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Jacob Peter. Conrad Rehrich.
Class 8th.
Jacob Handwerk. Christopher Rex.
William Andrew Ludwick Stein.
Jacob Brandstetter. Jacob Baer.
6th Company. Captain.
Matthias Brobst. Lieutenants. Ist. Andrew Mayer. 2nd, John Stein.
John Behr.
Samuel Kistler.
George Eckenrot. Jacob Kistler.
Jacob Fries. John Lesser.
Daniel Hamm. Abraham Behly.
Class 7th.
Frederick Sechler. Jacob Koons.
George Sangenberger. Jacob Karl.
John Leiby. Jacob Wetzel.
George Ruprecht.
Class 8th.
Philip Probst. Frederick Breiner.
John Herman. Thomas Ferma.
Daniel Neier. Christopher Sunday. Philip Fosselman. Cornelius Klingman.
7th Company. Captain. John Grum. Lieutenants.
Ist, Henry Hoffman. 2nd, David Gortner.
Ensign. Nicholas Miller. Sergeants. George Miller.
John Linss. George Simon Wehr. Christian Shmidt. Corporals. Michael Misemer. John Foller. Peter Rity. Christian Kram.
Class 4th.
Henry Schneder. Jacob Rex.
John Kistler. Paul Bachman.
Hellem Carl. Jacob Grimm. Paul Anthony.
Ludwick Schneder.
Class 5th.
Jacob Sechler.
Peter Gifft.
John Anthony. George Breisch.
Conrad Hollenbach. Martin Probst.
John Delong. Daniel Stambach
Class 2nd.
Baltser Shnider. Conrad Bellman.
George Guldner. Martin Andrews. William Rex.
Andrew Sechler. George Shnerr. George Harman.
George Nungaser.
Jacob Retenhauser. Jacob Freyman.
Class Ist.
Class Ist.
Jacob Miller. John Breiner.
Corporals. Philip Ebert.
Ist, Adam Kunckel. 2nd, George Bloss. Ensign. George Rex. Court Martial Men.
5th Company. Captain. Conrad Ritter. Lieutenants.
Peter Frantz. Leonard Lautenschleger.
Henry Lautenschleger.
Class 6th.
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Class Ist.
Andrew Foeller. George P. Missemer. Francis Missemer.
John Shneiter. Philip Heimbauch.
Jacob Messmer.
Jacob Weaver. John Weaver.
Henry Weaver. Adam German.
Michael Wher. Jacob Reinsmith.
Nicholas Wher.
John Wuchter.
Philip Reinhard. Jacob Hausman.
Jacob Kemmerer. John Keck.
Class 5th. Jacob Smith. Tohn Fogt. Peter Handwerck. Conrad Keck.
Class 6th.
Jacob Hundsinger. Michael Ohl, Jur.
Christian Shnerther.
Lawrence Kranoble.
Leonard Miller. John Rensmith, Sen'r. Samuel Schneithter. John Rensmith, Jun'r.
Class 7th.
Adam Gabel. Adam Smith.
Charles Ross. Lawrence Ross. Conrad Reitice.
Christian Grum. John Ebert.
Class 8th.
Michael Gabel. John Rumple, Sen'r.
Jacob Keller.
Leonard Waseaman.
John Rumple, Jun'r. Ulrich Neff.
George Reepert.
8th Company. Captain. Joseph Siegfried. Lieutenants. 2nd, John Ritter. Ensign. Valentine Miller.
Sergeants.
Conrad Neff. Peter Saseman.
Christopher Oettinger. Jacob Shoemaker.
Charles Gackabach.
Corporals. Philip Staetler. Daniel Knaus, Jun'r.
Michael Baurman.
Drum and Fife.
Jacob Kloss. Henry Kloss.
Class Ist.
David Frey.
Peter Klein.
George Reichert.
John Witt.
Class 2nd.
Christopher Sterner.
