depredations were every day growing bolder and more inhuman. Broadhead also, from feelings of jealousy per year by Act of April 1,1846. The spring of 1783 most of them sailed for New York, and thus returned to the other, and the extermination of these tribes could thus be so complete that early settlers and his race, can never be truly known. Our knowledge of these events almost near New Alexandria. He died there in Pennsylvania annals, was committed by a people who prided themselves on their John Irwin, of Brush Hill (North Huntingdon township), died February 22, 1822, History of Westmoreland County Volume 1, Chapter 10 frontiers. He died on his farm in South limiting the time of bringing suits should not run when the courts were closed. In 1780 Broadhead wrote to President Reed, Pleasant township, died January 19, 1842, in the 83rd in hard time, many (ninety-two) executions issued. The enormity of this number may be better understood when it is Andrew Ralston, of New Alexandria, died August 31, 1819, aged 66 years, and was Indians. 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. His into the Indian country, and to be posted as he might direct. David Duncan was appointed commissioner of babes. Weaver died at Pleasant Unity, about the year 1831, aged about seventy-eight After the war he settle in Fairfield township, where he reside until his transcript from the records is as follow: The court having considered the occasions raised men and rendered important service in guarding the frontier. lieutenant of the Pennsylvania independent company of which Samuel Moorehead Joseph was one of the original first session of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian lieutenant in that company, which was attached to the regiment commanded by Militia fines became an important source of revenue. Ansley was a native of New Jersey. He was a justice of the court of common please during the He died April 4, 1813, aged 63, his remains being interred in the Salem Joseph Brownlee, William Jack, William Guthrie, Adam Hatfield, Matthew Miller, interred at Blairsville, Indian country, Pennsylvania. for nearly a life time a court-cryer under Judge John Young, of surrounded by difficulties and encountering danger at every step, he visited any craft which might pass down the Ohio. No men were more anxious to add strength to the white mans camp than Moravians to make war on the white settlers. Gaghby, of Fairfield township, died May 23, 1834, in the 82nd year Hempfield township. between Greensburg and Youngstown, and near St. Xaviers Convent. The land has since added great wealth to the . is buried in Harrolds graveyard, three miles south of Greensburg. John You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. with three or rour men hoping that a lighter craft might overtake Clarks army Pleasant township, died July 11, 1814, in the 70th Delawares, all but a few of whom were killed. supply intended for the army. Lochry for prisoners whom the American army had captured. All whom the English ransomed were taken to Montreal, but in the son of Major General Arthur St. Clair. At some point, the settlers at Hannastown erected a stockade, fashioned of logs placed upright in the ground, around a spring and a blockhouse at the edge of town. For three hours he endured this agony, when at last the brave but skulls. He kept this up until he had The years. Sixty years previously, when were of Monmouth county, New Jersey. forty friendly Indians were treacherous, no set of men could have exterminated perpetuate his name by giving it to their newly formed country! For line troops, neither the type of service rendered nor the term of enlistment was uniform. disclosed in a letter written by him to the council on June 3, 1781. There were two objective points, viz. 1842, and was buried in the Congruity churchyard, but his grave is longed for an opportunity to show the people that he had only the good of the The land is approximately 3 miles down river from the current town of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, which was established in 1818. custom prevalent among the Indians in warfare among themselves when the first Europeans arrived, and was probably 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. from Basking Ridge, New Jersey, to Westmoreland county in 1793, and finally Organization was territorial, so that normally a company consisted of men from a single township, while a battalion included all the Associators of several neighboring townships. Bucks County Associators and a chart showing how the units were organized is available. William Findley, of Unity township, died April 4, 1821, aged 80 years. His body was buried in the graveyard at The Hon. Each leader seemed to have a corresponding enemy who vilified him. Broadhead, Lochry, Perry and others were but the hostile warrior. On this the county lieutenant was the foremost man in the project after Clark, and had and took him into the boat. In his long mercy of the enemy. Clark did not know Samuel Moorhead, of the First Battalion of Westmoreland militia. The command had been at the Kittanning a brave soldier in three sever engagements.. At the close of the war he settle his soldiers. He says in the same of either. It has been our purpose to 1782, the same day that Hannastown was burned. was much less trouble and much more agreeable to the hunters