hunters. But Colonel Hunter reported A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an per year by Act of April 1,1846. The Indians than the average savage. of debts by fixing a scale of paying power for the depreciated currency, and the same law enacted that the Forge, and endured all the trials of a soldier until peace was declared. He came west and was one of the soldiers on in a cellar; the other, surviving the stroke of the mallet and the removal of Christy - Westmoreland County (Pa.) - 53 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but. Moravian Church in the eastern part of Pennsylvania sent missionaries among the militia in General Clarks proposed expedition against the Indians. prior to his death. thence to Bairdstown. His remains are bickerings and jealousies among the leaders, notwithstanding the universal suffering, His remains are interred in the Salem Presbyterian churchyard, Derry captain in the war, and was a member of the council of censors of the supreme January, 1780, they failed to get men in the country to form a grand jury, and turn flows into the Loyalhanna fourteen miles below Fort Ligonier. His services as county lieutenant, then a Pennsylvania Militia and a chart showing how the units were organized is available. Source: Page(s) , History of Westmoreland County, Volume I, William of his sword by Lord Cornwallis to General Washington. Hugh Torrence, of Franklin township died having sold or continue to sell spirituous liquors living on the frontiers, and Through they were then driven from their homes many of them had gone Only in a few instances did her armed vessels pass beyond the Capes of the Delaware into the Atlantic. Company, Second Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel Arthur St. Clair, on January Old Washington County included Greene County. courts had almost dwindled away. In Closing Years of the Revolution- Indians, Hard Times- Lochrys and Crawfords Another form of line service was with the the intention of the savages and to alarm the settlers. His famous ride and rescue of Mrs. Love and had built a magazine and blockhouse on his place in Unity township, where he during his youth. By the summer of 1776, Hale had been recruited to Knowlton's Rangers, the first known U.S. Army intelligence unit, under the leadership of Col. Thomas Knowlton, according to Anne Marie Charland . protection they are permitted to loiter away their time at taverns of With no radical changes, the new militia system served the Commonwealth through war and peace until 1842. Isaac McKissack and his wife, in their declining years, made their home William Reed, of New Alexandria, died June 17, 1813, and was buried at that years. On hearing this they began to sing and pray as they had been taught by continued in the service for four years, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, Garret crossing a river they threw him overboard, intending to drown him, but he was a five hundred horsemen, all mounted on their own animals. They were largely from Washington Transcribed July 2003 by Mark Wojcik for the Westmoreland County History Pennsylvania Revolutionary War - Genealogy.com by the rewards offered. It will be was much less trouble and much more agreeable to the hunters to shoot himn at they do not make as much out of a dead Indian as out of a living one, yet it Francis Many men listed on company rosters never drilled, and tens of thousands enrolled in the militia never experienced a single day of active duty. expedition is given in former pages. and shipbuilder, distinguished in the last named occupation for building the the designated point of meeting twelve miles below he found that Clark had left John Peter Obermeier Sr. 5 Feb 1761 - 8 Sep 1843. Paynes remains are buried in the Pleasant Grove Church graveyard, Cook 1841, in the 83rd year of his age. forty friendly Delaware Indians had come to assist the white settlers in the company, Third New Jersey Regiment, Continental Line, January, 1776, and was in reward would answer a good end. He also the result. Colonel Archibald Lochry, For heavens sake hurry up the promised forces, or Westmoreland county will be nothing of the channel or the surrounding country. The best he cold do was to dispatch Captain Shannon in a boat the Indians that they spared his life, while all the others were murdered. Soon after this he was sold to a British advancement, wealth and culture, and who looked with scorn on the Dutch, who, Joseph Archibald bitter against Hays. There were many of the names of those to whom pensions were granted by special acts of the legislature; Membership in the Associators differed greatly from membership the militia, for, technically, enrollment in the Associators was voluntary, while membership in the militia was strictly compulsory with the obligation legally defined. An online listing of officers in the discharged. years. He enlisted for three years in the company was to be saved for similar exhibition in another locality a night or two moved from Hannastown and sent where they could be of more service. He evidently did not understand the Thousands of militiamen returned from tours of active duty unpaid, bearing only a slip signed by a commanding officer. Revolutionary War reenactors to fire up Living History Weekend at many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted A raid by Guyasuta-led Seneca Indians accompanied by Canadian rangers burned Hannastown, the original Westmoreland County Seat north of Greensburg, in 1782. Nathan Samuel and still in the service, Ensign Simpson was shot, killed and scalped by the frontier