Jacob Berr. Daniel Knauss.
Bernhard Rabert.
John Kutz. William Frey. Daniel Staetler.
Class 3rd. John Gackenbach. Henry Derr.
George Smith. Isaac Klotz.
Class 4th. Michael Rishel. Ernest Kloss.
Class 5th. John Jampert. Baltzer Fritz.
Class 6th. Nicholas Bissecker. Adam Berr.
Class 7th. John Berr. Conrad Kob.
Class 8th. George Gudekunst.
THE SUGAR-LOAF MASSACRE.
In the Wyoming Valley were many tory sym- pathizers with Great Britain, who acted secretly as spies, and enabled the savages and active tories to swoop down unexpectedly upon parties of Americans, who, entirely unprepared, often suf- fered severely from these tory forays. Col. Hunter, in command at Fort Augusta, dispatched a detachment of Captain Van Etten's company, under command of Captain D. Klader, of North- ampton county, to join a force moving against the tories.
On Sept. 6, 1780, a body of some 250 to 300 tories and Indians attacked Fort Rice. They were repulsed and additional troops having been ordered to the fort, the tories broke up into small parties, numbering about forty. Hearing of the expected arrival of Capt. Klader's small force, they lay in ambush in the Sugar Loaf Valley, along the path leading from the Susquehanna to Northampton county, about seven miles from Nescopeck, and awaited the arrival of their un- suspecting victims.
In the meanwhile, Capt. Klader, after toiling laboriously to the summit of the Buck Moun- tain, had taken the path leading by the "old toll-house," thence down the side of the moun- tain, through a ravine, over the farm of N. Wag- ner and across the creek below, until they came to what had been a Scotch settlement, but now, because of the border troubles, wholly deserted. To their great delight they saw before them open and cleared fields, covered with a luxuriant growth of grass, and beautiful with wild flowers. Weary as they were with the fatigue and hard- ship of their long march, when, for days, they had been tearing their way along thickets and bushes, and clambering over logs and stones, they seemed to have entered upon a veritable paradise.
It was noontide of September 11, 1780, knap-
George Thomas. John Peter. Philip Graus.
Class 2nd. Martin Linss. Simon Greitz. Henry Neff.
John Keer. Jacob Zelner. Henry Gackenback.
Class 3rd. Michael Ohl, Sen'r. John Handwerck. John Ruebsomen.
Jonathan Knauss. John Vogt.
Ludwick Smith. Abraham Kner.
Class 4th. Bernhard Giltner. Tobias Giltner. Andrew Giltner. Frederick Mayer.
John Smith. Adam Koch.
Ist, Kilian Leiby.
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sacks were immediately unslung, and they en- tered upon the enjoyment of the hour. The very beauty of their surroundings lulled to rest all thought of danger. No one seemed to realize the necessity for watchful care. Each roamed about as best suited his fancy. Their guns were scattered here and there, some stacked, some leaning against stumps of logs, others lying flat on the ground. The position of the men re- sembled that of their fire arms. Some were on the ground indulging in a smoke, one man was leaning against a tree with his shoes off, cleaning them out, others had gone for grapes, which grew there in abundance, of which party one had climbed a tree and was picking and eating the grapes from the vine which entwined it.
Suddenly, while in this condition, a volley of musketry was poured in upon them from an un- seen foe, and, with it, rang out the terrible war- whoop of the savages, who, in a moment more, were in their midst, hewing down their victims with the murderous tomahawk. Some escaped, and one or two were taken prisoners, but most of them were killed. A great-uncle of the Engle brothers, recently living in Hazleton and vicin- ity, escaped over the Nescopeck mountain; Abra- ham Klader, brother of the officer in command, concealed himself in Little Nescopeck creek, by clinging to a tree that had fallen across the stream, and keeping his face only above the water until the enemy had disappeared, when he emerged from his concealment and succeeded in reaching home; Frederick Shickler also escaped on Buck mountain by avoiding the Indian trail, leaving it to his right, and keeping out of sight of the Indians, whose yells he could hear as they followed on in pursuit. Lieut. Myer, Ensign Scoby, and private Peter Tubalt Coans were taken prisoners ; the lieutenant escaped, while the other two were taken through to Niagara.
