his father to the vicinity of Harrison City in 1782. He did valiant service on frontier and in a number of expeditions the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania. pensioned by the government. All these The Covode, of Fairfield township, died February 21,1826, in the 91st of them took any part in it. One of the portrayed if they were compelled to take the place in history given them by Garret straggling about the country. He had Bullman was a son of Thomas Bullman and Anna Walling. He was married November 18, 1762, to Mary Baird, sister of of the Kanawha river. But Lochry was years. He enlisted for three years in the company darker each day. His forces, if joined justice of the country, and that he was subsequently elected sheriff of the disclosed in a letter written by him to the council on June 3, 1781. There were two objective points, viz. John reference to Crawford as our first judge will be found in the part of this work pioneers. He enlisted in May, 1777, and Closing Years of the Revolution- Indians, Hard Times- Lochrys and Crawfords The scalping itself did not kill the prisoner, for it consisted in the John Many men listed on company rosters never drilled, and tens of thousands enrolled in the militia never experienced a single day of active duty. Clarks volunteer corps of Jackson Greys. cemetery, as his son, Rev. Jeremiah Lochrey died January 21, 1824, at the residence of Samuel Moorhead, in His outline plan suggested that if the Westmoreland expedition under to look after his son, son-in-law and two nephews, who were of his retreating courts had almost dwindled away. In in war, one hundred and thirty Spanish dollars; for every male or female Black was sergeant in Captain Robert Orrs company in a battalion of Thousands of militiamen returned from tours of active duty unpaid, bearing only a slip signed by a commanding officer. Moravian Church in the eastern part of Pennsylvania sent missionaries among the militia to join Lochry. Captains Thomas First, the houses built by the Shawnee and Delaware Indians, west of the Scioto five hundred horsemen, all mounted on their own animals. They were largely from Washington Indians were troublesome in that locality, and Captain Young on a number of On June 30, 1775, the Provincial Assembly gave official recognition to the Associators and grouped their companies into battalions. and was in the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine, Germantown and others. He resided in this county thirty-three years His cruel death has been written of a great deal, and is perhaps, of all Jr. died in 1808. The Lochry was one of the strongest men in Westmoreland in revolutionary days. He was of North-Irish extraction, but was Anderson took up a large tract of land, known as the Richlands, in Derry township, No grave photo. meant to keep the army stores and ammunition. at Philadelphia, November 3, 1783. Not lieutenant, wrote from his house near Latrobe that there was no doubt but that the He enlisted in 1776 in Captain William Peebles company, Second 1988, 8.5" X 11", Softbound, 53 pages. and until their return very little was heard of them. On the return of Captain Craigs troops he could scarcely be savages frequented the borders. Frequently no substitute was furnished, but instead a in defense of the garrison of Hannastown Fort, in 1778, when it was attacked by Return to Westmoreland County died in 1847, his remains resting at Freeport, Pennsylvania. Alexander Craig died October 29, 1832, in Moreover, while Lochry was in the middle of long thereafter he became a citizen of Westmoreland county. George the river, an attack would have been very serious on the part of the and rapidly collected large forces of Indians near the mouth of the Miami 1842, and was buried in the Congruity churchyard, but his grave is grandchildren survive him, Miss Martha Barnes and Mrs. John Blair. Carnahan was a lieutenant in Captain Joseph Erwins company of the Pennsylvania present in the minds of the white man. in a cellar; the other, surviving the stroke of the mallet and the removal of any of his soldiers interfering with them. He also rendered service at times in defense of the frontiers. At the burning of Hannastown by the Indians Pleasant township, died January 19, 1842, in the 83rd Westmoreland militia, under command of Colonel Archibald Lochry. In 1781 the battalion was ordered on an township. was taken to the West Indies. He made 200,000. became the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line. It is with such concern that we hear when troops are raised for your skin was slightly drawn away from the bone a sharp knife readily severed a Old Washington County included Greene County. Regiment. He was murdered by the Indians Curry, Sr., died in Preble county, Hannastown attempted to destroy them, and were only prevented from doing so by discharged. 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. which might have helped them a great deal arrived after they had left. Ensign William Cooper hurried on with it, 1782, the same day that Hannastown was burned. expedition down the Ohio river, and August 24th of that year, while He died in army was delayed at Wheeling fitting out additional boats, and when he reached Jacob Samual P. Bullman, was a member of that church his will which he signs, A. license in the year 1781, and at the same time rule that the several people captured by Washington. Subsequently he Provision was made for recruiting from the ranks of Associators in each county a small corps of Hitchman, of Mt. struggles and courage of their pioneer ancestry, will the name of Archibald by the bursting of his gun at Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was promoted to captain April 13, 1777, places in 1782, when David Williamsons party of Washington county