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A return dated Nov. 1, 1777, shows the strength of the regiment present : colonel, major, two captains, six lieutenants, adjutant, paymaster and surgeon, ser- geant-major, quartermaster-sergeant and drum-major,
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twenty-nine sergeants, nine drums and fifes, one hun- dred and twelve rank and file fit for duty; twenty- eight sick present, seventy-seven sick absent, one hundred and thirty-nine on command; total, three hundred and fifty-one. Prisoners of war, one sergeant and fifty-eight privates. Capt. Van Swearingen, Lieut. Basil Prather, and Lieut. John Hardin on command with Col. Morgan. Vacant offices : lieu- tenant-colonel, four captains, three lieutenants, eight ensigns, chaplain, and surgeon's mate. Lieut .- Col.
West Branch to check the savages who were ravaging Wyoming and the West Branch Valley. He was at Muncy on the 24th of July, and had ordered Capt. Finley's company into Penn's Valley, where two of the latter's soldiers, Thomas Van Doren and Jacob Shed- acre, who had participated in the campaign against Burgoyne, were killed on the 24th, in sight of Potter's fort, by the Indians. (Pennsylvania Archives, O. S., vol. vi. page 666.) Soon after, Col. Hartley with his regiment relieved Col. Brodhead, and he proceeded with the Eighth to Pittsburgh.
A monthly return of the troops commanded by Col. Brodhead in the Western Department, dated July 30, 1780, gives the strength of the Eighth Pennsyl- vania : colonel, lieutenant-colonel, major, two captains, three lieutenants, four ensigns, adjutant, paymaster, quartermaster, surgeon, surgeon's mate, sergeant- major, quartermaster-sergeant, one drum and fife major, ten sergeants, ten drums and fifes, one hundred and twenty rank and file fit for duty, four sick, two furloughed, eight on command, three deserted, six joined the Invalid Company.
In a letter from Gen. William Irvine to Gen. Wash- ington, soon after he took command at Fort Pitt, dated Dec. 2, 1781, he says, "I have reformed the remains of the late Eighth Pennsylvania into two companies, and call them a detachment from the Pennsylvania line, to be commanded by Lieut .- Col. Bayard." [The first company, Capt. Clark, Lieuts. Peterson and Reed; second company, Capt. Brady, Lieuts. Ward and Morrison.]
Capt. Matthew Jack, in a statement on file, says, "In the year 1778 the Eighth was sent to Pittsburgh to guard the frontier, and placed under the command of Gen. McIntosh; that they went down to the Captains. mouth of the Beaver, and there built Fort McIntosh, - and from that went, upon McIntosh's command, to | the head of the Muskingum, and there built Fort Laurens. In the year 1779 went up the Allegheny, on Gen. Brodhead's expedition, attacked the Indians and defeated them, and burned their towns. On the return of the regiment, its time having expired, it was discharged at Pittsburgh." For a full account of the . Probably they were all dated Aug. 9, 1776, as Van Swearingen's.
services of this regiment in the West the reader is referred to "Brodhead's Letter-Book," published in the twelfth volume, first series, of Pennsylvania Ar- chives.
Van Swearingen was probably the most noted cap- tain in the Eighth Pennsylvania. On the 19th of September he and a lieutenant and twenty privates were captured in a sudden dash that scattered Mor- gan's men. He fell into the hands of the Indians, but was rescued by Gen. Fraser's batman (one who Ross resigned after the battles of Brandywine and | takes care of his officer's horse), who took him before Germantown.
the general. The latter interrogated him concerning the number of the American army, but got no answer, except that it was commanded by Gens. Gates and Arnold. He then threatened to hang him. "You
On the 5th of March, 1777, the regiment was or- dered to Pittsburgh for the defense of the western frontiers, and by direction of Gen. McIntosh, Col. Brodhead made, about the 12th of July, a détour upthe ' may, if you please," said Van Swearingen. Fraser then rode off, leaving him in care of Sergt. Dunbar, who consigned him to Lieut. Auburey, who ordered him to be placed among the other prisoners, with directions not to be ill treated. Swearingen, after Burgoyne's army was removed to Virginia, made especial exertions to have Dunbar and Auburey ex- changed. Swearingen was the first sheriff of Wash- ington County in 1781. His daughter became the wife of the celebrated Capt. Samuel Brady (also of the Eighth Pennsylvania), so conspicuous in the annals of Western Pennsylvania.