The man in the tree after grapes was shot and fell heavily to the ground beneath. Some were killed in one place and some in another, as they fled and were overtaken by their merciless foes. One soldier whose name cannot be designated, escaped part way up the ravine down which the troops had marched, and there hid himself, but, unfortunately, was betrayed by the barking of his too faithful little dog that had followed him, and was slain. A comrade, secreted in a tree top near by, witnessed the scene. Captain Klad- er, himself, did not succumb until after perform- ing deeds of valor which caused his name to be remembered with feelings akin to veneration. He is said, by some, to have killed four, and, by others, seven of the enemy, before they finally slew and scalped him.
In time, the mutilated bodies of the dead were gathered by Van Campen, under directions of Col. Hunter, and decently interred.
The Roll of Captain Van Etten's company is given in the records as follows:
A MUSTER ROLL OF A COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, NOW IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMANDED BY JOHANNES VAN ETTEN.
Captain. Johannes Van Etten, June 15, 1780. First Lieutenant. John Fish, June 15, 1780. Second Lieutenant. John Myer, June 15, 1780. Ensigns. Henry Bush, June 15, 1780.
James Scoby, Sept. I, 1780; taken prisoner 11th September.
Sergeants.
Thomas Johnston, June 15, 1780.
Samuel Hellet, June 15, 1780.
James Scoby, June 15, 1780; advanced to Ensign the Ist September.
Frederick Everhart, June 15, 1780.
Joseph Gable, August 30, 1780; entered Sergeant. George Price, July 15, 1780. Corporals.
Lewis Holmes, June 15, 1780.
Thomas Gay, June 15, 1780.
Samuel Bond, June 15, 1780; killed IIth Septem- ber.
Adam Hicker, July 17, 1780. Privates.
Samuel Vandermark, June 15, 1780.
Daniel McDole, June 15, 1780.
John Morhart, June 15, 1780.
John Kouts, June 15, 1780; killed IIth September. Rudolph Smith, June 17, 1780.
Abraham Clider, June 15, 1780; killed IIth Sep- tember.
Daniel Smith, June 17, 1780.
George Gongawar, June 17, 1780.
John Myer, June 15, 1780.
Peter Apler, June 15, 1780.
John Weaver, June 17, 1780; killed IIth Septem- ber.
Daniel France, July 7, 1780.
Lawrence Miller, July 8, 1780.
George Pigg, June 15, 1780.
John Robenholt, June 15, 1780.
Leonard Pack, June 15, 1780.
John Sack, June 15, 1780.
Job Storet, June 15, 1780. George Ripsher, June 15, 1780.
Peter Snyder, June 15, 1780.
Peter Lasher, June 15, 1780.
Jacob Cryder, June 15, 1780.
Conrad Koaler, June 15, 1780.
John Nap Snyder, June 15, 1780.
Adam Teel, June 15, 1780.
Voluntine Nicolas, June 15, 1780.
George Hickman, June 15, 1780. John Smith, June 15, 1780.
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John Wetherstone, June 15, 1780.
Christian Haller, July 4, 1780.
Jacob Houser, July 30, 1780.
Peter Siner, July 30, 1780.
Peter Tubalt Coans, June 15, 1780; taken prisoner II September.
Philip Geo. Shilhamer, Aug. 7, 1780.
Baltzer Snyder, July 5, 1780; killed IIth Septem- ber.
Philip Bitten, Aug. 3, 1780; deserted Ioth No- vember.
George Peter Rinhart, June 28, 1780; killed 11th September.
Andrew Myer, June 15, 1780.
