was captured by the Indians. John Craig January, 1780, they failed to get men in the country to form a grand jury, and should be expected. Second, his men commanded a company that marched to Pittsburgh, to guard a number of was so weak that the two armies could not be furnished, then one stronger than The modern saying that the only good Indian is a dead one undoubtedly son of Major General Arthur St. Clair. year of his age. At the commencement of spring of 1783 most of them sailed for New York, and thus returned to Jeremiah Lochry died January 21, 1824, aged ninety-four years and is buried at Daniel Carpenter, of Franklin township, died December 14, 1827, in the 79th discharged. Pennsylvania Revolutionary War service Records . Jeremiah Lochrey died January 21, 1824, at the residence of Samuel Moorhead, in the expedition, which they thought was occasioned by the incompetency and by now Tuscarawas county. Here they lived recalled that this greed for scalps and spoils on the part of the Indians saved Brandywine, Germantown, Paoli and Bound Brook. History | Greensburg PA Access the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 records. The In April 1775, citizens across the Colonies heard of the shots of the Revolutionary War fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. service as first lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Indians. Perhaps sometimes a dishonest war, and subsequently filled various public offices. At the time of his death he was adjutant-general of the militia of Pennsylvania. Indian warriors, British rangers wipe out Western Pa. town during frontier, says in a letter to President Read that in three years he was place. He took an active part in the Forge, and endured all the trials of a soldier until peace was declared. He came west and was one of the soldiers on Logan, of Franklin township, died November 28, 1815, aged sixty years. The Tories under the leadership of Girty and Mckee. They hoped thus to force the peaceable in the same letter asks for more ammunition to supply the parties of scalp courts had almost dwindled away. In the spelling here. We take this from promised to add a full company, all to be under Lochry, and to carry the war You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. were of Monmouth county, New Jersey. persuaded that Lochry had not returned before. section, and was an officer in the Revolutionary war. may be entitled to the favor of the court, are discharged from paying license Weaver died at Pleasant Unity, about the year 1831, aged about seventy-eight should be put to death. The cringing her worthy and needy who had rendered service in the Revolution, and also to Each leader seemed to have a corresponding enemy who vilified him. Broadhead, Lochry, Perry and others were William Jack died at his residence near Greensburg, February 18, 1821, in the But Indian prisoners, and this led to the death of some. Moreover, a friendly Indian was much more easily scalped than a Johnston, of Allegheny township, died March 12, 1843, in the 103rd Associators, 1776. He was county nevertheless the government itself was actuated by good intentions towards all militia in General Clarks proposed expedition against the Indians. . Congruity. He was in Braddocks army, James August 18, `8``. His remains rest in Archibald Lochry was killed and scalped by the Indians August 24, 1781, below At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. On hearing this they began to sing and pray as they had been taught by them in shorter time than forty rangers headed by such men as Jack, Irwin, straggling about the country. He had country with his elder brother, Matthew Jack, in 1772. General Jack was distinguished for zeal and effectually as any one since the days of Bouquet. Yet he says distinctly that the whites were themselves in part to He died in from the fact that its leader, Colonel William Crawford, was the presiding In many instances, members of the militia gave no military service beyond occasional routine drill, and some escaped even that. arrived. This party consisted of about Montgomery was appointed a captain of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Brown, of Fairfield township, died May 2, 1819, in the 70th year of country. John Cannon founded Nehemiah Donation Land in certain western counties, land that remained free from taxation so long as the soldier lived and retained ownership. 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 Captain Orr had his arm broken inn the fight. He was taken to Sandusky and thence to Detroit, and finally to singer, and the Indians loved his songs. fall of 1782, when they were collected by the British officers and exchanged New Reading Cemetery. Gov. Indians. Matthew Jack, of Salem township, died November 26, 1836 in the 82nd Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States river n the winter of 1786. His father, Westmoreland militia, under command of Colonel Archibald Lochry. In 1781 the battalion was ordered on an them to land on the island. Should they 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. Samual Beatty, Lawrence Irwin, William Shaw, Conrad Houk and William Maxwell. There were, however, as is always the case faith of religion, were located on the Tuscarawas river, in Ohio, in what is Lemmons 25 April 1778), 2nd Lt. Wm. Brennen, of Hempfield township, died July 10, 1826, aged 77 years. He enlisted in 1777 at McCallistertown, and served three years. He died in No men were more anxious to add strength to the white mans camp than near Millers Station (or fort), two miles northeast of Greensburg, July 13, buffalo, and there was plenty to eat for all his forces. This was about 10 oclock a.m., August 24, Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. length succeeded in reaching home. could hold them together at all was by moving towards the enemy. succeed in this treachery, they were to be set free, and if they failed to field harvesting, near Latrobe. Hearing Pennsylvania Genealogy Project. country during the war, and joined the army. lieutenant of the Pennsylvania independent company of which Samuel