ROSTER OF FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS OF THE EIGHTH PENNSYLVANIA.
Colonels.
Mackay, Eneas, of Westmoreland County, July 20, 1776 ; died in service. Feb. 14, 1777.
Brodhead, Daniel, from lieutenant-colonel Fourth Pennsylvania, March 12, 1777 ; joined April, 1777 ; transferred to First Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 1781.
Lieutenant-Colonels.
Wilson, George, July 20, 1776; died in service at Quibbletown, February, 1777.
Butler, Richard, from major, March 12, 1777, ranking from Aug. 28, 1776; transferred to lieutenant-colonel of Morgan's rifle command, June 9, 1777; promoted colonel of Ninth Pennsylvania, ranking from June 7, 1777; by an alteration subsequent to March 12, 1777, Richard Butler was placed in the First Pennsylvania, and James Ross in Eighth Pennsylvania.
Ross, James, from lieutenaut-colonel First Pennsylvania; resigned Sept. 22, 1777.
Bayard, Stephen, from major, ranking Sept. 23, 1777 ; transferred to Sixth Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 1781.
Majors.
Butler, Richard, July 20, 1776 ; promoted lieutenant-colonel March 12, 1777.
Bayard, Stephen, March 12, 1777. ranking from Oct. 4, 1776; promoted lieutenant-colonel, to rank from Sept. 23, 1777.
Vernon, Frederick, from captain Fifth Pennsylvania, ranking from June 7, 1777; transferred to Fourth Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 1781.
Kilgore, David, died July 11, 1814, aged sixty-nine years four months and twelve days; buried in the Presbyterian graveyard of Mount Pleas- ant (Middle Church), Westmoreland County .- Letter of Nannie H. Kilgore, Greensburg, July 23, 1878.
Miller, Samuel, died in service, Jan. 10, 1778; left a widow, Jane Cruik- shank, who resided in Westmoreland County in 1784.
Van Swearingen,1 Aug. 9, 1776. Van Swearingen had been in command -
1 The names of the captains appear, on the first return found, in the order indicated above, but date of commissione cannot be ascertained.
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of an independent company, in the pay of the State from February to Aug. 11, 1776, in defense of the frontiers in Westmoreland County. Piggott, James; on return June 9, 1777, he is marked sick in camp. Ourry, Wendel.
Maun, Andrew ; on return of June 9, 1777, he is marked sick in quarters since May 2d.
Carson, Moses, left the service April 21, 1777. Miers, Eliezer.
[The foregoing captains were recommended by the committees of Westmoreland and Bedford Counties, and directed to be commissioned by resolution of Congress Sept. 14, 1776.]
Montgomery, James, died Aug. 26, 1777; his widow, Martha, resided in Westmoreland County in 1824.
Huffnagle, Michael, died Dec. 31, 1819, in Allegheny County, aged sixty- six.
Jack, Matthew, from first lieutenant; became supernumerary Jan. 31, 1779; resided in Westmoreland County in 1835, aged eighty-two.
Stokely, Nehemiah, Oct. 16, 1777; became supernumerary Jan. 31, 1779; died in Westmoreland County in 1811.
Cooke, Thomas, from first lieutenant; became supernumerary Jan. 31, 1779; died in Guernsey County, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1835.
Dawson, Samuel, from Eleventh Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778; died at Fort Pitt, Sept. 6, 1779 ; buried in First Presbyterian churchyard in Pittsburgh.
Moore, James Francis, from Thirteenth Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778. Clark, John, from Thirteenth Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778 ; transferred to First Pennsylvania, July 17, 1781.
Carnahan, James, from Thirteenth Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778; trans- ferred to Fourth Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 1781.
Finley, Joseph L., from Thirteenth Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778 ; brigade- major, July 30, 1780; transferred to Second Pennsylvania Jan. 17, 1781.
Finley, John, from first lieutenant, Oct. 22, 1777; transferred to Fifth Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 1781.
Crawford, John, from first lieutenant, Aug. 10, 1779 ; transferred to Sixth Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 1781.
Brady, Samuel, from captain lieutenant, Aug. 2, 1779; transferred to Third Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 1781.
Captain Lieutenant.
Brady, Samuel, commission dated July 17, 1776; from Sixth Pennsyl- vania ; promoted captain Aug. 2, 1779.
First Lieutenants.
Moseley, Robert (written Moody in the return), resigned May 16, 1777; resided in Ohio County, Ky., in 1820, aged sixty-nine.