Joseph Gable, July 3, 1780; advanced to Serg't, Aug. 30th.
Peter Croom, June 15, 1780; killed IIth Septem- ber.
Johannes Snyder, June 20, 1780.
Andrew Mourer, June 15, 1780.
Adam Lung, June 15, 1780.
George Shilhamer, Aug. 17, 1780; killed IIth Sep- tember.
Paul Neely. July 18, 1780; killed IIth September. Abraham Smith, July 24, 1780; killed IIth Sep- tember.
John Lyn, June 15, 1780; sick, absent.
Jacob Arndt, June 15, 1780; killed 1Ith Septem- ber.
Samuel Summeny, July 25, 1780.
Jacob Collens, June 15, 1780.
Henry Davis, June 15, 1780.
Philip George, June 15, 1780; killed IIth Septem- ber.
Peter McCoy, July 24, 1780.
John Haun, July 25, 1780.
Abraham Wisner, June 15, 1780.
Uriah Tippy, June 15, 1780.
Paul Reeser, June 15, 1780.
Ballser Wever, June 15, 1780.
George Heater, June 15, 1780.
John Smith. Jun'r, June 15, 1780. Christian Wood, June 15, 1780.
John Morgan, June 15, 1780.
Henry France, June 15, 1780.
Bond Hewes, June 15, 1780. John Hain, June 15, 1780.
Michael Yerty, June 15, 1780. Adam Brunthaver, June 15, 1780. Antony Bishop, June 15, 1780.
John Snider. June 15, 1780.
Peter Daniel, June 15, 1780.
Peter Simonton, June 15, 1780.
John Dayly, June 15, 1780. Henry Vaugarden, June 15, 1780.
Abraham Westfall, June 15, 1780.
Cornelius Devoor, June 15, 1780.
Casper Clutter, June 15, 1780.
Peter Quick, June 15, 1780. Thomas Van Sikkle, June 15, 1780.
Samuel Vangarden, June 15, 1780.
Solomon Huff, June 15, 1780.
Thomas Hewe, June 30, 1780.
James McGraw, July 24, 1780; killed IIth Sep- tember.
Jacob Row, June 15, 1780; killed IIth September. Abraham Clider (Klader) marked incorrectly as killed, escaped.
The following article on the Sugar Loaf Mas- sacre, from the pen of the late John C. Stokes,
appeared some 40 years ago in the Hazleton Sen- tinel, of which Mr. Stokes was the founder and at that time the editor.
"Local tradition furnishes us with many in- teresting incidents and reminiscences of early times in Sugar Loaf Valley, that are worthy of preservation, being illustrative of the hardships encountered and privations endured by the pion- eers of that beautiful and fertile valley; and there are old persons still living there who have seen and conversed with some of the ‘seven months men' who escaped the massacre of 1780, near the spot where Conyngham now stands. A brief synopsis of a few of the accounts that have come down to us from a past generation may not, though given disconnectedly be devoid of interest.
"Many of our readers are familiar with the short accounts of the Sugar Loaf Massacre in Mr. Miner's History and Mr. Pearce's Annals. Brief as these accounts are, however, they differ very materially from the true version of the af- fair, if we may credit the concurrent testimony of a score of aged men and women now living, who have heard the facts in the case narrated by men who belonged to the party that the In- dians attacked, and by those who were after- wards sent to inter the dead bodies of the victims. Mr. Miner's account was from the lips of Abi- gail Dodson, who was taken prisoner with the Gilbert family, from Mahoning, below Mauch Chunk and conducted over the great 'war path' or Indian trail that crossed the Quakake, and passed over the mountain near the present sites of Tresckow and Ashburton, entering the valley by the little ravine that extends from the toll gate toward the Little Nescopeck. The Gilbert family were captured in April, 1780, the year after Sullivan's expedition; and as the Sugar Loaf tragedy was enacted in the autumn of the same year, while Abigail was still in the hands of the savages, she received her account from the prisoners brought to Canada, who, no doubt, supposed that the entire party were killed or cap- tured as since stated in the published account ; but there is undoubted evidence that such was not the case. A great uncle of the Engle broth- ers who now live in Hazleton and the valley, escaped over the Nescopeck mountain, and across the Susquehanna to Fort Jenkins, losing one shoe in his flight, and Abraham Klader, a brother of the officer in command, concealed himself in the Little Nescopeck creek, clinging to a tree that had fallen across the stream, and keeping only his face above the water until the enemy disappeared, when he emerged from his conceal- ment and succeeded in reaching his home. Fred-
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erick Shickler also escaped on the Buck moun- tain, avoiding the Indian trail and finally reach- ing the white settlement in the Lehigh Valley in safety.