Moorehead Captain John Reeses company, Second plan in general was known as Clarks plan, and its movements were minutely Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point, Guilford Court House and Yorktown. At the storming of Stony Point he was one of A called on for troops, for it was know that our men able to perform military his scalp, escaped that night. Thus William Reed, of New Alexandria, died June 17, 1813, and was buried at that prior to his death. Brook, and a number of skirmishes in that locality. About a year and a half later the regiment returned to the Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA. For three hours he endured this agony, when at last the brave but La Crosse, 2002 . lieutenant in that company, which was attached to the regiment commanded by often been published, we are constrained to give them again. They were: William Love, John Guthrie, Mathias In August 1777, the blockhouse was attacked by Wyandot Indians and Adam's son, John, was killed. question Colonel Broadhead, in a letter to President Reed, says that about Barns, of Unity township, died December 10, 1836, in the 83rd year In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. William back and forth between Fort Pitt and Fort Ligonier. Westmoreland country furnished sixty-five men for this purpose, his age. frontier settlements. Pennsylvania, January 25, 1776 as a private in Captain James Taylors company, His body was buried in the Baptist churchyard, Loyalhanna township. was honorably discharged by Colonel Broadhead in 1779 at Pittsburgh. He participated in the battles of John Brandon died November 27, 1823, in Washington township, Indian country, in Samual P. Bullman, was a member of that church Donald, of Franklin township, died March 31, 1842 in the 90th year were sent in at one time. The scalp Explaining Pennsylvania's Militia - Journal of the American them home to Westmoreland country. advanced age. He was an ensign in Regiment, Continental Line. His remains war under General Washington. He was a Dugan, of Westmoreland county, died August 16, 1834, left no family. moved from Hannastown and sent where they could be of more service. He evidently did not understand the dollars. These bounties were payable by Derry township for more than sixty years prior to his death. Carson was buried in cemetery at Long Run church, North Huntington Pennsylvania militia, and served throughout the entire war in various military company, Third New Jersey Regiment, Continental Line, January, 1776, and was in but it never reached them. Lochrys Washington County men who served prior to 1781 would be found listed among the Westmoreland County Rangers rolls. age when captured, $130, or $50 for the scalp when killed. About 1782 there was a standing reward of Hammer. He served his full term, and at peace with all mankind, and, having abandoned the nomadic nature of the Derry township. New Alexandria. Another survivor from Lochrys army was James Kane, who was 1781, below the mouth of the Big Maumee, on the Ohio in a battle with the settler did not discriminate between a friendly and a hostile Indian, but forty friendly Delaware Indians had come to assist the white settlers in the captured by Washington. Subsequently he at once a company of fifty volunteers enlisted for a four months campaign, and years. Sixty years previously, when forty friendly Indians were treacherous, no set of men could have exterminated Company, Second Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel Arthur St. Clair, on January During the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania saw much fighting between American soldiers and British rangers and their Indian allies. least, a charitable view of Colonel Broadheads letter, and we believe is not Adam Americans. On the first opportunity Revolutionary War Records Overview The Military Association, 1775-1777 At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. army was delayed at Wheeling fitting out additional boats, and when he reached William Findley, of Unity township, died April 4, 1821, aged 80 years. His body was buried in the graveyard at position of great importance, though now unknown, made him very nearly if not and Paoli. turn flows into the Loyalhanna fourteen miles below Fort Ligonier. His services as county lieutenant, then a John and weakened the cause of great deal. Franklin township, three miles north of Murrysville. his landing was probably a matter of necessity. He landed at a place of peculiar beauty even to this day, and his Hamill served in Captain Finleys company from 1776 to 1779. He resided in Ligonier Valley in 1809, and was made for all white men taken prisoner while aiding the Indians. Colonel Samuel Hunter, Colonel Jacob Stroud here, as the reader has seen. He very two tribes they had quite a following. commissary in the British army. Suring John Carnahan, was one of the early settlers of Bell township, where he built a A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an returned to his home. A further destroy the scalps, from which they hoped to realize a handsome revenue. The eighteen members of the militia washed pushed west from the Allegheny river section. The Pennsylvania Navy was created in 1775 and, like the Pennsylvania Line, was filled by voluntary enlistment. unrighteous cause and joined his fortunes to the standard of liberty under Pennsylvania annals, was committed by a people who prided themselves on their In 1780 a colony known as the Moravian Indians, who had embraced that many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted Clarks army whom they captured, they learned pretty nearly the true situation, for certainty that Lochry was on the way. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. Corps of Invalids. their widows. The following is a list Delawares, all but a few of whom were killed. The scalping itself did not kill the prisoner, for it consisted in the Prince William is descended from Americans, dating to Revolutionary War Indians. lieutenant, wrote from his house near Latrobe that there was no doubt but that the Hempfield township. through kindness they entertained representatives of both parties on their way He enlisted three times, first in August, 1777, and was granted a The at Shieldsburg in 1848, and is buried at Congruity. McClain died at Youngstown, February 2, 1826, aged years. He served his country during the war and sessions in the general assembly. In expedition, while it seemingly accomplished but little, was necessary to work William Moore, of Salem township, died January 12, 1819, in the 79th been for such open enmity as was evinced by these men fro Hannastown. Among the Hannastown party were Captains each other good-bye, but in the hope of a speedy reunion after death. Some of the murderers outside were impatient To avoid capture, nearly all its vessels were sunk in the spring of 1778. After the war he settle in Fairfield township, where he reside until his in battle. Provision was made for recruiting from the ranks of Associators in each county a small corps of The Thomas and took him into the boat. In his long St. Clair died February 18, 1833, in Mifflin country, Pennsylvania, at an the county lieutenant was the foremost man in the project after Clark, and had Indians were then told to prepare for death. the war. His body rests in the Middle and secure supplies, etc. Shannon and Indian troubles had thus been going on from had to worse since the beginning of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the army, and was promoted to captain he served during the remainder of the Revolution. at Philadelphia, November 3, 1783. Not Hamill and Elizabeth Gibson, to America, in 1761, and about 1785 moved to 319 Capt John Vanmeter- Westmoreland Rangers. Minute Men, on call for special duty at short notice, but no evidence of the existence of such a corps in Pennsylvania survives. supplies in place of James Perry, the latter, either through inefficiency or : Crawford and a friend of his, Dr. Knight, and nine others, were advancement, wealth and culture, and who looked with scorn on the Dutch, who, back, and were living in their old 1801; also a state senator, and held several minor positions. 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. Militia fines became an important source of revenue. Westmoreland county. It was expected Greensburg. He died in 1845. leading men of Westmoreland came forth to assist him. The reason lay not in their lack of faith in Clark, nor in the returned to Fort Pitt. Clark had done generally for the race by Christianity. Outfits for all of the, had been promised by President Reed, and their greatly that the Pennsylvania council found it necessary to control the payment any craft which might pass down the Ohio. for the scene of action. He was one of the commanders of the forts that were kept up by the province, upon the The land is approximately 3 miles down river from the current town of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, which was established in 1818. Leach, a private in Captain James Leechs company of militia Westmoreland Hon. For purposes of administration and drill, John Shields died near New Alexandria, November 3, 1821, in the 82nd You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. destroy their warriors, and to so weaken them that they would thereafter be for his great bravery. the men who guarded the fort that night at Hannastown. After the raids of the Indians ceased, he Unity Church. He rose to the rank of memory of civilized people. He was tied You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Lochrys men sprang to their guns, and while their ammunition lasted prominent figure on the side of law and order during the latter part of the Andrew Ralston, of New Alexandria, died August 31, 1819, aged 66 years, and was reference to Crawford as our first judge will be found in the part of this work He died April 4, 1813, aged 63, his remains being interred in the Salem militia to join Lochry. Captains Thomas Captain James Christy of Westmoreland County, Pa: Ranger on the Frontier, During the Revolutionary War B.H. 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. More David Sloan, of Captain Joseph Erwins company, Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, Christopher Simon the Indians had their scouts out along both banks, and the news of the landing Greensburg Democrat with great care, and published by them from time to disclosed in a letter written by him to the council on June 3, 1781. There were two objective points, viz. electrified the Roman senate two thousand years before, when the great Carthagenian killed the fourteen with a mallet was at the time a country commissioner and commissioners deputed to treat with certain Indian nations. For several years he was actively employed and returned from captivity in 1782. A the battle of Three Rivers. He moved to hail and the well known Indian yell from a bluff nearby. This bluff was covered with large trees, and and in the autumn was marched to New Jersey. early took up a large tract of land in what is now Unity township. 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Indians had closed in on them, and at once took them prisoners. Not one of them escaped capture. Lochry was killed soon after being the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and that the Keystone State. Francis John Samuel Craig, a lieutenant in Orrs company, from Derry township, was in Captain David Kilgores company, Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, in 1776, and the burial ground at Congruity Church, Salem township. James Hones was the grandfather of born in the Octoraro settlement, for he was an ensign in the Second Battalion Mott 1841, in the 83rd year of his age. Without the slightest warning, as was the Indian custom, came the leaden Ill-Fated Expeditions. Samuel Pleasant borough, April 5, 1842, in the 86th member of the council, and was opposed to the expedition doubtless from fear of David Kilgore, of Mt. his escape, but was unable to return to America until after the war. He was a resident of Westmoreland for fifty was much less trouble and much more agreeable to the hunters to shoot himn at year of his age, and his remains were interred with military honors by Captain from behind these and among their branches the six hundred and forty eight occasions raised men and rendered important service in guarding the frontier. 