Cooke, Thomas, promoted captain.
Finley, John, promoted captain Oct. 22, 1777.
Jack, Matthew, lost his left hand by the bursting of his gun at Bound Brook, N. J .; promoted captain April 13, 1777.
Hickman, Ezekiel.
Carson, Richard, left the service in 1777.
McGeary, William, resigned April 17, 1777.
McDolo, Joseph, left the service in 1777.
[The foregoing first lieutenants were commissioned under the resolu- tion of Congress of Sept. 16, 1776.]
Richardson, Richard, returned June 9, 1777, as recruiting.
Prather, Basil, returned Nov. 1, 1777, as on command with Col. Morgan from June 9th ; resigned April 1, 1779.
Hughes, John, Aug. 9, 1776 ; resigned Nov. 23, 1778; resided in Wash- ington County in 1813.
Crawford, John, from second lieutenant April 18, 1777; promoted cap- tain Aug. 10, 1779 ; promoted to Second Pennsylvania, with rank of captain, from April 18, 1777.
Hardin, John, July 13, 1777; Nov. 1, 1777, returned as on command with Col. Morgan ; resigned in 1779 ; afterwards Gen. John Hardin, of Kentucky ; murdered by the Indians near Sandusky, Ohio, in 1791 .- Wilkinson's Memoirs.
Mickey, Daniel, became supernumerary Jan. 31, 1779.
Petersou, Gabriel, July 26, 1777; died in Allegheny County, Feb. 12, 1832.
Stotesbury, John, from old Eleventh Pennsylvania, commission dated April 9, 1777 ; he was a prisoner in New York for some time ; trans- ferred to the Second Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 1781.
Neilly, Benjamin, from ensign, Oct. 4, 1777.
Finley, Andrew, on return of Nov. 1, 1777; marked sick since October 16th; retired in 1778 ; resided in Westmoreland County, 1813.
Amberson, William, in 1779 he was deputy muster-master-general; re- sided in Mercer County in 1835.
Read, Archibald, vice Joseph Brownlee, Dec. 13,1778 ; died in Allegheny County in 1823.
Graham, Alexander, vice Basil Prather, April 1, 1779.
Ward, John, April 2, 1779; transferred to Second Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 1781.
Second Lieutenants.
Thompson, William, Aug. 9, 1776; resigned May 17, 1777.
Simrall, Alexander, Aug. 9, 1776 ; left the army in 1777; resided in Jef- ferson County, Ohio, in 1834, aged eighty-eight.
Guthrie, James, Aug. 9, 1776.
Rogers, Philip, Aug. 9, 1776.
Smith, Samuel, Aug. 9, 1776; killed at Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777.
Mountz, William, Ang. 9, 1776; resigned April 17, 1777.
Beeler, James, Jr., Aug. 9, 1776.
Crawford, John, Aug. 9, 1776 ; promoted first lieutenant, April 18, 1777.
[The foregoing second lieutenants were commissioned under resolu- tion of Congress, Sept. 14, 1776, dating as above.]
Owine, Barnabas, marked on return of Nov. 1, 1777, as command in the infantry.
Carnahan, John, resigned in 1779.
Ensigns.
Neilly, Benjamin, promoted to first lieutenant, Oct. 4, 1777.
Kerr, Joseph.
Simmous, John.
Wherry, David.
Mecklin, Dewalt, resigned April 17, 1777.
Weaver, Valentine.
Reed, John.
White, Aquila, left the army Feb. 23, 1777; resided in Montgomery County, Ky., in 1834.
[The foregoing ensigns were commissioned under a resolution of Con- gress of Sept. 14, 1776.]
Forshay, Thomas, left the service in 1777.
McKee, David, left the service in 1777.
Peterson, Gabriel, on a return of June 9, 1777, he is marked absent, wounded, from April 17, 1777; promoted to first lieutenant, July 26, 1777.
Guthrie, John, appointed Dec. 21, 1778.
Morrison, James, appointed Dec. 21, 1778.
Wyatt, Thomas, appointed Dec. 21, 1778 ; resided at St. Louis, Mo., in 1834, aged eighty.
Cooper, William, appointed April 19, 1779.
Davidson, Joshua, appointed April 19, 1779; resided in Brown County, Ohio, in 1833, aged eighty-one.
Chaplain.
McClure, Rev. David, appointed Sept. 12, 1776.
