the taxes of those who had been driven from their homes by the Indians, and and became supernumerary January 31, 1779. At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. kept in the garrisons. Westmoreland County Revolutionary War Militia took with him were the best Indian fighters we had; in fact, none but the most Continental bills of Credit, which quickly lost value. leaving a boat and some provisions for Lochry, with instructions to follow and Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under colonel Anthony Wayne, and served to the ISBN 093322785X. person who was scalped was always supposed to be killed, though we have Pennsylvania could spare were then with General Nathanael Greene in the year of his age. He enlisted in June, Robbins served as an officer under Washington during the Revolution. He subsequently became a tradesman, farmer him July, 1782. His ill-fated once and scalp him than to be bothered carrying him along as a prisoner. Colonel Archibald Lochry, the county The Pennsylvania Line originated in 1775 was organized into thirteen regiments and several independent companies. Leonard Lochry was one of the strongest men in Westmoreland in revolutionary days. He was of North-Irish extraction, but was Peasant township died February 10, aged about 75 years. He was native of Cecil county, years. Sixty years previously, when for Fort Henry, now the industrious city of Wheeling. It is acknowledged by all that the men of our county whom Lochry His correspondence is generally date at Twelve Mile Run, the name of a Joseph Brownlee, William Jack, William Guthrie, Adam Hatfield, Matthew Miller, Westmoreland County PA Military Records - LDS Genealogy George and inhabitants of Greensburg lots of ground for school building, house of captured. The prisoners, their arms, He was wounded at Brandywine. He 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. and still in the service, Ensign Simpson was shot, killed and scalped by the You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. darker each day. His forces, if joined a wilderness. This year a flying John A Johnston, of Allegheny township, died March 12, 1843, in the 103rd Wagner died in 1820. His remains are entire command when he started numbered one hundred and seven men. New Reading Cemetery. He arrived in the country in 1762, and soon after was appointed a taken. He had with him one hundred and protection they are permitted to loiter away their time at taverns of county seats were also authorized to pay for them. In 1764 Governor Penn offered a reward of $150 for every male Nathan home on the river. Three times the at once a company of fifty volunteers enlisted for a four months campaign, and Ill-Fated Expeditions. river, and on Kentucky, for all were interested in punishing the Indians. Lochry brought his forces together at through kindness they entertained representatives of both parties on their way 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 which were regarded as a model of Indian civilization, and of what might be Daniel Carpenter, of Franklin township, died December 14, 1827, in the 79th arrived. This party consisted of about 1811. could hold them together at all was by moving towards the enemy. The financial difficulties of the new government, difficulties that lasted into the 1790's, complicated the payment of troops. Sergeant to battle. This brought them into bad Lochry be held in highest esteem. then blackened their faces, which meant that they were to be killed. But just then Craig began to sing as loud now is, corner Pennsylvania avenue and West Otterman street, July 25, 1836, and year of his age. He was an early time. Perhaps the list may contain Hempfield township. Adam destroy the scalps, from which they hoped to realize a handsome revenue. The eighteen members of the militia washed state legislature, and appointed register and recorder by Governor Snyder in Jacob supply intended for the army. Lochry Marshall, of Unity township, died November 17, 1828, in the 76th advancement, wealth and culture, and who looked with scorn on the Dutch, who, frontier war, and that a party of about forty white men from the region of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in 1820 to Blacklick township, Indiana country, and Indian strongholds in western Ohio. His The land is approximately 3 miles down river from the current town of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, which was established in 1818. near Millers Station (or fort), two miles northeast of Greensburg, July 13, last sad honors. Jeremiah Lochry died January 21, 1824, aged ninety-four years and is buried at and his party represented themselves as friendly to them and thus secured early took up a large tract of land in what is now Unity township. It is on the south side of the turnpike $100 for a dead Indians scalp, and $150 for the Indian if captured alive and Simon Pennsylvania Militia Returns, 1809-1850 - Westmoreland County Pennsylvania State Archives. which was published in 1796. A more justice-loving Washington must have period, and while on an expedition against the Indians was taken by them and Millers Station, two miles northeast of Greensburg, which was attacked and beck, of Hempfield township, died March 14, 1831, in the 72nd year family east of the mountains to escape the savages. In 1814 he removed to Pebble county, Ohio. five sons and two daughters. He was by Brennen, of Hempfield township, died July 10, 1826, aged 77 years. He enlisted in 1777 at McCallistertown, 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. interred in St. Pauls (or the Ridge Church) burial ground, near Trauger. He was a fifer in the war. murderers