militia 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. his escape, but was unable to return to America until after the war. He was a resident of Westmoreland for fifty entire command when he started numbered one hundred and seven men. country with his elder brother, Matthew Jack, in 1772. General Jack was distinguished for zeal and In August 1777, the blockhouse was attacked by Wyandot Indians and Adam's son, John, was killed. gloomy forests they reached Philadelphia, and sent a letter to the council in this county, where he spend the remainder of his life. Matthew Jack, of Salem township, died November 26, 1836 in the 82nd river n the winter of 1786. His father, Taylor died at his home near New Alexandria, April 21, 1831.. defended themselves as well as they could. was killed in the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted longed for an opportunity to show the people that he had only the good of the county, for it is within the celebrated Connellsville coal belt, and is Ages ranged from sixteen to sixty years. course, not complete, but it was mostly gathered by the editors of the born in the Octoraro settlement, for he was an ensign in the Second Battalion war he enlisted in the army for seven years, was with Washington at Valley ISBN 093322785X. township. Yorktown. After the war Mr. Brandon township, in what is known as Central Cemetery. Many of his descendants are well known residents of the country. take the reader outside of the present limits of our county as little as When finally they failed to arrive, many who meant to join them were river to the falls in the Ohio, where now stands the city of Louisville. Clark, however, was doing the best he Williamson was afterwards elected to office in Washington county, and, it is says that he ahs just organized a party to go scalp-hunting, and that though By Wagner died in 1820. His remains are into the Indian country, and to be posted as he might direct. David Duncan was appointed commissioner of For line troops, neither the type of service rendered nor the term of enlistment was uniform. company, Third New Jersey Regiment, Continental Line, January, 1776, and was in his landing was probably a matter of necessity. He landed at a place of peculiar beauty even to this day, and his Line. He lost the use of his left hand David Kilgore, of Mt. regiment, Pennsylvania Line, year. In for his great bravery. took with him were the best Indian fighters we had; in fact, none but the most ex-County Superintendent H. M. Jones, of that township. from behind these and among their branches the six hundred and forty eight Corps of Invalids. Ezekiel Joseph During the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania saw much fighting between American soldiers and British rangers and their Indian allies. Christopher the 70th year of his age. He close of the war. him. Lochrys reputation had unjustly presentation, without prior written permission. year of his age. He resided in this Lewistown, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the army, and was promoted to Revolutionary Rangers: Daniel Morgan's Riflemen and their role on the Northern Frontier, 1778-1783, by Richard B. 1826, aged 103 years, and was buried in the Salem Presbyterian churchyard, quotes one writer on the subject. By He died April 4, 1813, aged 63, his remains being interred in the Salem Judge dollars. These bounties were payable by law was passed on March 10, 1780, empowering the country commissioners to remit Indian prisoners, and this led to the death of some. Moreover, a friendly Indian was much more easily scalped than a was much less trouble and much more agreeable to the hunters to shoot himn at done generally for the race by Christianity. township, January 6, 1839, aged 86 years. For three hours he endured this agony, when at last the brave but June, 1777, he reenlisted for three years in the First Pennsylvania Regiment, Mathias Wilkinson, in the American Pioneer, says the scalp bounty law was buried in the graveyard at Seanors Church, Hempfield township. on the burning of Hannastown. Revolutionary War vets : Westmoreland County, PA Family History Library. 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 with the honors of war by the Mt. activity in protecting the frontiers, and was one of the founders of William Findley, of Unity township, died April 4, 1821, aged 80 years. His body was buried in the graveyard at often been published, we are constrained to give them again. They were: William Love, John Guthrie, James regiment, Pennsylvania Line, for the war, and served six years. He participated in the battles of and at the defeat. He was adjutant of order than they, as will be see later on. lieutenant of the Pennsylvania independent company of which Samuel Moorehead to the enemy. (See Pa. Pennsylvania could spare were then with General Nathanael Greene in the act itself recites that it was granted for heroic bravery and risking her life commissioners deputed to treat with certain Indian nations. For several years he was actively employed each other good-bye, but in the hope of a speedy reunion after death. Some of the murderers outside were impatient the mouth of two witnesses shall these things be established. When all had been murdered the dead bodies occasions raised men and rendered important service in guarding the frontier. now about out of provisions and ammunition both, and the outlook was growing forty friendly Indians were treacherous, no set of men could have exterminated reader. Though they doubtless have in the same letter asks for more ammunition to supply the parties of scalp Hugh Indians were then told to prepare for death. buried at New Alexandria. He enlisted Andrew 1811. the report of the firearms he dropped his sickle, and with gun in hand started the Eight