Adjutants.
Huffnagle, Michael, appointed Sept. 7, 1776.
Crawford, John, lieutenant, 1780.
Paymaster.
Boyd, John, July 20, 1776. Quartermasters.
Douglass, Ephraim, Sept. 12, 1776 ; taken prisoner while acting as aide- de-camp to Gen. Lincoln, March 13, 1777; exchanged Nov. 27, 1780; prothonotary of Fayette County in 1783 ; died in 1833.
Neilly, Benjamin, appointed in 1778.
Surgeons.
Morgan, Abel, from old Eleventh; resigned in 1779; died in 1785. Morton, Hugh, March 7, 1780,
Surgeon's Mate.
Saple, John Alexander, 1778.
Clothier.
Reed, Archibald, 1778.
Muster-roll of Capt. Nehemiah Stokely's company, in the Eighth Pennsyl- vania Regiment of Foot ,in the service of the United States of America, commanded by Col. Daniel Brodhead, taken for the months of October, November, and December, 1778, and January, 1779.
Captain.
Stokely, Nehemiah, Oct. 16, 1777; supernumerary, Jan. 31, 1779.
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First Lieutenant.
Hughes, John, Aug. 9, 1776; resigned Nov. 23, 1778.
Ensign.
Wyatt, Thomas, Dec. 20, 1778, on command at Fort Laurens.
Sergeants.
Crawford, Robert, three years. Hezlip, Rezin, three years.
Smith, John, three years, on command at Sugar Camp.
Armstrong, George, war.
Corporals.
Bradley, Thomas, three years. Jarret, William, three years, on command at Fort Laurens. Ackles, Arthur, three years, on guard at block-house.
Stevenson, James, three years, on command at Sugar Camp.
Drummer.
Bower, Michael.
Privates,
Bacon, John, war, at Fort Laurens.
Caldwell, Robert, three years, on command, making canoes.
Cline, George, three years.
Cooper, Joseph, three years, on command at Fort Laurens. Counse, Felix, three years.
Eyler, Jonas, war, on command at Fort Laurens.
Fisher, John, three years.
France, Henry, three years. Handcock, Joseph, three years.
Hill, John, three years.
Holmes, Nicholas, three years.
Holstone, George, three years, on command at Fort Laurens. Kerr, William, three years.
Lamb, Peter, three years, on command at Fort Laurens.
Lewis, Samuel, war.
Lynch, Patrick, three years, on command, boating. McCombs, Allen, three years.
McCaully, Edward, war. McGreggor, John, war.
McKeehan, David, three years, on command at Fort Laurens. McKissan, James, three years.
McLaughlin, Patrick, three years. Matthew, William, three years, on command, boating. Marman, George, war, on command, recruiting.
Martin, Paul, three years, on command at Fort Laurens. Miller, George, three years, on command at Fort Laurens. Richard, Richard, three years. Shaw, Jacob, three years, on furlough. Shelhamer, Peter, three years. Smith, Emanuel, three years. Smith, Jacob, three years. Smith, John, war.
Sommerville, William, three years, on command ; enlisted Aug. 8, 1776, under Capt. Ourry ; October, 1778, appointed conductor of artillery ; see letters to Pennsylvania Archives, second series, vol. iii., p. 245, etc . ; he was appointed by President Jefferson postmaster at Martinsburg, Va., and died there, March 18, 1826, aged seventy.
Steel, Thomas, war. Tracey, James, war, on guard. Turner, William, three years. Webb, Hugh, war, on command, at Sugar Camp. Wilkie, Edward, war, on command at Fort Laurens.
FORT MCINTOSH, Feb. 21, 1779.
Then mustered Capt. Stokely's company, as speci- fied in the above roll.
WM. ANDERSON, D.M.M. Genl., M.D.
I certify that the within muster-roll is a true state of the company, without fraud to these United States, or to any individual, to the best of my knowledge. ROBERT CRAWFORD, Sergeant.
I do certify that there is no commissioned officer present belonging to the company.
DANIEL BRODHEAD, Col. 8th Pa. Regt.
COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE FOR ARMY ACCOUNTA, NEW York, July 19, 1786.
This may certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of the muster-roll of Capt. Stokely's com- pany, the original of which is filed in this office. JNO. PIERCE, M.G.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES OF THE EIGHTH PENNSYL- VANIA REGIMENT, CONTINENTAL LINE.1
[Those marked (e) are taken from a list in the secretary's office of sol- diera whose depreciated pay escheated to the State.]