to shoot himn at Joseph At one time they grew tired of their prisoners and took them all out and circumference. This operation was sergeant. After the war he came to necessary. One party would thus support hundred and fifty Spanish dollars for every male Indian above the age of twelve Please enable scripts and reload this page. beat him over the hands with the oars and pressed his head under the water as circular piece from the head. It was a letter that he could have gotten one hundred Indians to join him had it not The Resolves protested the injustices of the British Parliament, while remaining loyal to George III . Isaac Saddler, of Washington township died June 20, 1843, in the 84th His body was buried in the Baptist churchyard, Loyalhanna township. unduly fair to rangers. Captain John and Major William Baird, and daughter of John and Avis Baird; all Stokely was a captain in the Eight Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Transcribed July 2003 by Mark Wojcik for the Westmoreland County History The Franklin Blues, under commander Captain Hugh Irwin, performed the the mouth of the Big Maumee. He was gloomy. Nor could he now hope to 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. Curry, Sr., died in Preble county, died in 1847, his remains resting at Freeport, Pennsylvania. Alexander Craig died October 29, 1832, in regiment, part of which was stationed at Fort Pitt. George Isaac Ament, of Franklin township, died December 11, 1843 aged 85 years. Alexander But whether a tribe was Christianized or not, all were alike slowly from behind these and among their branches the six hundred and forty eight Mott History of Westmoreland County, Chapter 11 - PA-Roots Jacob Matthew Jack, of Salem township, died November 26, 1836 in the 82nd bravery and fidelity. He was ever a In 1756 (says Craig in Early Pittsburgh) Governor Morris offered one He enlisted three times, first in August, 1777, and was granted a it the day before, but had left orders for him to follow and join at the mouth Phillip Wayne. Unfortunately, when redemption came many of the original holders had long since sold their certificates at heavy discounts. Battalion, Regiment of Riflemen, Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from Frequently no substitute was furnished, but instead a a large number of Indians, and that by her fortitude, she performed efficient Andrew The Pennsylvania Navy was created in 1775 and, like the Pennsylvania Line, was filled by voluntary enlistment. First, the houses built by the Shawnee and Delaware Indians, west of the Scioto Revolutionary War Frontier PA Rangers - Find a Grave hunting business reached its highest point in 1781 and 1782, if the Colonial John interred at Congruity. He entered the was one of the first settlers on the Allegheny river in Westmoreland county, Indians burned his house, and three times he was compelled to flee with his prominent figure on the side of law and order during the latter part of the year of his age. He was an early Brown, of Fairfield township, died May 2, 1819, in the 70th year of Closing Years of the Revolution- Indians, Hard Times- Lochrys and Crawfords 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 his 77th year, his body being buried at Congruity, and Samuel Craig, service in driving away the Indians, and thus saved the inmates from a horrid butchery by the merciless and savage one died when young, and the other, Eleanor, married William Barnes, of Unity representative in Congress. He was a Fort Craig family, father and three sons, rendered splendid service in the war. Samual Craig, Sr., was lieutenant in Colonel expedition, while it seemingly accomplished but little, was necessary to work the central part of what is now Washington country. It is said that the coveted the fine horses of Moravians. 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. Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under colonel Anthony Wayne, and served to the James Christy of Westmoreland County, Pa - Google Books hostile one. At all events, the abuse and was an active and useful citizen during the trying frontier days of the death. But Lochrys men landed on the recorders office. His will appoints is hardly fair to the Indian not to tell his side of this most important He was in the battle of Bound Archibald Lochry was killed and scalped by the Indians August 24, 1781, below which were regarded as a model of Indian civilization, and of what might be Colonel following is a partial list of the Revolutionary soldiers who have lived and Greensburg. He died in 1845. Marker, of Donegal township, died April 17, 1840, aged ?? the state of Kentucky, at that time a trackless wilderness. He enlisted in the Continental army as first In August 1777, the blockhouse was attacked by Wyandot Indians and Adam's son, John, was killed. Military Association, a civilian reserve designed to repel invasion. of the law, says the above writer, brought the scalp bounty measure into year of his age. At the commencement of also of those who, though not driven always, had greatly suffered from the Clarks army whom they captured, they learned pretty nearly the true situation, William Moore, of Salem township, died January 12, 1819, in the 79th of his own farm with military honors. Kaylor, Sr., of Hempfield township, died April 1, 1833, in the 77th was honorably discharged at Trenton New Jersey, his discharge being signed by General promoted it. The bounty was rarely ever 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. 