"We have conversed with an old gentleman, now eighty-four years of age, who fifty or sixty years ago heard Shickler, then an old man, re- late his adventures. After reaching the top of Buck mountain he left the path to his right and managed to keep out of sight of the Indians, whose yells he could distinctly hear as they fol- lowed the path in pursuit of him. A few others are known to have escaped, but nothing reliable can now be gathered respecting their names or the particulars of their escape.
"Both Miner and Pearce say that the company was commanded by Capt. Myers, while Chap- man, page 133, says that Wm. Moyer was in command; but the oldest living descendants of the early settlers, with a number of whom we have conversed, agree in asserting that the com- pany was under the command of Capt. Klader, who, after performing deeds of prodigy and valor that caused his name afterwards to inspire feelings akin to veneration, was finally killed and scalped and subsequently buried, as were also others of the party on what is now the farm of Samuel Wagner, about a half mile from Conyngham. We visited Wagner's farm a few days since, in company with Mr. S. D. Engle, of this borough, and were conducted by Anthony Fisher, a man whose locks are whitened by the frosts of ninety winters, to the spot where the brave Klader rests, but no trace of the grave is now to be seen. The oak tree under whose branches he lay, and upon which were the initials of his name, D. K., was sacrilegiously cut down fifteen years ago, and even the stump is decayed and gone. Mr. Fisher, many years ago, was in- timately acquainted with John Wertz, who had belonged to the party that buried the slain and marked their leader's grave by cutting the in- itials spoken of above. As the old man leaned upon his staff and surveyed the spot, he gave ex- pression to feelings of deep regret that the tree was not permitted to stand as a memorial of the heroic deeds of those by-gone days. Well might they have exclaimed, who revered the name of the hero of Sugar Loaf Valley,
'Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough !'
"Klader sold his life as dearly as possible. Four Indians, or, according to some accounts, seven, were dispatched by his own hands before he finally succumbed to numbers. The Indians in retaliation, inflicted upon him every torture that
savage cruelty could devise. The details of their barbarities are too shocking to relate. ' We were shown, by Mr. Fisher, a flint lock and a gun barrel, both much eaten by rust, that were plowed up on Klader's grave a few years ago. These relics are in the possession of Mr. Samuel Wagner."
Lieutenant Colonel Balliet, who was one of the officers accompanying the force who volun- teered to march to the scene of the massacre and bury the dead, wrote the following letter to President Reed :
"Northampton County, Sept. 20, 1780.
"Sir: I take the earliest opportunity to acquaint your excellency of the distressed and dangerous situation of our frontier inhabitants, and the misfortune happened to our volunteers stationed at the Gnaden Hutts, they having received in- telligence that a number of disaffected persons lived near the Susquehanna at a place called the Scotch Valley, who have been suspected to hold up correspondence with the Indians and the Tories in the country. They set out on the 8th inst., for that place to see whether they might be able to find out anything of that nature, but were attacked on the 10th at noon about eight miles from that settlement by a large body of Indians and Tories (as one had red hair) supposed by some forty and by some twice that number, they totally dispersed our people, twenty-two of forty-one have since come in sev- eral of whom are wounded. It is also reported that Lieut. John Moyer had been made a pris- oner and made his escape from them again and returned at Wyoming.
