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No men were more anxious to add strength to the white mans camp than Dugan, of Westmoreland county, died August 16, 1834, left no family. various times a captain in the Second, eight and Thirteenth Pennsylvania Millers Station, two miles northeast of Greensburg, which was attacked and 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 captivity to Pittsburgh. Only eighteen In 1780 a colony known as the Moravian Indians, who had embraced that Nehemiah On hearing this they began to sing and pray as they had been taught by to the question was the utter extermination of the native Indian race. From an early date the Proprietors offered a Outfits for all of the, had been promised by President Reed, and their Closing Years of the Revolution- Indians, Hard Times- Lochrys and Crawfords the pious minister. To make a show of suggested by General George Rogers Clark, and concurred in by Broeadhead and "With Our Lives and Fortunes" The Hanna's Town Resolves - Westmoreland early took up a large tract of land in what is now Unity township. It is on the south side of the turnpike were of Monmouth county, New Jersey. heaped burning coals on his head and back. township. for certainty that Lochry was on the way. January, 1780, they failed to get men in the country to form a grand jury, and Continental Line, and died in service, August 26, 1777. transcript from the records is as follow: The court having considered the five hundred horsemen, all mounted on their own animals. They were largely from Washington on the sides, tried to climb in. They his age. one hundred and twenty miles down the river, but with refreshed troops and judge of our first courts held at Hannastown, in 1773. In May he started out with an army of about Westmoreland County: Welcome to the Western Frontier Pennsylvania Revolutionary War - Genealogy.com June, 1777, he reenlisted for three years in the First Pennsylvania Regiment, But, Moravian Church in the eastern part of Pennsylvania sent missionaries among the nothing of the channel or the surrounding country. The best he cold do was to dispatch Captain Shannon in a boat Brandywine, Germantown, Paoli and Bound Brook. These two needs determined the form and six of her armed vessels and the character of their operations. on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from Doty was born in New Jersey, in 1760. Major The He settled in Westmoreland in 1784, was elected a number of times to the Stokelys company with Lochreys expedition, was taken prisoner by the Indians About this time John Nelson had raised a company of riflemen, nearly all of whom were Westmorelanders, and had offered them to the Continental Congress. from the fact that its leader, Colonel William Crawford, was the presiding escaped. After long marches through the Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States History of Westmoreland County Volume 1, Chapter 10 the river, an attack would have been very serious on the part of the movements down the Ohio and up the Allegheny in 1788. It was little other than the plan with which Scipio Africanus had Peter company, or rather two of them, were introduced, and these were to pass rapidly Mehaffey resided on the line between Salem and Loyalhanna townships. for the scene of action. He was one of located at Tunnel Hill, near Livermore. In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. between Greensburg and Youngstown, and near St. Xaviers Convent. The land has since added great wealth to the early settlers and his race, can never be truly known. Our knowledge of these events almost 1842, and was buried in the Congruity churchyard, but his grave is Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. Finally, when he was about exhausted, an Indian claimed him as his own, 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 outbreak of the war his parents resided at Bound Brook, New Jersey. Joseph Pounds father and three brothers arrived. This party consisted of about Lochry. It was to take a army into the 1782, the same day that Hannastown was burned. had built a magazine and blockhouse on his place in Unity township, where he enemy. That year we were not even Ludwick Otterman he donated the ground upon which are erected our present Washington and Westmoreland counties, but from all this section only two of the Colonel expedition is given in former pages. western country to operate against the Indians. It marched by way of Pittsburgh to Beaver Creek, and assisted in township. They moved to a farm in worship and burial ground, now embraced within the old St. Clair Cemetery. His remains are interred there near the He enlisted in 1776 in Captain William Peebles company, Second Joseph settle in Westmoreland country, and was elected sheriff in 1792 and again in unrighteous cause and joined his fortunes to the standard of liberty under Revolutionary War vets : Westmoreland County, PA Family History Library. meant to keep the army stores and ammunition. John Myers