Sergeant.
Allison, John, died in Versailles, Ky., June 16, 1823, aged seventy-five
Corporal.
Adame, Robert.
Drummer.
Atkinson, Joseph.
Fifer.
Adams, George.
Privates.
Abrams, Gabriel, Kilgore's company, 1776-79.
Aikins, Robert, resided in Bedford County, 1790.
Alcorn, James, transferred to Invalid Corps, July, 1780.
Allen, William, deserted August, 1778.
Anderson, Johnson.
Anderson, William, resided in Mercer County, 1809.
Anderson, George, resided in Westmoreland County, 1835, aged eighty- four.
Armstrong, George.
Askins, George.
Askins, James, deserted August, 1778.
Atkins, Isaac.
Sergeants.
Baker, Michael, died in Greene County, Ill., Sept. 13, 1831.
Blake, William. Byles, Joseph, of Piggott's company.
Fifer.
Bond, John.
Privates.
Bacon, John. Bannon, Jeremiah.
Beard, John, deserted August, 1778.
Berkett, Robert. Berlin, Isaac, died in Crawford County, June 16, 1831, aged seventy-six. Berry, Michael.
Bess, Edward, Van Swearingen's company, 1776-79; also in Crawford's campaign ; died in Washington County, July 17, 1822, aged seventy - seven.
Blake, Luke William. Blake, Nicholas, enlisted August, 1776.
1 " This roll of the Pennsylvania line of course falls far short of doing justice to the patriotism of Pennsylvania. It is in fact a mere roll of the line as discharged in January, 1781. The hundreds who fell in all the battles of the Revolution, from Quebec to Charleston, are not here; the wounded who dragged their torn limbs home to die in their na- tive valleys are not here. The heaths of New Jersey, from Paramus to Freehold, by a line encircling Morristown and Bound Brook, were, in the summer of 1777, dotted with the graves of the Eighth and Twelfth Pennsylvania. These regiments from the frontier counties of the State -Westmoreland and Northumberland-were the first of the line in the field, though they had come from the banks of the Monongahela and the head-waters of the Susquehanna. At Brandywine the Pennsylvania troops lost heavily, the Eighth and Twelfth and Col. Hartley's additional regiment in particular, in officers and men ; and Col. Patton's additional regiment, after the battle of Germantown, could not maintain its regi- mental organization."-The Pennsylvania Line, from July 1. 1776, to Nov. 3, 1783.
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Blakeney, Gabriel, private at Long Island ; lieutenant in Flying Camp ; captured at Fort Washington ; resided in Washington County, 1817. Bodkin, James. Booth, George.
Boveard, James, Kilgore's company, 1776-79; died in 1808, in East Buf- falo township, Union County.
Boyer, Oziel, killed in action. Brandon, Michael. Bright, John (e). Bristo, Samuel.
Broadstock, William.
Brothers, Matthew.
Brown, John, resided in Armstrong County, 1825.
Burbridge, Thomas, Kilgore's company ; taken December, 1780; in cap- tivity three years; resided in Westmoreland County, 1805.
Burket, Christopher.
Burns, Pearce, transferred to Invalid Corps, August, 1777.
Byan, David, August, 1777-79 ; Capt. Piggott's company ; served at Sara- toga under Van Swearingen; went West with regiment, 1778; at the building of Fort McIntosh and Fort Laurens; Pennsylvania pen- sioner, 1813.
Sergeants.
Cavenaugh, Barney.
Cheselden, Edward.
Clarke, James.
Cooper, William, of Kilgore's company.
Crawford, Robert, Aug. 20, 1776-Sept. 15, 1779; resided in Venango County, 1825.
Fifer.
Clark, David (e), Capt. Kilgore's company, April, 1777.
Privates.
Cain, Bartholomew. Cain, John.
Calahan, John.
Call, Daniel, resided in Westmoreland County, 1821.
Campbell, George, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., 1786. Carr, Daniel.
Carrenger, Martin. Carswell, Joseph.
Carty, Richard.
Caseves, Patrick, deserted August, 1778.
Castile, Samuel.
Cavenaugh, John.
Cavenaugh, Patrick, enlisted at Carlisle in Capt. Huffnagle's company ; he saved Gen. Lincoln from capture by the British in New Jersey ; afterwards express-rider for Gen. Greene; died in Washington County, April 5, 1823, aged eighty-three.
