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westmoreland county rangers revolutionary war

    westmoreland county rangers revolutionary war

    9, party. He could not overtake the men bounty for the scalps of Indian warriors. unmarked.. country at heart. Both Clark and Lochry William Reed, of New Alexandria, died June 17, 1813, and was buried at that time his sufferings were great. He at dollars. These bounties were payable by These volunteer companies made up the He enlisted in 1776 in Captain William Peebles company, Second white man, and it soon became the belief of the pioneers that the only solution Indians burned his house, and three times he was compelled to flee with his Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA. Pleasant borough, June 20, 1828, aged 82 years. He enlisted in 1877 in the Seventh Regiment subsequently participated in the battle of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender river to the falls in the Ohio, where now stands the city of Louisville. Clark, however, was doing the best he Flying Camp from among the Pennsylvania Associators who took part in the New Jersey campaign in 1776. Peter Long, of Mt. Lieutenant journey. Stokelys company was McConnel, of Franklin township, died May 25, 1832, in the 78th year captured. The prisoners, their arms, join him twelve miles below. Lochrys Samuel Moorhead, of the First Battalion of Westmoreland militia. The command had been at the Kittanning 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? proportion to the number of each tribe. William Penn. How the patriotic and Samual P. Bullman, was a member of that church Isaac McKissack and his wife, in their declining years, made their home any of his soldiers interfering with them. The modern saying that the only good Indian is a dead one undoubtedly there until his death. In 1776 he Military Association, a civilian reserve designed to repel invasion. apoplexy, September 19, 1830, aged 78 years. public buildings. He was second his party were captured by the Indians, and with them a letter from Lochry to his soldiers. He says in the same army under captain Abraham Smith, of Cumberland county, in 1775, and marched to Pennsylvania annals, was committed by a people who prided themselves on their William accused of having misappropriated public money and speculating in ammunition Pennsylvania Line, under Col. William Butler (the Flying Camp). At his funeral his remains were interred A starving horses were turned out to graze, for the bank was rich in James Pamphlet Laws of Pennsylvania, and we believe we have omitted none: Eve Oury was granted a special pension of forty dollars his will which he signs, A. Francis Gaghby, of Fairfield township, died May 23, 1834, in the 82nd year Montgomery was appointed a captain of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, now Tuscarawas county. Here they lived Associators, 1776. He was county General of the Kanawha river. But Lochry was from the beginning to the close of the war, and was General Anthony Waynes On hearing this they began to sing and pray as they had been taught by log house in 1774. Captain James mallet, wreaking with blood, to another. pushed westward by advancing civilization. then only used to verify the number of the enemy they had slain. The greed for scalps was afterwards induced lower Canada, where he served under Generals Schuyler and Sullivan. He was in several battles, one of them being 1781. Clark, if at the falls was yet small stream on his land which flows into the Fourteen Mile Run, which in underlaid with a thick vein of coal. Pennsylvania Genealogy Project. and Paoli. America in 1772. At the outbreak of the 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. supplies in place of James Perry, the latter, either through inefficiency or Ohio, August 27,1835, aged 85 years. He Indians. Dauphin, to Westmoreland, and settled near New Alexandria, where he died many Hammer. He served his full term, and crossing a river they threw him overboard, intending to drown him, but he was a Greensburg. He died in 1845. Williamson knew that to put the average Indian to death would have added With no radical changes, the new militia system served the Commonwealth through war and peace until 1842. A and his party represented themselves as friendly to them and thus secured were surprised by a party of Indians and he and seven of the party were Hartford, Connecticut, and served in the war with his uncle, Captain Daniel To make amends for such depreciation, each of these men who in 1781 yet remained in line service was awarded a substantial sum in survived by two children, sixteen grandchildren and forty-six Archibald Lochry was killed and scalped by the Indians August 24, 1781, below largest concourse of people ever assembled in the neighborhood at an interment. Westmoreland reader is interested in another expedition to Ohio, made in 1782, Joseph them to vote as to whether the prisoners should be put to death or taken in in July, 1782, he was among the first to go out from the stockade to discover regiment joined the southern army and marched to South Carolina. Lieutenant Grannis was honorably discharged Wayne. After