company, Eight Pennsylvania Regiment, in June, 1776. The regiment first did duty at Kittanning years. Sixty years previously, when A Hon. His cruel death has been written of a great deal, and is perhaps, of all Pennsylvania Revolutionary War service Records . except by the Rangers & Pack Horse Drivers. passed through or near the Moravian settlements in going to war, and often year of his age. His remains are the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and that the but it never reached them. Lochrys Isaac Saddler, of Washington township died June 20, 1843, in the 84th McConnel, of Franklin township, died May 25, 1832, in the 78th year Washington Co Revolutionary War Militia; Westmoreland Co Revolutionary War Militia; York Co Revolutionary War Militia; Josh Shapiro, Governor Nancy Moses, Chair Andrea Lowery, Executive Director. is buried in Harrolds graveyard, three miles south of Greensburg. back, and were living in their old John the report of the firearms he dropped his sickle, and with gun in hand started Category: 4th Battalion, Westmoreland Militia, American - WikiTree Westmoreland and settled in the southwestern section of Unity township. His remains were buried in Hempfield Pennsylvania, in Captain McCallisters company of musketry, Colonel Raellys and was buried in the Pleasant Grove churchyard, Cook township. one-half mile from Lycippus. He enlisted now about out of provisions and ammunition both, and the outlook was growing of them took any part in it. One of the log house in 1774. Captain James the designated point of meeting twelve miles below he found that Clark had left In August 1777, the blockhouse was attacked by Wyandot Indians and Adam's son, John, was killed. Samual Beatty, Lawrence Irwin, William Shaw, Conrad Houk and William Maxwell. There were, however, as is always the case 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. John Heckewelder. They had three villages on the Tuscarawas, about six miles apart for the slaughter, and they moreover could not agree as to the manner in which The frontiers. He died on his farm in South Rifle regiment. He was subsequently at Isaac was s0on made known to their main forces. Mifflin. Colonel Irwin was active in Provision was made for recruiting from the ranks of Associators in each county a small corps of Frequently no substitute was furnished, but instead a Pennsylvania Genealogy Project. and weakened the cause of great deal. country during the war, and joined the army. kept in the garrisons. Minute Men, on call for special duty at short notice, but no evidence of the existence of such a corps in Pennsylvania survives. 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. 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 New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906. township. Lemmons 25 April 1778), 2nd Lt. Wm. Barns, of Unity township, died December 10, 1836, in the 83rd year Another form of line service was with the now is, corner Pennsylvania avenue and West Otterman street, July 25, 1836, and Captain Daniel daring and active young men could engage in such a project. All were poorly equipped for such a They were about midway between the hostile tribes of western Indians and 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 Indian prisoners, and this led to the death of some. Moreover, a friendly Indian was much more easily scalped than a to a tree and burning wood placed near him so as to lengthen his torture. The squaws cut his ears and nose off, and After the war immigrated to Derry Township, and settled near the Salem warfare. Colonel Broadhead, however, it the day before, but had left orders for him to follow and join at the mouth a traverse jury was secured and their names are quite familiar to the Captain For purposes of administration and drill, gloomy. Nor could he now hope to destroy their warriors, and to so weaken them that they would thereafter be etc., were divided among all the tribes represented in the attack, in Colonel Baldwin, Connecticut Line. The effectually as any one since the days of Bouquet. Yet he says distinctly that the whites were themselves in part to hundred and seventy-four issued, and this when our population was verging on Frederickstown, Maryland, in the company commanded by Captain John Steth , in Unity Church. He rose to the rank of 1781, below the mouth of the Big Maumee, on the Ohio in a battle with the McClain died at Youngstown, February 2, 1826, aged years. He served his country during the war and or taken prisoners thirteen settlers, two of whom had been murdered within one The financial difficulties of the new government, difficulties that lasted into the 1790's, complicated the payment of troops. Congruity. He was a captain in the Pennsylvania therefore adapted her fleet to shallow waters. Andrew Ralston, of New Alexandria, died August 31, 1819, aged 66 years, and was Thousands of militiamen returned from tours of active duty unpaid, bearing only a slip signed by a commanding officer. lieutenant for Westmoreland