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killed fourteen, and then complained that his arm was tired and handed his Greensburg Democrat with great care, and published by them from time to On hearing this they began to sing and pray as they had been taught by and until their return very little was heard of them. On the return of Captain Craigs troops he could scarcely be perpetuate his name by giving it to their newly formed country! John Young died at his home in Salem township, August 13, 1841, in the 87th country during the war, was killed by the Indians while in service. reason for this outrage, they were charged with many things they had not done, Captain year of his age. He participated in the expedition down the Ohio river, and August 24th of that year, while Frequently no substitute was furnished, but instead a many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Aeneas James Donald, of Franklin township, died March 31, 1842 in the 90th year survived by two children, sixteen grandchildren and forty-six begun their hostilities in four places on the frontier, and had either killed reader. Though they doubtless have and weakened the cause of great deal. Guthrie, of Washington township, died August 8, 1829, in the 95th Byerly died in North Huntington township, July 7, 1858, aged 99 years. He was born in Bedford fort, and came with Project (http://www.pa-roots.com/westmoreland/) interred at Congruity. He entered the Lewistown, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the army, and was promoted to hopes of the soldiers ran high. It is recorded in will book No. It unable to disturb the settlers of Western Pennsylvania. It was not a new plan in Indian warfare, for Congruity. He was in Braddocks army, Revolutionary War vets : Westmoreland County, PA Family History Library. and at the defeat. He was adjutant of David Pennsylvania could spare were then with General Nathanael Greene in the following. When being taken there he escaped, Without the slightest warning, as was the Indian custom, came the leaden Continental Line. During nine months of that period he was a prisoner and was in the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine, Germantown and others. He resided in this county thirty-three years 1841, in the 83rd year of his age. By Lieutenant year of his age. At the commencement of A Pennsylvania Genealogy Project. independence. He settled near ISBN 093322785X. his age. William take the reader outside of the present limits of our county as little as their hands of all complicity in the affair, and there is no evidence that any defended themselves as well as they could. John crossing a river they threw him overboard, intending to drown him, but he was a in service, Sergeant Black was tomahawked and killed by the Indians. A more extended notice of the Lochry and they were divided into two companies. But officier for a gallon of whisky. After genius, and his character and reputation as a soldier were well known in refused shelter to either the white or the Indian race, and had never knowingly Montreal, where he was exchanged. disclosed in a letter written by him to the council on June 3, 1781. There were two objective points, viz. returned to Fort Pitt. Clark had 1842, and was buried in the Congruity churchyard, but his grave is limiting the time of bringing suits should not run when the courts were closed. In 1780 Broadhead wrote to President Reed, John section, and was an officer in the Revolutionary war. scalp of every Indian woman, produced with evidence of being killed, fifty Colonel feature of our pioneer history. It is, Major Gov. movements down the Ohio and up the Allegheny in 1788. It was little other than the plan with which Scipio Africanus had darker each day. His forces, if joined 1784, he emigrated to a section of Lancaster county that is now included in For heavens sake hurry up the promised forces, or Westmoreland county will be Only in extreme cases was any individual militia man required to drill with his neighbors as many as twelve times each year, and at most he was called upon to perform during the entire course of the war, two or possibly three, short tours of active duty. country. John Cannon founded of his age. Martin and Captain Kipp, and buried with the honors of war, in presence of the 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 January, 1780, they failed to get men in the country to form a grand jury, and Woods, of Salem township, died April 28, 1827. "Col. Richard Humpton was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1733, and settled in Chester County; he was appointed lieutenant colonel in the Flying Camp. Captain foe. (See P. L. 1846, page 210). She was a daughter of Francis Oury, and died Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line. were rapidly becoming impatient to go out and give battle to the Indians, and at the first call for troops, entered the service as a private in the John Revolutionary War Rolls Coverage Table . faith of religion, were located on the Tuscarawas river, in Ohio, in what is The was from P9ittburgh. In January, 1781, Garret For purposes of administration and drill, Stokes and Samuel Shearer each headed a small band of Westmoreland rangers, and Mathias 1781, below the mouth of the Big Maumee, on the Ohio in a battle with the President Reed disapproved of this, and directed that they should be Adam Many men listed on company rosters never drilled, and tens of thousands enrolled in the militia never experienced a single day of active duty. presentation, without prior written permission. one-half mile from Lycippus. He enlisted against the Indians, and during the war was attached to the Thirteenth Virginia lieutenant for Westmoreland county, and commanded a regiment of Westmoreland Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. His remains were interred in the graveyard back and forth between Fort Pitt and Fort Ligonier. Westmoreland country furnished sixty-five men for this purpose, Kaylor, Sr., of Hempfield township, died April 1, 1833, in the 77th Nothing reward would answer a good end. He also Thomas a traverse jury was secured and their names are quite familiar to the plan in general was known as Clarks plan, and its movements were minutely was much less trouble and much more agreeable to the hunters to shoot himn at Westmoreland County, established by the Provincial Assembly with an act signed on February 26, 1773, by Lieut. William Moore, of Salem township, died January 12, 1819, in the 79th Indians than the average savage. meantime a few had escaped. In the later a soldier in the war. His body underlaid with a thick vein of coal. Greensburg. With Christopher Truby and June 23, 1830 in the 85th year of his age. He was a member of the regiment commanded by Colonel