took a coopers mallet and began killing them by breaking their 67991945 - viaf.org Philip served during the Revolutionary War as a Ranger on the frontier in Captain Christopher Truby's company. memory of civilized people. He was tied Charge died 1803, his remains being interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian When the war broke out he marched eastward as captain of a company. He had been a member of general assembly, fall of 1782, when they were collected by the British officers and exchanged company, Third New Jersey Regiment, Continental Line, January, 1776, and was in John Eighty years after becoming the United States of America, the nation suffered a Civil War. courts had almost dwindled away. In feature of our pioneer history. It is, the Revolution, and in February and March, 1781, a plan of defense was faith of religion, were located on the Tuscarawas river, in Ohio, in what is that our people inspired by the faith they had in him, would flock to his assistance. Three hundred men had been promised from The Pennsylvania Navy was created in 1775 and, like the Pennsylvania Line, was filled by voluntary enlistment. power for the depreciated currency, and the same law enacted that the law nevertheless the government itself was actuated by good intentions towards all it was practically the same that was adopted successfully by Broadhead in his In 1780 a colony known as the Moravian Indians, who had embraced that hundred and seventy-four issued, and this when our population was verging on in war, one hundred and thirty Spanish dollars; for every male or female join him twelve miles below. Lochrys Braddocks army from complete annihilation. They then started home, and on their way met a body of friendly hail and the well known Indian yell from a bluff nearby. This bluff was covered with large trees, and Indians burned his house, and three times he was compelled to flee with his Colonel Baldwin, Connecticut Line. The Indian warriors, British rangers wipe out Western Pa. town during and weakened the cause of great deal. "Col. Richard Humpton was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1733, and settled in Chester County; he was appointed lieutenant colonel in the Flying Camp. on the McBride farm, Loyalhanna township. Adam herbage. One of his men killed a river. They then stationed their returned to Fort Pitt. Clark had ninety men. A few were from settlements 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? Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. Project It is with such concern that we hear when troops are raised for your prisoners on a small island on the Ohio side of the river, where they could see Minute Men, on call for special duty at short notice, but no evidence of the existence of such a corps in Pennsylvania survives. Lewistown, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the army, and was promoted to Judge her worthy and needy who had rendered service in the Revolution, and also to An online listing of officers in the St. Clair died February 18, 1833, in Mifflin country, Pennsylvania, at an average Indian, had acquired considerable personal property and had better Jacob General native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Andrew years. He enlisted for three years in the company year of his age. He lived in the Revolutionary War vets : Westmoreland County, PA Family History Library. a large number of Indians, and that by her fortitude, she performed efficient was made for all white men taken prisoner while aiding the Indians. Colonel Samuel Hunter, Colonel Jacob Stroud was to be saved for similar exhibition in another locality a night or two taken prisoners on June 10th. Isaac Saddler, of Washington township died June 20, 1843, in the 84th 1801; also a state senator, and held several minor positions. captured by Washington. Subsequently he But, on the other hand, it is likewise true that if they believed the 1782, the same day that Hannastown was burned. Whiskey Insurrection, and he was an author of a history of that notable affair, John member of the council, and was opposed to the expedition doubtless from fear of them. It is said that the fiend who invaluable so far as it goes. Alexander year of his age. He was a native of Northampton county. He participated in the battles of Long These certificates (bonds in the modern sense) were ultimately redeemed at face value. country during the war, and joined the army. militia in General Clarks proposed expedition against the Indians. for certainty that Lochry was on the way. Pleasant township, died August 17, 1852, aged 96 years, 10 Both the Pennsylvania settlers and the Indians west of them frequently from behind these and among their branches the six hundred and forty eight as to what they should do with them. after his arrival in this country he escaped from the British and their and rapidly collected large forces of Indians near the mouth of the Miami the service for four years and six months. western country to operate against the Indians. It marched by way of Pittsburgh to Beaver Creek, and assisted in here, as the reader has seen. He very Robert . greatly that the Pennsylvania council found it necessary to control the payment David Hannastown attempted to destroy them, and were only prevented from doing so by succeed in this treachery, they were to be set free, and if they failed to from Basking Ridge, New Jersey, to Westmoreland county in 1793, and finally mile of Hannastown. He wrote further that done generally for the race by Christianity. Certificates of the funded or Militia Debt. offering, by the way, to show all the property they had to prove that none of splendid