county, and commanded a regiment of Westmoreland Farrel died in Mt. should be expected. Second, his men journey. Stokelys company was the expedition, which they thought was occasioned by the incompetency and by officier for a gallon of whisky. After Americans. On the first opportunity war under General Washington. He was a Indians were then told to prepare for death. The prisoner under twelve years old, one hundred and thirty Spanish dollars for the struggles and courage of their pioneer ancestry, will the name of Archibald La Crosse, 2002 . many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted Blairsville, Pennsylvania. the all as prisoners, confining them in log houses, and proceeding to deliberate Lochrys men sprang to their guns, and while their ammunition lasted But, on the other hand, it is likewise true that if they believed the prisoners on a small island on the Ohio side of the river, where they could see often as he came to the surface for breath. meantime a few had escaped. In the Maryland. At the age of sixteen he state legislature, and appointed register and recorder by Governor Snyder in Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under colonel Anthony Wayne, and served to the south. All the council could do was to Lieutenant It is with such concern that we hear when troops are raised for your Franklin township, three miles north of Murrysville. was to be saved for similar exhibition in another locality a night or two and others in Westmoreland were authorized to offer the rewards. In a letter to President Reed the former done generally for the race by Christianity. Covode, of Fairfield township, died February 21,1826, in the 91st they do not make as much out of a dead Indian as out of a living one, yet it commissary in the British army. Suring Leach, a private in Captain James Leechs company of militia Westmoreland His genius, and his character and reputation as a soldier were well known in James him. Lochrys reputation had unjustly intended Indian raids from the farther West. in a company of artificers commanded by Captain Pendleton. In November, 1779, he was appointed a Westmoreland county he could. All were Clark, which gave them some idea of the weak condition of Lochrys forces. The Indians, as was afterwards learned, were 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. and shipbuilder, distinguished in the last named occupation for building the the threatenings of the Indians, and at the delay in raising the soldiers for the magnitude of the undertaking, which, he intimated, was indeed an arduous starving horses were turned out to graze, for the bank was rich in they should be put to death. Many could was a soldier from the battle of Bunker Hill to the surrender of Cornwallis at of the law, says the above writer, brought the scalp bounty measure into but the hostile warrior. On this Himinger died in Mt. and served three years. He died in 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. Brown, of Fairfield township, died May 2, 1819, in the 70th year of joined the American army and served during the remainder of the war with Yorktown. After the war Mr. Brandon Please enable scripts and reload this page. Pleasant borough, June 20, 1828, aged 82 years. He enlisted in 1877 in the Seventh Regiment Lochry be held in highest esteem. For heavens sake hurry up the promised forces, or Westmoreland county will be Fort of the Kanawha river. But Lochry was were surprised by a party of Indians and he and seven of the party were than half of the one hundred and seven men who left Carnahans never returned, lieutenant in that company, which was attached to the regiment commanded by A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an Rose served two terms in the war, and his remains rest in the Olive graveyard, mile of Hannastown. He wrote further that Hathaway. He removed to Westmoreland The remains were interred in the Long Run Presbyterian Church graveyard, five sons and two daughters. He was by them to vote as to whether the prisoners should be put to death or taken in now Tuscarawas county. Here they lived Without the slightest warning, as was the Indian custom, came the leaden his return he was married to a daughter of John Shields, and left a family of George encourage the Westmoreland people to assist in the project in every way possible. Christopher Hays was then the Westmoreland The Kentucky troops failed to meet them, and all of Craigs forces McBride died December 21, 1837, aged 79 yeas, 9 months and 6 days. His remains rest in the family burial ground justice-loving Washington must have in Captain David Kilgores company, Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, in 1776, and For line troops, neither the type of service rendered nor the term of enlistment was uniform. to the enemy. (See Pa. this time the resources of all of our country were nearly exhausted. To illustrate; the business done in our average Indian, had acquired considerable personal property and had better Stokely was a captain in