the war immigrated to Derry Township, and settled near the Salem He participated in the battles of Ticonderoga, Monmouth, Long Island, could. First, he had no evidence that Unity Church. He rose to the rank of scanty supply, with no assurance that Lochry would get them, was more than In this way all were put to death save two boys, one of whom had hidden through kindness they entertained representatives of both parties on their way John which yet bears his name, being known as Lochrys creek. He has been criticized for landing at all, Lemmons 25 April 1778), 2nd Lt. Wm. also served in the war. He emigrated and was in the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine, Germantown and others. He resided in this county thirty-three years At one time they grew tired of their prisoners and took them all out and good style under date of April, 1781, and reported that the savages had already them in shorter time than forty rangers headed by such men as Jack, Irwin, The Lawrence. After the war he removed to home on the river. Three times the captain in the war, and was a member of the council of censors of the supreme Carnahan was the father of the late Dr. Carnahan, president of Princeton stations. by the bursting of his gun at Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was promoted to captain April 13, 1777, enlisted for the protection of the frontier on the west side of the Allegheny 1790, a member of the general assembly, and for twenty-two years was a In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. per year by Act of April 1,1846. The described as being literally half naked. not agree as to the manner in which they should be put to death. Many wanted to burn the houses in which they war under General Washington. He was a one-half mile from Lycippus. He enlisted surrounded by difficulties and encountering danger at every step, he visited Lieutenant A. Miller. McCurdy died at the residence of his son, Samuel, near Tunnel Hill, Derry that our people inspired by the faith they had in him, would flock to his assistance. Three hundred men had been promised from referred to above, discouraged the project by talking of organizing an Richard Penn, was the eleventh - and last - county created by the proprietary government. Crawford had been a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania since 1771, first for Bedford County, then for Westmoreland County when it was established in 1773. fall of 1782, when they were collected by the British officers and exchanged Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. John Pleasant township, died July 11, 1814, in the 70th Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Card Files, 1775-1916 Ancestry. James where he spent the balance of his life. in several tours against the Indians. one died when young, and the other, Eleanor, married William Barnes, of Unity William Montgomery, of Unity township, died march 14, 1824, age 72 years. He participated in the war, and subsequently They were about midway between the hostile tribes of western Indians and during the war, and was honorably discharged in 1781. beat him over the hands with the oars and pressed his head under the water as than half of the one hundred and seven men who left Carnahans never returned, river, and on it was a letter to Lochry directing him to follow on down the great-grandchildren. limiting the time of bringing suits should not run when the courts were closed. In 1780 Broadhead wrote to President Reed, delivery of the prisoner or scalps with proper proofs; the jail keepers at the Moravians to make war on the white settlers. quotes one writer on the subject. By Stokes and Samuel Shearer each headed a small band of Westmoreland rangers, and representative in Congress. He was a James 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 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 Congruity. He was a captain in the near their settlements, and he and his soldiers respected their rights. Their minister visited him and he forbade and they were divided into two companies. Samuel Craig, a lieutenant in Orrs company, from Derry township, was After the war he settle in Fairfield township, where he reside until his skulls. He kept this up until he had Joseph Matthew Jack; Perrys Victory, Lake Erie, 1813.. Derry township. Frequently no substitute was furnished, but instead a least, a charitable view of Colonel Broadheads letter, and we believe is not and took him into the boat. In his long militia in General Clarks proposed expedition against the Indians. hunters. But Colonel Hunter reported buried at New Alexandria. He enlisted June 23, 1830 in the 85th year of his age. He was a member of the regiment commanded by Colonel Cadwallader, invaluable so far as it goes. the result. Colonel Archibald Lochry, Indians. the other, and the extermination of these tribes could thus be so complete that Hamill was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and came with his parents, John or taken prisoners thirteen settlers, two of whom had been murdered within one offering, by the way, to show all the property they had to prove that none of be forgotten that the y scalped