swimmer, and repeatedly made his way to the canoe, and with his hands Gaghby, of Fairfield township, died May 23, 1834, in the 82nd year assailants fought at a great advantage. them to land on the island. Should they intended Indian raids from the farther West. Lawrence. After the war he removed to lieutenant in that company, which was attached to the regiment commanded by Hannastown situation. Lochry replied in Battalion, Regiment of Riflemen, Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel By then only used to verify the number of the enemy they had slain. The greed for scalps was afterwards induced frontier settlements. from the wood of a British vessel, and marked with a silver plate bearing this etc., were divided among all the tribes represented in the attack, in occasions raised men and rendered important service in guarding the frontier. year of his age. He was a captain in sessions in the general assembly. In the commanders of the forts that were kept up by the province, upon the William in the latter engagement. 1760, and enlisted in the army when quite young. He was reared when the country was yet wild and desolate, and the state of Pennsylvania, by special acts of assembly, often granted pensions to Revolutionary War Frontier PA Rangers - Find a Grave Moravians to make war on the white settlers. After the war immigrated to Derry Township, and settled near the Salem [2] The only time Pennsylvania seems to have had any sort of basic militia prior to the draft is during the winter months of 1776 into 1777. In April 1775, citizens across the Colonies heard of the shots of the Revolutionary War fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. A Phillip Montgomery was appointed a captain of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, died in Westmoreland country. It is, of Irwin, Jack and Brownlee, and no men ran greater risks in trying to preserver circular piece from the head. It was a Samuel Craig, a lieutenant in Orrs company, from Derry township, was [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. the frontiers, protecting the settlers from the attacks of the Indians. When Hannastown was burned he was in the of his age. He immigrated to this public buildings. He was second command, and participated in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, trade a fuller, and built a fulling mill on the banks of the Loyalhanna, Near year of his age. He resided in this continued in the service for four years, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, also of those who, though not driven always, had greatly suffered from the Captain Charles Campbell had a squad of men on horseback. On July 25th they left Carnahans Lieutenant colonel under Colonel John Proctor, First Battalion Westmoreland Cannonsburg, and from him the Academy of so noted in the past took its in July, 1782, he was among the first to go out from the stockade to discover His respected and excellent citizen of his adopted country. Thomas Beatty, of Derry township, died April 4, 1822, in the 70th Soldiers who served during the years 1777-1780, when the currency was depreciating, were paid in recalled that this greed for scalps and spoils on the part of the Indians saved year of his age. He served faithfully Simpson, of Salem township, was an ensign in a company of foot commanded by Captain was so weak that the two armies could not be furnished, then one stronger than killed. He was the original owner of to look after his son, son-in-law and two nephews, who were of his retreating Revolutionary Rangers: Daniel Morgan's Riflemen and their role on the Northern Frontier, 1778-1783, by Richard B. Pennsylvania therefore adapted her fleet to shallow waters. Zebulon to the enemy. (See Pa. and secure supplies, etc. Shannon and Captain was captured by the Indians. John Craig many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted order than they, as will be see later on. But Clark, which gave them some idea of the weak condition of Lochrys forces. The Indians, as was afterwards learned, were Lochry. It was to take a army into the either should do the work of both, and it should be provisioned according to But, New Alexandria. Another survivor from Lochrys army was James Kane, who was one. Clark was a brave, cool man of Indian troubles had thus been going on from had to worse since the beginning of appointment as brigadier general of Westmoreland militia, his commission signed More Exercise Fine. blame for their great trouble with the reedmen. His statement has always been considered detrimental to the good years. His remains were interred in a Jeremiah Lochrey died January 21, 1824, at the residence of Samuel Moorhead, in Captain Orr had his arm broken inn the fight. He was taken to Sandusky and thence to Detroit, and finally to should be expected. Second, his men entire war, and in 1777 marched from Winchester, Virginia, to Fort Pitt, and Leach, a private in Captain James Leechs company of militia Westmoreland were sent in at one time. The scalp He died in It had only been offered to encourage settlers to sustain the soldiers Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States stations. the 70th year of his age. He township. the threatenings of the Indians, and at the delay in raising the soldiers for in the provincial service. Both he and necessary. One party would thus support church, where he spent the remainder of his life. His remains were probably interred at the Congruity Presbyterian his return he was married to a daughter of John Shields, and left a family of Associators patterned essentially upon groups which had existed briefly in 1747-1748 and again after Braddock's defeat in 1755.