"On the first notice of the unfortunate event the officers of the militia have exerted them- selves to get volunteers out of their respective divisions to go up and bury the dead. Their labor proved not in vain. We collected about 150 officers and men from the Colonels Kern, Giger and my own battalions, who would un- dergo the fatigue and danger to go there and pay that respect to their slaughtered brethern, due to men who fell in support of the freedom of their country. On the 15th we took up our line of march (want of ammunition prevented us from going sooner). On the 17th we arrived at the place of action, where we found ten of the sol- diers dead, scalped, stripped naked and in a most cruel and barbarous manner-tomahawked, their throats cut, etc., etc., whom we buried and re- turned without even seeing any of their black allies and bloody executors of British tyranny. I can't conclude without observing that the Cols. Kern, of the third battalion, and Giger, of the
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sixth, who is upwards of sixty years of age, to- gether with all the other officers and men, have encountered their high and many hills and moun- tains with the greatest satisfaction and discipline imaginable, and their countenances appeared to be eager to engage with their tyrannical enemies who are employed by the British Court and equipped at their expense, as appeared by a new fuse and several gun barrels, etc., bent and broke in pieces with the British stamp thereon, found by our men. We also have great reason to be- lieve that several of the Indians have been killed by our men, in particular one by Col. Kern and another by Capt. Moyer, both of whom went volunteers with this party. We viewed where they said they fired at them and found the grass and weeds remarkably beated down, though they had carried them off. So I conclude with re- maining your Excellency's most humble servant,
"STEPHEN BALLIET,
"Lt. Col. Ist B, N. C. M."
The following extract is from a letter writ- ten by Col. Samuel Rea to President Reed, and bears date, Mount Bethel, Oct. 24, 1780:
"Col. Balliet informs me that he had given council in relation of killed and wounded he had found and buried near Nescopeck. As he was at the place of action his account must be as near truth as any I could procure, though since that Lieut. Myers, who was taken prisoner by the enemy in that unhappy action, has made his escape from the savages and reports that Ensign Scoby and one private was taken with him and that they had thirteen scalps along with them, that several of them were wounded and sup- poses some killed."
MUSTER ROLL OF CAPTAIN ADAM DEAL'S COMPANY OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, SERVING IN THE 8TH CLASS, ON THE FRONTIERS, COMMANDED BY LIEUTEN- ANT COLONEL STEPHEN BALLIET, ESQ. THE 9TH OF JULY, 1781.
Captain.
Entered. Dismissed.
Adam Deal,
July 9
Lieutenant.
Jacob Kemerer,
July 9
Sept. 10
Sergeants.
Joseph Gabell, July II
Christopher Rex, July 10
Peter Rücher, July 17
Corporals.
Charles Volk, July 14
Conrath Roerich, July 9 Sept. II
Nathan Beach, . July 20
Drummer. Entered. Dismissed.
Garrett Rittenhaus,
July II
Fifer.
Michael Gortner, July II
Privates.
Henry Hunsicker, July 9 Sept. II
Peter Heilman, July 9 Sept. Ii
John Braucher, July 21
Sept. 16
Jacob Brandsteter, July 10 Sept. II
Jacob Bachman,
July 17
Sept. II
Leonard Willeman, July
9 Sept. II
John Rumbell,
July
9
Sept. II
Jacob Bähr,
July 22
Sept. II
Jacob Schumacker,
July 17
Sept. II
John Hermany,
July 10
Sept. II
Dewald Hauch,
July II
Sept. II
Daniel Neyer,
July 10
Sept. II
Martin Bähr,
July 10
Sept. II
John Fink, July 10
Sept. II
John George Shellhamer, July 9 Sept. II
George Simon Wehr, July
9
Sept. II
John Legliter, July 9
Sept. II
Leonhardt Zimmerman, July
9 Sept. II
Henry Hausser. July
9 Sept. II
Cornelius Glingeman,
July
9 Sept. II
John Kissner, July 9 Sept. II
Michael Keck,
July
9 Sept. II
Substitutes. Entered.Dismissed.