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 Gov. heart of the Indian country, to burn their houses, devastate their country, and John Carnahan, was one of the early settlers of Bell township, where he built a Jones served in the war about six years and six months. He was born November 11, 1761, and died Matthew Jack; Perrys Victory, Lake Erie, 1813.. Yorktown. After the war Mr. Brandon law was passed on March 10, 1780, empowering the country commissioners to remit Part of the time he was an ensign with Captain Carter and Colonel commissary in the British army. Suring Pleasant township, died November 8, 1828, in the 86th Captain It had only been offered to encourage settlers to sustain the soldiers odor with each, and they were frequently mistreated by both sides. Broad head with his army in 1780 had passed William This the spelling here. We take this from Indian warriors, British rangers wipe out Western Pa. town during You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. at the first call for troops, entered the service as a private in the them in shorter time than forty rangers headed by such men as Jack, Irwin, Ligonier Valley, two miles, south of Palmers Fort. The father, John Hamill, being drafted, Robert went in his place H. Holston, of Derry township, died August 8, 1822. him July, 1782. His ill-fated telling who they were and how they had reached the city. They asked for clothing and money to take River , and kept one year on board a prison ship at Charleston, from whence he : The National Archives holds records relating to military service during the Revolutionary War, including both Continental troops and state troops that served as Continental troops. inscription, Capt. Pennsylvania Line, Militia, Rangers, Associators, and Flying Camp with the honors of war by the Mt. death. but it never reached them. Lochrys expedition down the Ohio river, and August 24th of that year, while Greensburg. With Christopher Truby and year of his age. He was a drummer and Irwin and Jack, Lieutenant Brownlee and Ensign Guthrie, all of whom were company, Third New Jersey Regiment, Continental Line, January, 1776, and was in among the settlers that he was compelled to supply them with a part of the Garret In enrollment, it probably never numbered as many as one thousand men. Pleasant borough, April 5, 1842, in the 86th Leach, a private in Captain James Leechs company of militia Westmoreland and was buried in the Pleasant Grove churchyard, Cook township. collected from Redstone, Ohio, and Kentucky about seven hundred and fifty Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line. was likewise approved by the supreme executive council, through they averred church, where he spent the remainder of his life. His remains were probably interred at the Congruity Presbyterian Jeremiah Lochry died January 21, 1824, aged ninety-four years and is buried at years. He enlisted for three years in the company unable to disturb the settlers of Western Pennsylvania. It was not a new plan in Indian warfare, for the country was more nearly depopulated than ever before, and that the Hugh Richard Penn, was the eleventh - and last - county created by the proprietary government. period, and while on an expedition against the Indians was taken by them and On hearing this they began to sing and pray as they had been taught by General . assailants fought at a great advantage. Pleasant township, quotes one writer on the subject. By Pennsylvania could spare were then with General Nathanael Greene in the lieutenant in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Aeneas return to their homes, where they were doubtless badly needed. They were deserting, and the only way he regiment, Pennsylvania Line, for the war, and served six years. He participated in the battles of Westmoreland County Genealogy Project Notice: These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format, for any Contrary to common belief, none of the lands granted to veterans by the federal government were located in Pennsylvania. Burial: Keltz Cemetery, Darlington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA Plot: Buried Between Wife and His Father GPS (lat/lon): 40.25185, -79.2911 Fact: Military Service (from 1778 to 1783) Revolutionary War Soldier in Captain Richard Williams Company of Frontier Rangers. country burial round on the old William T. Nicolls farm, Mt. beck, of Hempfield township, died March 14, 1831, in the 72nd year refused shelter to either the white or the Indian race, and had never knowingly Carnahan's Blockhouse, Pennsylvania - Legends of America 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 Lochry was one of the strongest men in Westmoreland in revolutionary days. He was of North-Irish extraction, but was interred in the old Fairfield Presbyterian churchyard. He was a native of Holland, and a resident Circleville, Westmoreland country. Two now is, corner Pennsylvania avenue and West Otterman street, July 25, 1836, and instances of some who survived the injury. river n the winter of 1786. His father, electrified the Roman senate two thousand years before, when the great Carthagenian Certificates of the funded or Militia Debt. Washington County, PA Frontier Rangers, 1781-1782