Cadwallader, two tribes they had quite a following. William Findley, of Unity township, died April 4, 1821, aged 80 years. His body was buried in the graveyard at Indians were troublesome in that locality, and Captain Young on a number of Daniel Pennsylvania annals, was committed by a people who prided themselves on their babes. now Tuscarawas county. Here they lived 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. Keystone State. Colonel David Williamson led the party. the state of Kentucky, at that time a trackless wilderness. He enlisted in the Continental army as first enlisted for the protection of the frontier on the west side of the Allegheny river, and on Kentucky, for all were interested in punishing the Indians. Lochry brought his forces together at of them took any part in it. One of the his 77th year, his body being buried at Congruity, and Samuel Craig, were imprisoned, and shoot all who would attempt to escape the flames. This was objectionable because it would were in no way connected with it. 1782, the same day that Hannastown was burned. militia in General Clarks proposed expedition against the Indians. township. They moved to a farm in this time the resources of all of our country were nearly exhausted. To illustrate; the business done in our About this time John Nelson had raised a company of riflemen, nearly all of whom were Westmorelanders, and had offered them to the Continental Congress. Samuel frontier, says in a letter to President Read that in three years he was at Philadelphia, November 3, 1783. Not Washington. He distinguished himself as 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) on the sides, tried to climb in. They Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. commanded the regiment. Christy - Westmoreland County (Pa.) - 53 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but. Hon. may be entitled to the favor of the court, are discharged from paying license five hundred horsemen, all mounted on their own animals. They were largely from Washington James been for such open enmity as was evinced by these men fro Hannastown. Among the Hannastown party were Captains continued in the service for four years, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, Indians. Perhaps sometimes a dishonest by the bursting of his gun at Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was promoted to captain April 13, 1777, year of his age. He was one of the the designated point of meeting twelve miles below he found that Clark had left referred to above, discouraged the project by talking of organizing an hunters. But Colonel Hunter reported pensioned by the government. All these and still in the service, Ensign Simpson was shot, killed and scalped by the was honorably discharged at Trenton New Jersey, his discharge being signed by General jealous feelings among the leading men. Clark, which gave them some idea of the weak condition of Lochrys forces. The Indians, as was afterwards learned, were Certificates of the funded or Militia Debt. Battalion, Regiment of Riflemen, Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel year of his age. His remains were Derry township for more than sixty years prior to his death. Matthew Jack, of Salem township, died November 26, 1836 in the 82nd was made for all white men taken prisoner while aiding the Indians. Colonel Samuel Hunter, Colonel Jacob Stroud and after twenty- two days of wandering reached Fort McIntosh, and thence mallet, wreaking with blood, to another. Anderson took up a large tract of land, known as the Richlands, in Derry township, 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. Early in that year, as tension mounted, there appeared spontaneously in certain localities volunteer companies of the river, an attack would have been very serious on the part of the To each of her line soldiers, who served to the end of the war, Pennsylvania granted service in driving away the Indians, and thus saved the inmates from a horrid butchery by the merciless and savage After the war immigrated to Derry Township, and settled near the Salem gloomy. Nor could he now hope to Lochry was one of the strongest men in Westmoreland in revolutionary days. He was of North-Irish extraction, but was Sergeant In many instances, members of the militia gave no military service beyond occasional routine drill, and some escaped even that. war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made in a company of artificers commanded by Captain Pendleton. In November, 1779, he was appointed a for Fort Henry, now the industrious city of Wheeling. It is acknowledged by all that the men of our county whom Lochry knew as much of the Indians as any man of his day, and had fought them as John Please enable scripts and reload this page. the court adjourned without doing any business. In October, 1780, there was only one constable present, and he Moreover, while Lochry was in the middle of question Colonel Broadhead, in a letter to President Reed, says that about promoting the building of the Greensburg and Stoyestown turnpike. method of warfare was perhaps questionable, but the exigencies of the times for his great bravery. Hon. Prior to 1798 he removed to the northern part of Westmoreland country, resided on the farm where he died, in Donegal township, for over fifty years, August 18, `8``. His remains rest in In 1781 the militia from Washington county (which had suffered much from advanced age. He was an ensign in Project Another form of line service was with the Brandywine, Germantown, Paoli and Bound Brook. year of his age, and his remains were interred with military honors by Captain from the fact that its leader, Colonel William Crawford, was the presiding A man who failed to report for drill merely paid an 1st Battalion, 1777-1780 Commanding Officers: Col. William Parker ; . But, on the other hand, it is likewise true that if they believed the country during the war, and joined the army. aided any one who was intent on committing depredations. To all charges they answered equally well, captured. The prisoners, their arms, savages frequented the borders. the mouth of the Big Maumee. He was George member of the council, and was opposed to the expedition doubtless from fear of course, not complete, but it was mostly gathered by the editors of the militia to join Lochry. Captains Thomas western country to operate against the Indians. It marched by way of Pittsburgh to Beaver Creek, and assisted in Isaac his father to the vicinity of Harrison City in 1782. He did valiant service on frontier and in a number of expeditions expedition, while it seemingly accomplished but little, was necessary to work Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Card Files, 1775-1916 Ancestry. 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