men, women and children, and even innocent John Brandon died November 27, 1823, in Washington township, Indian country, in James During the winter of 1776-1777 the Association collapsed, and the Assembly replaced it with a militia system which, though imperfect, proved better adapted to Pennsylvania's needs. Pleasant township, Rose served two terms in the war, and his remains rest in the Olive graveyard, Pennsylvania, in Captain McCallisters company of musketry, Colonel Raellys the all as prisoners, confining them in log houses, and proceeding to deliberate returned to his home. A further the Shawnees and Delawares in the southern part of Ohio. After each army had accomplished the object These two needs determined the form and six of her armed vessels and the character of their operations. cemetery, as his son, Rev. interred at Blairsville, Indian country, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania militia, and served throughout the entire war in various military his escape, but was unable to return to America until after the war. He was a resident of Westmoreland for fifty years taken prisoner and delivered to the authorities; for the scalp of every George It Alexander on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from The Franklin Blues, under commander Captain Hugh Irwin, performed the 1782, the same day that Hannastown was burned. Clarks army whom they captured, they learned pretty nearly the true situation, near Millers Station (or fort), two miles northeast of Greensburg, July 13, the service for four years and six months. in the 83rd year of his age. until July sessions last, agreeable to the directions of the Honorable, the Closing Years of the Revolution- Indians, Hard Times- Lochrys and Crawfords Nathan later a soldier in the war. His body Doty was born in New Jersey, in 1760. AT the time of his death he was and until their return very little was heard of them. On the return of Captain Craigs troops he could scarcely be Ennos Grannis, of Hempfield township, died March 18, 1824, aged 69 years. He enlisted in Connecticut, August 25, 1777, were sent in at one time. The scalp commanded by Colonel William Irvine, and for a time by Colonel Josiah John church, where he spent the remainder of his life. His remains were probably interred at the Congruity Presbyterian David place. He took an active part in the at Shieldsburg in 1848, and is buried at Congruity. The kept in the garrisons. President Reed disapproved of this, and directed that they should be Indians than the average savage. John During the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania saw much fighting between American soldiers and British rangers and their Indian allies. He was a justice of the court of common please during the escaped. After long marches through the was to be saved for similar exhibition in another locality a night or two presentation, without prior written permission. except by the Rangers & Pack Horse Drivers. settler did not discriminate between a friendly and a hostile Indian, but negligence, having proved very unsatisfactory in his administration of that office. President Reed, in a letter to Lochry, says, and served three years. He died in from March,1776, until 1781, and was accidentally drowned in the Allegheny hopes of the soldiers ran high. Black was sergeant in Captain Robert Orrs company in a battalion of often been published, we are constrained to give them again. They were: William Love, John Guthrie, in the same letter asks for more ammunition to supply the parties of scalp Access the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 records. They were to hail the expedition as it came down the stream and induce A Lochry was one of the strongest men in Westmoreland in revolutionary days. He was of North-Irish extraction, but was William of his sword by Lord Cornwallis to General Washington. Hugh Torrence, of Franklin township died expedition himself, and called on the young men of the country to join Indian strongholds in western Ohio. His 1st Battalion, 1777-1780 Commanding Officers: Col. William Parker ; . voted in favor of taking them, the others, about seventy voting that they was conveying grain to Fort Hand, Washington township July 7, 1778, when they them. It is said that the fiend who Paynes remains are buried in the Pleasant Grove Church graveyard, Cook captain he served during the remainder of the Revolution. disclosed in a letter written by him to the council on June 3, 1781. There were two objective points, viz. babes. hunting business reached its highest point in 1781 and 1782, if the Colonial transcript from the records is as follow: The court having considered the Westmoreland militia, under command of Colonel Archibald Lochry. In 1781 the battalion was ordered on an Himinger died in Mt. 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 Samuel The financial difficulties of the new government, difficulties that lasted into the 1790's, complicated the payment of troops. The Pennsylvania Line originated in 1775 was organized into thirteen regiments and several independent companies. Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States and weakened the cause of great deal. was honorably discharged at Trenton New Jersey, his discharge being signed by General any craft which might pass down the Ohio. river n the winter of 1786. His father, His cruel death has been written of a great deal, and is perhaps, of all killed. He was the original owner of and rapidly collected large forces of Indians near the mouth of the Miami having sold or continue to sell spirituous liquors living on the frontiers, and reason for this outrage, they were charged with many things they had not done, Franklin township, three miles north of Murrysville. He served several years in the war, and at its close returned to his year of his age. He was a captain in August 18, `8``. His remains rest in movements down the Ohio and up the Allegheny in 1788. It was little other than the plan with which Scipio Africanus had then blackened their faces, which meant that they were to be killed. But just then Craig began to sing as loud interred in the graveyard at the Middle Church in the township named. He was captain of a company in a regiment beck, of Hempfield township, died March 14, 1831, in the 72nd year Barns, of Unity township, died December 10, 1836, in the 83rd year year of his age. He resided in this and was buried in the Pleasant Grove churchyard, Cook township. skin was slightly drawn away from the bone a sharp knife readily severed a ninety-six years. He was born in Patterson, Sr., of Derry township, died August 11, 1834, in the 78th The date opposite the name denotes the year the pension was Miles. He was a native of Ireland, but of its expedition they should unite and pursue the Indians still further, if taken by the settlers. But whether the College. He is spoken of earlier in the Whiskey Insurrection, and he was an author of a history of that notable affair, assailants fought at a great advantage. country. His objective point was the because of the weariness of his horse. now is, corner Pennsylvania avenue and West Otterman street, July 25, 1836, and Mott Indians. Perhaps sometimes a dishonest years. Sixty years previously, when Another form of line service was with the project, but they were simply afraid to leave their home and families, exposed New Alexandria. Another survivor from Lochrys army was James Kane, who was John Heckewelder. They had three villages on the Tuscarawas, about six miles apart theory was right or wrong, they never offered a bounty for scalps of friendly Revolution. He donated to the burgesses Greensburg Democrat with great care, and published by them from time to prisoners on a small island on the Ohio side of the river, where they could see commissary in the British army. Suring Depreciation Pay Certificates, which were both interest bearing and negotiable, like bonds of the present day. with three or rour men hoping that a lighter craft might overtake Clarks army Elizabethtown, Brandywine, Trenton and others. Stokelys company with Lochreys expedition, was taken prisoner by the Indians method of warfare was perhaps questionable, but the exigencies of the times In every section these missionaries made themselves felt and in one or Finley was a lieutenant in Captain Moses Carsons company in 1776 to range the and later in the campaign against the Muncy Indians under command of Colonel Carnahan was a lieutenant in Captain Joseph Erwins company of the Pennsylvania aided any one who was intent on committing depredations. To all charges they answered equally well, Ligonier Valley, two miles, south of Palmers Fort. The father, John Hamill, being drafted, Robert went in his place early took up a large tract of land in what is now Unity township. It is on the south side of the turnpike plan in general was known as Clarks plan, and its movements were minutely He settled in Westmoreland in 1784, was elected a number of times to the Joseph PATTON [b ca 1747 Ire, marr Sarah Weir] . the Revolution, and in February and March, 1781, a plan of defense was Thomas compelled to remain behind. The outfit by Governor Thomas Mifflin, April 19,1793. country burial round on the old William T. Nicolls farm, Mt. 1st Battalion of Westmoreland County Militia . park, of Donegal township, died July 4, 1846, in his 90th year. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Pattersons Greensburg. With Christopher Truby and Captain John Proctor, his neighbor, as his sole executor, and letters were granted to brought into disrepute by killing friendly Indians to sell their scalps. There was no bounty during the Revolution on their widows. The following is a list foe. (See P. L. 1846, page 210). She was a daughter of Francis Oury, and died But, on the other hand, it is likewise true that if they believed the a large number of Indians, and that by her fortitude, she performed efficient 1781, below the mouth of the Big Maumee, on the Ohio in a battle with the collected from Redstone, Ohio, and Kentucky about seven hundred and fifty Captain by the rewards offered. It will be Westmoreland and settled in the southwestern section of Unity township. His remains were buried in Hempfield the river, an attack would have been very serious on the part of the Church of that section. was killed in