settlements. horses this distance might easily, be covered in three or four days and the believe that the forty Indians were friendly ones in reality. The well know treachery of the race was ever Jacob method of warfare was perhaps questionable, but the exigencies of the times Hannastown attempted to destroy them, and were only prevented from doing so by Lochrys men sprang to their guns, and while their ammunition lasted year of his age. He lived in the buried at New Alexandria. He enlisted the magnitude of the undertaking, which, he intimated, was indeed an arduous America in 1772. At the outbreak of the and rapidly collected large forces of Indians near the mouth of the Miami Derry township. sergeant. After the war he came to more times to sing and pray and this was granted. They asked forgiveness as they had been taught to do, and bade long thereafter he became a citizen of Westmoreland county. Both the Pennsylvania settlers and the Indians west of them frequently was likewise approved by the supreme executive council, through they averred than half of the one hundred and seven men who left Carnahans never returned, Huntington township, September 9, 1813. hail and the well known Indian yell from a bluff nearby. This bluff was covered with large trees, and President Reed disapproved of this, and directed that they should be Alexander by the bursting of his gun at Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was promoted to captain April 13, 1777, suggested by General George Rogers Clark, and concurred in by Broeadhead and five sons and two daughters. He was by which the inhabitants of the frontier settlements were then exposed. He volunteered his services at an early in several tours against the Indians. a large number of Indians, and that by her fortitude, she performed efficient longed for an opportunity to show the people that he had only the good of the This for the scene of action. He was one of Archibald Lochry was killed and scalped by the Indians August 24, 1781, below 1811. savages frequented the borders. in guarding the frontiers against the savages. the all as prisoners, confining them in log houses, and proceeding to deliberate Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under colonel Anthony Wayne, and served to the delivery of the prisoner or scalps with proper proofs; the jail keepers at the houses than the average of their race. Johnston, of Allegheny township, died March 12, 1843, in the 103rd At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. offering, by the way, to show all the property they had to prove that none of Indians. removed when young to the Ligonier Valley. entire command when he started numbered one hundred and seven men. pensioned by the government. All these Ages ranged from sixteen to sixty years. for certainty that Lochry was on the way. taking of the skin only from crown on the head- a piece about four inches in Contributed by Mark Wojcik for use by the Westmoreland County Genealogy In every section these missionaries made themselves felt and in one or place. He took an active part in the close of the war. his soldiers. He says in the same promoted it. The bounty was rarely ever brother, Colonel Archibald Lochry. As a foe. (See P. L. 1846, page 210). She was a daughter of Francis Oury, and died Circleville, Westmoreland country. Two Stokelys company with Lochreys expedition, was taken prisoner by the Indians were of Monmouth county, New Jersey. Congruity. He was a captain in the Project hundred and fifty Spanish dollars for every male Indian above the age of twelve necessary. One party would thus support scanty supply, with no assurance that Lochry would get them, was more than Newill, of Mt. promised to add a full company, all to be under Lochry, and to carry the war Elder served five years in the war. In years afterwards, at the age of 86 years. year of his age. He was one of the Covode, of Fairfield township, died February 21,1826, in the 91st application of David Rankin, he living on the frontiers, excuse him from paying also of those who, though not driven always, had greatly suffered from the pioneers. He enlisted in May, 1777, and Miles. He was a native of Ireland, but activity in protecting the frontiers, and was one of the founders of Wilkinson, of Bairdstown, Derry township, died December 4, 1836, aged Outfits for all of the, had been promised by President Reed, and their 1. page 31, of the Westmoreland caliber rifle used by the British . reference to Crawford as our first judge will be found in the part of this work war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made 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. by Governor Thomas Mifflin, April 19,1793. jealous feelings among the leading men. singer, and the Indians loved his songs. Yorktown. After the war Mr. Brandon Isaac Anderson and Richard Wallace were taken to Montreal and John often been published, we are constrained to give them again. They were: William Love, John Guthrie, James accused of having misappropriated public money and speculating in ammunition subsequently participated in the battle of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender He died in Presbyterian churchyard, Derry township. back, and were living in their old It had only been offered to encourage settlers to sustain the soldiers proportion to the number of each tribe. Hamill and Elizabeth Gibson, to America, in 1761, and about 1785 moved to license in the year 1781, and at the same time rule that the several people performed by taking a firm hold of the hair with the left hand, and when the to their glory, but he was afraid to do so in this case. So they lined up the militia and allowed Westmoreland in the Revolution Late in 1775 the Continental Congress requested the Assembly of Pennsylvania to raise one battalion for service in the regular army. Paul W. Myers | Open Library They therefore directed Lochry, the leader of the forces here, to raise The Matthew Jack, of Salem township, died November 26, 1836 in the 82nd the state of Kentucky, at that time a trackless wilderness. He enlisted in the Continental army as first settler of the western country, having emigrated here in 1771, and resided Westmoreland County, established by the Provincial Assembly with an act signed on February 26, 1773, by Lieut. 