Jacob Mans, Joseph Gabell, Sergt., . July II Sept. II
Adam Schmidt,
. Charles Volk, Corp., . . July 14
Sept. II
Philip Hamell,
. Peter Stein, . July 30
Sept. II
John Schmidt, Christop Bucher, July 15
Sept. 1I
Frideric Handwerk, . Thomas Jansen,
July 27
Sept. II
Jacob Handwerk. .. Garrett Rittenhouse,
Drummer, . July 17
Sept. II
Heinrich Class,
. Michael Gortner, Fifer, July 19
Sept. 11
George Rubert,
Heinrich Georg, . July 17
Sept. II
Burkhard Moser, .. William Gabell, . July 17
Sept. 1I
George Reichert, . . Jost Wirt, July 22
Sept. II
Christian Schmidt, .Nathan Beach, Corp., . July 20
Sept. II
Andreas Miller, . Solomon Leheson, . .. July 26
Sept. 1I
Martin Moser, Henry Simers, .July 9
Sept. II
Ulrich Neff, Williams Simers, . July 9
Sept. II
Philip Bauer, Andreas Herger, .. July 9
Sept. II
Henry Bever, John Edmonds, . July 9 Sept. 1I
Leonard Wasum,
Peter Rucher, Sergt., . July 17
Sept. II
Daniel Schnyder, Friderich Schober, . . July 17
Sept. II
Jacob Bohler, . George Schick, July 22 Sept. 11
Frideric Breiner, .. George Miller, July 15 Sept. 1 1
Jacob Correll,
Bernhardt Hauser, .July 10
Sept. II
Christian Schuman, . George Hant, July 10
Sept. 10
Christoph Sonday, .. Daniel Knaus, July 15 Sept. 10
Philip Fuselman, ... Michael Dress, . July 17 Sept. 10
Philip Probst, . . Jacob Dengler, .July 17
Sept. 10
Sept. 10
Heinrich Notstein, .. William Wahll, .. July 21 Sept. II
Mustered the Ioth Sept. 1781 pr. order of Col. Robert Levers, pr. me. JOHN CHAMBERS.
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A MUSTER ROLL OF CAPTAIN ADAM SER- FASS' COMPANY, CONSISTING OF THE FIRST CLASS OF NORTHAMPTON COUN- TY MILITIA, NOW IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMANDED BY LIEUT. COL. CHRISTIAN SHOUSE, IN THE YEAR 1781.
Names and Rank.
Time of entering in the service.
When discharged.
Days in service.
Names and Rank.
Time of entering
in the service. '
When discharged. V
Days in service.
Henry Mertz, Sept. 22, 1781
Daniel Rish,
. Sept. 22, 1781
Nov. 22 60
Peter Smith,
. Sept. 22, 1781
Nov. 22 60
Michael Harbach,
. Sept. 22, 1781
Nov. 22 60
Nicholas Litzenbach, . Sept. 22, 1781
.. Sept. 22, 1781
Nov. 22
60
Henry Kek,
. Sept. 22, 1781
Nov. 22
60
Christian Miller,
. Sept. 22, 1781
Nov. 22
60
Nicholas Miller,
. Sept. 22, 1781
Nov. 22
60
Major.
Peter Trexler, Sept. 10, 1781 Nov. 10 60
Adjutant.
Melchoir Rissel,
. Sept. 22, 1781
Nov. 22 60
George Walbert, . Sept. 22, 1781
Nov. 22
60 60
Captain.
Dewald Kuntz, . Oct. 12, 1781
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