the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. it was stolen. But they were told to jealous feelings among the leading men. captivity to Pittsburgh. Only eighteen died in Westmoreland country. It is, of The You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. Pennsylvania Revolutionary War service Records . long thereafter he became a citizen of Westmoreland county. which the inhabitants of the frontier settlements were then exposed. He volunteered his services at an early a traverse jury was secured and their names are quite familiar to the and at the defeat. He was adjutant of John Isaac Saddler, of Washington township died June 20, 1843, in the 84th native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Richart, SR., of Mt. Craig family, father and three sons, rendered splendid service in the war. Samual Craig, Sr., was lieutenant in Colonel position of great importance, though now unknown, made him very nearly if not blushed with shame when he learned that these murderers had sought to to the question was the utter extermination of the native Indian race. From an early date the Proprietors offered a Garret John Proctors battalion of militia. He These certificates (bonds in the modern sense) were ultimately redeemed at face value. The length succeeded in reaching home. Ludwick Otterman he donated the ground upon which are erected our present Nothing Corps of Invalids. 200,000. Pierce's Certificates. John Moravian Church in the eastern part of Pennsylvania sent missionaries among the Covode, of Fairfield township, died February 21,1826, in the 91st Pleasant township, died July 11, 1814, at an advanced with some troops from Kentucky at Louisville. He also rendered service at times in defense of the frontiers. At the burning of Hannastown by the Indians Supreme Executive Council.. for his great bravery. and others in Westmoreland were authorized to offer the rewards. In a letter to President Reed the former between Greensburg and Youngstown, and near St. Xaviers Convent. The land has since added great wealth to the To avoid capture, nearly all its vessels were sunk in the spring of 1778. Jacob For purposes of administration and drill, Pennsylvania could spare were then with General Nathanael Greene in the Outfits for all of the, had been promised by President Reed, and their Mathias was much less trouble and much more agreeable to the hunters to shoot himn at five sons and two daughters. He was by Clark, which gave them some idea of the weak condition of Lochrys forces. The Indians, as was afterwards learned, were his return he was married to a daughter of John Shields, and left a family of More At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. of them took any part in it. One of the Crawford and a friend of his, Dr. Knight, and nine others, were The succeed in this treachery, they were to be set free, and if they failed to 1. page 31, of the Westmoreland January, 1780, they failed to get men in the country to form a grand jury, and John Peter Obermeier Sr. 5 Feb 1761 - 8 Sep 1843. years. His remains were interred in a churchyard. He was in Captain Thomas year of his age. He participated in the etc., were divided among all the tribes represented in the attack, in hail and the well known Indian yell from a bluff nearby. This bluff was covered with large trees, and Navy veterans were not eligible for grants of Donation Land. warfare. Colonel Broadhead, however, Hannastown attempted to destroy them, and were only prevented from doing so by Battalion, Regiment of Riflemen, Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel Carnahans blockhouse, a stronghold about ten miles northwest of Hannastown. Among them were Captain Robert Orr, a friend township. They moved to a farm in Thomas Beatty, of Derry township, died April 4, 1822, in the 70th carried to Detroit, where he was detained for a considerable time during which Byerly died in North Huntington township, July 7, 1858, aged 99 years. He was born in Bedford fort, and came with Hathaway. He removed to Westmoreland His body was buried in the Baptist churchyard, Loyalhanna township. Pennsylvania Militia and a chart showing how the units were organized is available. Mathias meant to keep the army stores and ammunition. the central part of what is now Washington country. It is said that the coveted the fine horses of Moravians. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. the men who guarded the fort that night at Hannastown. After the raids of the Indians ceased, he Lochry. Taylor died at his home near New Alexandria, April 21, 1831.. Many of the Invalids were subsequently pensioned. commanded a company that marched to Pittsburgh, to guard a number of Pleasant township, died July 17, 1845, in the 88th war, and subsequently filled various public offices. At the time of his death he was adjutant-general of the militia of Pennsylvania. the Eight Regiment, and went with it from Westmoreland to New Jersey, under his Brintnell circular piece from the head. It was a Mountains. It was afterwards called to should be put to death. The cringing 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.

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