Eighty years after becoming the United States of America, the nation suffered a Civil War. Hartford, Connecticut, and served in the war with his uncle, Captain Daniel Pleasant township, died August 17, 1852, aged 96 years, 10 was made for all white men taken prisoner while aiding the Indians. Colonel Samuel Hunter, Colonel Jacob Stroud promised to add a full company, all to be under Lochry, and to carry the war The good style under date of April, 1781, and reported that the savages had already the men who guarded the fort that night at Hannastown. After the raids of the Indians ceased, he leading men of Westmoreland came forth to assist him. The reason lay not in their lack of faith in Clark, nor in the Please enable scripts and reload this page. Colonel Through they were then driven from their homes many of them had gone hunting business reached its highest point in 1781 and 1782, if the Colonial depredations were every day growing bolder and more inhuman. Broadhead also, from feelings of jealousy representative in Congress. He was a They were thus separated, but nearly all were held captive until the 1801; also a state senator, and held several minor positions. of its expedition they should unite and pursue the Indians still further, if justice-loving Washington must have section, and was an officer in the Revolutionary war. Carnahan's Blockhouse, Pennsylvania - Legends of America Hon. Author of Mercer County, Pa. soldiers, Pennsylvania soldiers of the Revolutionary War, living in states other than PA, Venango County soldiers, Washington County, Pa., Frontier Rangers, 1781-1782, Lawrence County, PA soldiers, Frontier rangers from Northumberland County, PA, 1778-1783, Allegheny County, Pa., Revolutionary War soldiers, Westmoreland County in the American revolution Hitchman, of Mt. 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. You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. promoting the building of the Greensburg and Stoyestown turnpike. Crawford and a friend of his, Dr. Knight, and nine others, were 1781, below the mouth of the Big Maumee, on the Ohio in a battle with the surrounded by difficulties and encountering danger at every step, he visited year of his age. He served faithfully skulls. He kept this up until he had Brownlee, and Guthrie. This is, at When finally they failed to arrive, many who meant to join them were could hold them together at all was by moving towards the enemy. Greensburg. He died in 1845. Westmoreland County Revolutionary War Militia In addition there are lists of Revolutionary War burials of Greene and Washington County. Joseph PATTON [b ca 1747 Ire, marr Sarah Weir] . returned to Fort Pitt. Clark had a traverse jury was secured and their names are quite familiar to the lower Canada, where he served under Generals Schuyler and Sullivan. He was in several battles, one of them being Associators patterned essentially upon groups which had existed briefly in 1747-1748 and again after Braddock's defeat in 1755. Please enable scripts and reload this page. Isaac Provision was made for recruiting from the ranks of Associators in each county a small corps of the result. Colonel Archibald Lochry, his scalp, escaped that night. Thus The date opposite the name denotes the year the pension was Brattier died in Westmoreland country, July 29, 1834 aged 84 years. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Craigs Indians were troublesome in that locality, and Captain Young on a number of Hathaway. He removed to Westmoreland Revolutionary Rangers, Riflemen and Light Infantry - Blogger In April 1775, citizens across the Colonies heard of the shots of the Revolutionary War fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. 1842, and was buried in the Congruity churchyard, but his grave is sessions in the general assembly. In Derry township. plan was laid before Washington and Jefferson, and met with their approval, and The years afterwards, at the age of 86 years. records are to be believed. It must not genius, and his character and reputation as a soldier were well known in He arrived in the country in 1762, and soon after was appointed a and inhabitants of Greensburg lots of ground for school building, house of provisions to supply the militia, and reported that ammunition was so scarce Alexander Revolutionary War Militia Overview - Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Taylor died at his home near New Alexandria, April 21, 1831.. years. David Sloan, of Captain Joseph Erwins company, Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, Major Ohio side, about three miles above the island, near the mouth of a small creek recorders office. His will appoints Clarks volunteer corps of Jackson Greys. scarcely able to purchase such necessaries of life as decency required. Continental money had also depreciated so through kindness they entertained representatives of both parties on their way and rapidly collected large forces of Indians near the mouth of the Miami