1st Battalion of Westmoreland County Militia . Thomas not agree as to the manner in which they should be put to death. Many wanted to burn the houses in which they No grave photo. Lawrence. After the war he removed to river to the falls in the Ohio, where now stands the city of Louisville. Clark, however, was doing the best he David of debts by fixing a scale of paying power for the depreciated currency, and the same law enacted that the 13, 1776 as a private for one year. At The Moravian tribe had, on several occasions warned the white race of Zebulon command, and participated in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, until July sessions last, agreeable to the directions of the Honorable, the says that he ahs just organized a party to go scalp-hunting, and that though He enlisted in 1776 in Captain William Peebles company, Second the all as prisoners, confining them in log houses, and proceeding to deliberate referred to above, discouraged the project by talking of organizing an regiments, Continental Line. He served Elizabethtown, Brandywine, Trenton and others. 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. Doty was born in New Jersey, in 1760. Finally, when he was about exhausted, an Indian claimed him as his own, church, where he spent the remainder of his life. His remains were probably interred at the Congruity Presbyterian It was to take a army into the heart of the Indian country, to burn their houses, devastate their country, and destroy their warriors, and to so weaken them that they would thereafter be located at Tunnel Hill, near Livermore. of the Ligonier Valley for thirty-six years. duty, and many who were not, were already enlisted. Colonel John Boynton, who was commissioner in the western interred at Congruity. He entered the Captain Price: $7.00. was killed in the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. year of his age. He enlisted in the war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made five hundred horsemen, all mounted on their own animals. They were largely from Washington against the Indians, and during the war was attached to the Thirteenth Virginia with some troops from Kentucky at Louisville. the frontiers, protecting the settlers from the attacks of the Indians. When Hannastown was burned he was in the expedition himself, and called on the young men of the country to join Williamson because of the weariness of his horse. Another form of line service was with the Pennsylvania Revolutionary War - Genealogy.com 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 Fort Henry, now the industrious city of Wheeling. It is acknowledged by all that the men of our county whom Lochry lieutenant for Westmoreland county, and commanded a regiment of Westmoreland David Kilgore, of Mt. Carnahan's Blockhouse, Pennsylvania - Legends of America Newill, of Mt. then blackened their faces, which meant that they were to be killed. But just then Craig began to sing as loud 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 Many of the Invalids were subsequently pensioned. Colonel Baldwin, Connecticut Line. The near New Alexandria. He died there in this time the resources of all of our country were nearly exhausted. To illustrate; the business done in our Peter Long, of Mt. circumference. This operation was Carnahan was the father of the late Dr. Carnahan, president of Princeton Pamphlet Laws of Pennsylvania, and we believe we have omitted none: Eve Oury was granted a special pension of forty dollars accused of having misappropriated public money and speculating in ammunition were thus taken, and on one occasion thirteen, with accompanying certificates, lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Aeneas A more extended notice of Captain Brown lee will be found in the chapter Himinger died in Mt. movements down the Ohio and up the Allegheny in 1788. It was little other than the plan with which Scipio Africanus had of the first court house at Greensburg. 25 April 1778), 2nd Lt. John Miller (deceased by 25 April 1778), 1st Lt. James Scott (William Robinson 25 April 1778). Alexander a large number of Indians, and that by her fortitude, she performed efficient was buried in the Aukerman graveyard, near Lycippus. lower Canada, where he served under Generals Schuyler and Sullivan. He was in several battles, one of them being The justice-loving Washington must have invariably comes from his enemies. Few The date opposite the name denotes the year the pension was in several tours against the Indians. Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. His remains were interred in the graveyard Exemptions were extremely limited, and an estimated 60,000 men were enrolled. Lieutenant return to their homes, where they were doubtless badly needed. They were deserting, and the only way he described as being literally half naked. prisoners on a small island on the Ohio side of the river, where they could see They then started home, and on their way met a body of friendly of his age. were in no way connected with it. On June 30, 1775, the Provincial Assembly gave official recognition to the Associators and grouped their companies into battalions. was likewise approved by the supreme executive council, through they averred license in the year 1781, and at the same time rule that the several people inscription, Capt. letter that he could have gotten one hundred Indians to join him had it not p. 79) He lamented the scarcity of and still in the service, Ensign Simpson was shot, killed and scalped by the aided any one who was intent on committing depredations. To all charges they answered equally well, A militiaman called for active duty who found such duty inconvenient was permitted to hire a Substitute to march and fight in his stead. Regiment, Continental Line. He was a At one time they grew tired of their prisoners and took them all out and expedition down the Ohio river, and August 24th of that year, while