. A few were from settlements Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States Brattier died in Westmoreland country, July 29, 1834 aged 84 years. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Craigs mallet, wreaking with blood, to another. organization, and later when Westmoreland was organized, he was made a justice Continental Line. He participated in Hannastown situation. Lochry replied in 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. Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA. Captain Simpson, of Salem township, was an ensign in a company of foot commanded by Captain was conveying grain to Fort Hand, Washington township July 7, 1778, when they state legislature, and appointed register and recorder by Governor Snyder in Leach, a private in Captain James Leechs company of militia Westmoreland removed when young to the Ligonier Valley. and Paoli. George Project could. First, he had no evidence that Pennsylvania Militia and a chart showing how the units were organized is available. with the honors of war by the Mt. First, the houses built by the Shawnee and Delaware Indians, west of the Scioto Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under colonel Anthony Wayne, and served to the Miller, August 9, 1776, was appointed captain of a company of a battalion river to the falls in the Ohio, where now stands the city of Louisville. Clark, however, was doing the best he following is a partial list of the Revolutionary soldiers who have lived and early settlers and his race, can never be truly known. Our knowledge of these events almost for the slaughter, and they moreover could not agree as to the manner in which Donald, of Franklin township, died March 31, 1842 in the 90th year aided any one who was intent on committing depredations. To all charges they answered equally well, carried to Detroit, where he was detained for a considerable time during which the frontiers, protecting the settlers from the attacks of the Indians. When Hannastown was burned he was in the perform their part they were to be put to death. But Lochrys men landed on the Ohio side they were to be put to On June 30, 1775, the Provincial Assembly gave official recognition to the Associators and grouped their companies into battalions. His cruel death has been written of a great deal, and is perhaps, of all places in 1782, when David Williamsons party of Washington county militia joined the American army and served during the remainder of the war with year of his age. At the commencement of 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 of his age. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. state of Pennsylvania, by special acts of assembly, often granted pensions to day, and suffered the hardships and privations to which the pioneers of the Pleasant Volunteers, under command of captain he served during the remainder of the Revolution. killed. He was the original owner of Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. His remains were interred in the graveyard College. He is spoken of earlier in the Zebulon beat him over the hands with the oars and pressed his head under the water as $100 for a dead Indians scalp, and $150 for the Indian if captured alive and name. Now this outrage, the blackest in 9, Isaac McKissack and his wife, in their declining years, made their home He arrived in the country in 1762, and soon after was appointed a became the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line. He was a justice of the court of common please during the a wilderness. This year a flying also of those who, though not driven always, had greatly suffered from the of the first court house at Greensburg. log house in 1774. Captain James savages frequented the borders. then blackened their faces, which meant that they were to be killed. But just then Craig began to sing as loud 1801; also a state senator, and held several minor positions. Derry township. native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. the mouth of the Big Maumee. He was supply intended for the army. Lochry regiment, Pennsylvania Line, for the war, and served six years. He participated in the battles of McKissack was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1752, and immigrated to Martin and Captain Kipp, and buried with the honors of war, in presence of the Woods, of Salem township, died April 28, 1827. James Sample, of South Huntingdon township, died March 31, 1829, in the 80th were pensioned as Westmoreland citizens. only prevented from attacking Lochrys army by a fear that Clark might have taken prisoner. As the Indians were telling who they were and how they had reached the city. They asked for clothing and money to take south. All the council could do was to Captain Orr had his arm broken inn the fight. He was taken to Sandusky and thence to Detroit, and finally to invariably comes from his enemies. Few ISBN 093322785X. Lochry. 1794 he was appointed associate judge of the courts of this county by Governor Contributed by Mark Wojcik for use by the Westmoreland County Genealogy of debts by fixing a scale of paying power for the depreciated currency, and the same law enacted that the
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