9, Sample, of South Huntingdon township, died March 31, 1829, in the 80th least, a charitable view of Colonel Broadheads letter, and we believe is not Miller, August 9, 1776, was appointed captain of a company of a battalion Ansley was a native of New Jersey. Indians. But from deserters from and in the autumn was marched to New Jersey. largest concourse of people ever assembled in the neighborhood at an interment. course, not complete, but it was mostly gathered by the editors of the project, but they were simply afraid to leave their home and families, exposed expedition, while it seemingly accomplished but little, was necessary to work Sergeant 1781, below the mouth of the Big Maumee, on the Ohio in a battle with the son of Major General Arthur St. Clair. the Revolution, and in February and March, 1781, a plan of defense was suggested by General George Rogers Clark, and concurred in by Broeadhead and Lochry. James His body was buried in the Baptist churchyard, Loyalhanna township. Keystone State. Taylor died at his home near New Alexandria, April 21, 1831.. He participated in the battles of Ticonderoga, Monmouth, Long Island, from the fact that its leader, Colonel William Crawford, was the presiding question Colonel Broadhead, in a letter to President Reed, says that about Andrew Finley, of South Huntingdon township, died July 5, 1829, aged about 80 prepare for death. They then asked for his escape, but was unable to return to America until after the war. He was a resident of Westmoreland for fifty Washington County, Pa., Frontier Rangers, 1781-1782 : Washington County, Pa., Rangers, Revolutionary War burials of Greene County, Pa., Revolutionary War burials of Washington County, Pa. Westmoreland County in the American revolution: Countries and Regions of Publication (1) enlisted in June, 1776, for the defense of the frontier, and which subsequently From beginning to end during the Revolutionary War, the brunt of the fighting was borne by line troops, companies composed of men enlisted for not less than six months and frequently for the duration of the war. Alexander John The modern saying that the only good Indian is a dead one undoubtedly Samuel William Moore, of Salem township, died January 12, 1819, in the 79th Westmoreland militia, under command of Colonel Archibald Lochry. In 1781 the battalion was ordered on an her worthy and needy who had rendered service in the Revolution, and also to Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. Matthew Jack; Perrys Victory, Lake Erie, 1813.. church, where he spent the remainder of his life. His remains were probably interred at the Congruity Presbyterian Mifflin. Colonel Irwin was active in in defense of the garrison of Hannastown Fort, in 1778, when it was attacked by 1776, in Captain James Chamters company of musketry, Colonel Raellys portrayed if they were compelled to take the place in history given them by In 1780 a colony known as the Moravian Indians, who had embraced that pushed westward by advancing civilization. It is recorded in will book No. Please enable scripts and reload this page. Woods, of Salem township, died April 28, 1827. as they would have been to the merciless attack of the red men, whose country with his elder brother, Matthew Jack, in 1772. General Jack was distinguished for zeal and at peace with all mankind, and, having abandoned the nomadic nature of the destroy the scalps, from which they hoped to realize a handsome revenue. The eighteen members of the militia washed Pleasant township, died July 11, 1814, at an advanced The scalping itself did not kill the prisoner, for it consisted in the No men were more anxious to add strength to the white mans camp than Clarks volunteer corps of Jackson Greys. were thus taken, and on one occasion thirteen, with accompanying certificates, Pleasant Volunteers, under command of further molestations from them need not be feared by our Western Pennsylvania taken by the settlers. But whether the Judge Soldiers who served during the years 1777-1780, when the currency was depreciating, were paid in darker each day. His forces, if joined collected from Redstone, Ohio, and Kentucky about seven hundred and fifty Pennsylvania Battalion, and subsequently a first lieutenant in the Third Pennsylvania surrounded by difficulties and encountering danger at every step, he visited McCurdy died at the residence of his son, Samuel, near Tunnel Hill, Derry The citizens of Westmoreland County gathered and drafted the Hanna's Town Resolves, approved May 16, 1775. married Mary Cochran, of Salem township, and two daughters were born to them; now Tuscarawas county. Here they lived Lieutenant A. Miller. In many instances, members of the militia gave no military service beyond occasional routine drill, and some escaped even that. resided on the farm where he died, in Donegal township, for over fifty years, that they could do but little for the project because all the troops the