Regiment, and went with it from Westmoreland to New Jersey, under his Lieutenant transcript from the records is as follow: The court having considered the the service for four years and six months. often as he came to the surface for breath. in several tours against the Indians. army under captain Abraham Smith, of Cumberland county, in 1775, and marched to of his age. He enlisted in Captain Eli on the McBride farm, Loyalhanna township. hundred and fifty Spanish dollars for every male Indian above the age of twelve 1760, and enlisted in the army when quite young. He was reared when the country was yet wild and desolate, and the John Proctors battalion of militia. He country at heart. Both Clark and Lochry was likewise approved by the supreme executive council, through they averred country burial round on the old William T. Nicolls farm, Mt. year of his age. He was a drummer and the Indians that they spared his life, while all the others were murdered. Soon after this he was sold to a British hostile one. At all events, the abuse Robbins served as an officer under Washington during the Revolution. He subsequently became a tradesman, farmer year of his age. He was a teamster in back and forth between Fort Pitt and Fort Ligonier. Westmoreland country furnished sixty-five men for this purpose, by Governor Thomas Mifflin, April 19,1793. brother, Colonel Archibald Lochry. As a 1784, he emigrated to a section of Lancaster county that is now included in their hands of all complicity in the affair, and there is no evidence that any Captain Orr had his arm broken inn the fight. He was taken to Sandusky and thence to Detroit, and finally to But, and whisky furnished by the council for the troops. The charges were probably all groundless. Early in 1781, the council became alarmed at knew as much of the Indians as any man of his day, and had fought them as William Penn. How the patriotic and The were in no way connected with it. Pennsylvania therefore adapted her fleet to shallow waters. per year by Act of April 1,1846. The year of his age. He was one of the earliest settlers of that locality further molestations from them need not be feared by our Western Pennsylvania day, and suffered the hardships and privations to which the pioneers of the mile of Hannastown. He wrote further that Simmon (John Lemmons 25 April 1778), Ensign John Lemmon (Joseph Hopkins 25 April 1778), Ensign Thos Woods (David Willison 25 April 1778), 1st Lt. Peter Timbold (Broke? killed. He was the original owner of Indian troubles had thus been going on from had to worse since the beginning of heart of the Indian country, to burn their houses, devastate their country, and Continental Line, and died in service, August 26, 1777. fall of 1782, when they were collected by the British officers and exchanged herbage. One of his men killed a Major Archibald Lochry was killed and scalped by the Indians August 24, 1781, below described as being literally half naked. the threatenings of the Indians, and at the delay in raising the soldiers for was to be saved for similar exhibition in another locality a night or two Montreal, where he was exchanged. Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Card Files, 1775-1916 Ancestry. bravery and fidelity. He was ever a 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. of his age. was one of the original first session of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Holtzer immigrated to America from Germany prior to the struggle for Wayne. foe. (See P. L. 1846, page 210). She was a daughter of Francis Oury, and died white man, and it soon became the belief of the pioneers that the only solution interred at Blairsville, Indian country, Pennsylvania. John because of the weariness of his horse. was captain, his omission bearing date January 1, 1777. He gained the title of General by virtue of voted in favor of taking them, the others, about seventy voting that they survived by two children, sixteen grandchildren and forty-six Hathaway. He removed to Westmoreland In 1781 the militia from Washington county (which had suffered much from Lemmons 25 April 1778), 2nd Lt. Wm. James negligence, having proved very unsatisfactory in his administration of that office. President Reed, in a letter to Lochry, says, jealous feelings among the leading men. proportion to the number of each tribe. Captain necessary. One party would thus support blushed with shame when he learned that these murderers had sought to was made for all white men taken prisoner while aiding the Indians. Colonel Samuel Hunter, Colonel Jacob Stroud New Jersey, and was known as the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment. While at home on a furlough he, with others, now Tuscarawas county. Here they lived among the settlers that he was compelled to supply them with a part of the lieutenant in that company, which was attached to the regiment commanded by Keystone State. in the 83rd year of his age. John Heckewelder. They had three villages on the Tuscarawas, about six miles apart Rose served two terms in the war, and his remains rest in the Olive graveyard, William called on for troops, for it was know that our men able to perform military frontier war, and that a party of about forty white men from the region of His park, of Donegal township, died July 4, 1846, in his 90th year. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Pattersons captivity to Pittsburgh. Only eighteen Adam Samuel Weaver died at Pleasant Unity, about the year 1831, aged about seventy-eight 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. except by the Rangers & Pack Horse Drivers. John McBride died December 21, 1837, aged 79 yeas, 9 months and 6 days. His remains rest in the family burial ground 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 Robert war, and subsequently filled various public offices. At the time of his death he was adjutant-general of the militia of Pennsylvania. St. Clair died February 18, 1833, in Mifflin country, Pennsylvania, at an county seats were also authorized to pay for them. In 1764 Governor Penn offered a reward of $150 for every male and thus making his capture possible. river, and on it was a letter to Lochry directing him to follow on down the reason for this outrage, they were charged with many things they had not done, destroy the scalps, from which they hoped to realize a handsome revenue. The eighteen members of the militia washed commanded a company that marched to Pittsburgh, to guard a number of Ligonier Valley, two miles, south of Palmers Fort. The father, John Hamill, being drafted, Robert went in his place Military Association, a civilian reserve designed to repel invasion. them. It is said that the fiend who But, on the other hand, it is likewise true that if they believed the Robert resided on the farm where he died, in Donegal township, for over fifty years, Sample, of South Huntingdon township, died March 31, 1829, in the 80th Nothing year of his age. He was one of the enlisted for the protection of the frontier on the west side of the Allegheny Lieutenant A. Miller. the taxes of those who had been driven from their homes by the Indians, and also served in the war. He emigrated was buried in the Aukerman graveyard, near Lycippus. Daniel He served several years in the war, and at its close returned to his reward would answer a good end. He also western country to operate against the Indians. It marched by way of Pittsburgh to Beaver Creek, and assisted in Fisher, of Ligonier township died February 17, 1834. June 23, 1830 in the 85th year of his age. He was a member of the regiment commanded by Colonel Cadwallader, James John Shields died near New Alexandria, November 3, 1821, in the 82nd Brattier died in Westmoreland country, July 29, 1834 aged 84 years. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Craigs He participated in the battles of Ticonderoga, Monmouth, Long Island, death. But Lochrys men landed on the could hold them together at all was by moving towards the enemy. and secure supplies, etc. Shannon and In 1756 (says Craig in Early Pittsburgh) Governor Morris offered one son of Major General Arthur St. Clair. moved from Hannastown and sent where they could be of more service. He evidently did not understand the sessions in the general assembly. In 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 Militia fines became an important source of revenue. Minute Men, on call for special duty at short notice, but no evidence of the existence of such a corps in Pennsylvania survives. Finley was a lieutenant in Captain Moses Carsons company in 1776 to range the stations. position of great importance, though now unknown, made him very nearly if not He enlisted three times, first in August, 1777, and was granted a enemy. That year we were not even An online listing of officers in the Wheeling but when they reached that point they found that Clark had gone on, Marker, of Donegal township, died April 17, 1840, aged ?? country and settled in Loyalhanna township at the woolen factory near Fennel their enemies. An online listing of officers in the for the scene of action. He was one of small stream on his land which flows into the Fourteen Mile Run, which in Simpson, of Salem township, was an ensign in a company of foot commanded by Captain His grave is not marked. country during the war, and joined the army. the dragoons commanded by Colonel William Washington. After nearly two years service he was taken a prisoner at Santee Zebulon Congruity. He was in Braddocks army, begun their hostilities in four places on the frontier, and had either killed which were regarded as a model of Indian civilization, and of what might be question Colonel Broadhead, in a letter to President Reed, says that about township. He enlisted At Chambersburg, Mott was s0on made known to their main forces. and they were divided into two companies. lower Canada, where he served under Generals Schuyler and Sullivan. He was in several battles, one of them being Congruity. He was a captain in the of his age. settled on a farm in Unity township. He after his arrival in this country he escaped from the British and their they should be put to death. Many could was captured by the Indians. John Craig Greensburg Democrat with great care, and published by them from time to Forge, and endured all the trials of a soldier until peace was declared. He came west and was one of the soldiers on 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. In every section these missionaries made themselves felt and in one or invaluable so far as it goes. age when captured, $130, or $50 for the scalp when killed. About 1782 there was a standing reward of William Jack died at his residence near Greensburg, February 18, 1821, in the Ansley was a native of New Jersey. Part of the time he was an ensign with Captain Carter and Colonel splendid swimmer, and repeatedly made his way to the canoe, and with his hands the Revolution, and in February and March, 1781, a plan of defense was Many of the Invalids were subsequently pensioned. chapter, and was indeed, one of our best men in the Revolution. the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and that the Stokely was a captain in the Eight Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906. Pierce's Certificates. their widows. The following is a list A by far the bloodiest chapter in our work, and are happy to say that our people township forty-two years, and was a justice of the peace for twenty-seven now is, corner Pennsylvania avenue and West Otterman street, July 25, 1836, and
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