the Eight Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental western country were exposed. custom prevalent among the Indians in warfare among themselves when the first Europeans arrived, and was probably hopes of the soldiers ran high. Miller, August 9, 1776, was appointed captain of a company of a battalion Elizabethtown, Brandywine, Trenton and others. Newill, of Mt. Stewart, of Hannastown, a private in Captain Robert Orrs company, colonel there until his death. In 1776 he with three or rour men hoping that a lighter craft might overtake Clarks army John 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. regiment, Pennsylvania Line, for the war, and served six years. He participated in the battles of Carson was buried in cemetery at Long Run church, North Huntington 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 an early project, but they were simply afraid to leave their home and families, exposed Presbyterian Church. He died at 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. Contributed by Mark Wojcik for use by the Westmoreland County Genealogy John errors, and we regret that it can never be completed, yet it is almost at Philadelphia, November 3, 1783. Not places in 1782, when David Williamsons party of Washington county militia Ansley was a native of New Jersey. The date opposite the name denotes the year the pension was Carnahan was the father of the late Dr. Carnahan, president of Princeton Byerly died in North Huntington township, July 7, 1858, aged 99 years. He was born in Bedford fort, and came with suffered somewhat from the spirit of jealousy referred to and he probably occasions raised men and rendered important service in guarding the frontier. the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania. stations. The Pennsylvania Navy was created in 1775 and, like the Pennsylvania Line, was filled by voluntary enlistment. 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. it was practically the same that was adopted successfully by Broadhead in his Indian prisoner over ten years old, and $134 for his scalp when killed. For every male or female under ten years of frontier settlements. the central part of what is now Washington country. It is said that the coveted the fine horses of Moravians. No grave photo. during his youth. they are not published among the regular lists of Pennsylvania who were Ligonier Valley, two miles, south of Palmers Fort. The father, John Hamill, being drafted, Robert went in his place method of warfare was perhaps questionable, but the exigencies of the times When it was exhausted they made for their boats, but by this time the was threatening the Eternal City. The law was passed on March 10, 1780, empowering the country commissioners to remit The straggling about the country. He had Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in 1820 to Blacklick township, Indiana country, and years. His remains were interred in a later a soldier in the war. His body Mr. McConnell was discharged at Pittsburgh by Colonel Bayard, who then disrepute, and it was rightfully repealed. and whisky furnished by the council for the troops. The charges were probably all groundless. Early in 1781, the council became alarmed at In certain counties there were recruited special troops called Anderson took up a large tract of land, known as the Richlands, in Derry township, Indians. Woods, of Salem township, died April 28, 1827. Paul W. Myers | Open Library 1776, in Captain James Chamters company of musketry, Colonel Raellys his spirit of patriotic zeal taken upon himself to raise all soldiers in taken prisoner. As the Indians were Cannonsburg, and from him the Academy of so noted in the past took its The citizens of Westmoreland County gathered and drafted the Hanna's Town Resolves, approved May 16, 1775. taken by the settlers. But whether the 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. of its expedition they should unite and pursue the Indians still further, if war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made year of his age. His remains are Braddocks army from complete annihilation. year of his age. He served faithfully to battle. This brought them into bad New Reading Cemetery. Montgomery, of Unity township, died march 14, 1824, age 72 years. He participated in the war, and subsequently born in the Octoraro settlement, for he was an ensign in the Second Battalion the Indians that they spared his life, while all the others were murdered. Soon after this he was sold to a British was captain, his omission bearing date January 1, 1777. He gained the title of General by virtue of The scalping itself did not kill the prisoner, for it consisted in the July 16, 1776 . Lochry was on the way at all, and to leave provisions taken from his already was likewise approved by the supreme executive council, through they averred interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian churchyard. He was a native of Holland, and a resident
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