Chambers, Andrew.
Chambers, Moses, from Ligonier; deserted August, 1778.
Chriswell, Joseph,
Churchfield, John, enlisted July, 1776; wounded in the leg in battle of Germantown; resided in Westmoreland County, 1835, aged eighty- six.
Clark, Benjamin, Kilgore's company ; wounded at Bound Brook, 1777; also, in 1778, on march to Fort McIntosh; resided in Steubenville, Ohio, 1815.
Close, Robert. Coleman, Joseph.
Conner, John.
Connor, Bryan, enlisted July 2, 1777.
Conway, Felix.
Cooper, Joseph,1 deserted August, 1778; died Jan. 16, 1823, in Bedford County, aged sixty-eight.
Cooper, Leonard, from Maryland ; deserted August, 1778.
Cooper, William, Aug. 17, 1776-September, 1779; resided in Venango County, 1810. Corner, Felix. Coveney, Felix. Cripps, John.
Critchlow, James, enlisted August, 1776, in Capt. Moses Carson's com- pany ; served in all the Saratoga engagements under Lieut .- Col. But- ler; resided in Butler County, 1835, aged seventy-eight.
1 The fact of a soldier being marked on one roll deserted amounted to nothing, because they usually returned after a few months' absence.
Crosley, Timothy.
Cruikshank, Andrew, Miller's company, Aug. 17, 1776-September, 1779; resided in Butler County, 1810.
Curtin, John.
Sergeants.
Dennison, James.
Donnalsou, William.
Corporal.
Davis, William, died in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1834, aged eighty- two. Privates.
Darragh, John.
Davis, John, died in Holmes County, Ohio, June 7, 1830, aged sixty-four. Dempey, Thomas.
Dennis, Michael.
Dennis, Thomas, killed in April, 1779.
Dennison, Joseph (e), transferred to Seventh Regiment.
Desperett, Henry.
Dickerson, Henry, enlisted 1776 in Van Swearingen's company ; at Sara- toga, etc .; resided in Washington County in 1813.
Dickson, William.
Dolphin, Joseph.
Dougherty, James, alias Capt. Fitzpatrick, deferted August, 1778, and ex- ecuted for robbery.
Dougherty, Mordecai, brother of above, deserted August, 1778.
Dowden, John.
Du Kinson, Joseph, killed in action.
Sergeant.
Evans, Arnold (e).
Drummer.
Edwards, John.
Fifer.
Evans, Anthony, promoted to fife-major, Third Pennsylvania.
Privates.
Edwards, David (e).
Everall, Charles.
Quartermaster-Sergeant.
Fletcher, Simon.
Sergeants.
Font, Matthew.
Forbes, William. Corporal.
Fitzgibbons, James.
Privates.
Faith, Abraham, Capt. Mann's company, Aug. 15, 1776-Nov. 19, 1779; resided in Somerset County in 1825, aged seventy-four.
Faughey, James, deserted August, 1778
Finn, James, transferred to Invalid Corps.
Fitzgibbons, David.
Fossbrooke, or Frostbrook, John, resided in Bath Co., Ky., in 1834, aged one hundred and four.
Fulton, Joseph, July 4, 1776.
Corporal.
Gladwin, John.
Privates.
Gallagher, Michael, June 7, 1776; deserted before he reached the regi- ment.
Gallagher, John.
Germain, Henry.
Gibbons, David.
Gibson, Henry.
Gill, William, wounded in hand at Bound Brook ; resided in Mercer County in 1833, aged eighty-four.
Girdler, James.
Glenn, Hugh, killed in action.
Graham, Alexander, deserted August, 1778.
Graham, William, Capt. Kilgore's company; resided in Westmoreland County in 1811.
Greenland, James. Grimes, John.
Guthery, Archibald, killed August, 1779.
Gwyne, Joseph, June 7, 1776; served three years ; resided in Greene County in 1808.
Corporal.
Halpen, Joseph.
Privates.
Hamill, Hugh, Finley's company, 1776-79; resided in Westmoreland County in 1809.
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Hancock, Joseph (e), Capt. Mann's company, 1777; resided in Wayne County, Ind., in 1834, aged seventy-seven.
Hanley, Michael.
Hardesty, Obadiah, resided in Lawrence County, Ill., in 1833, aged seventy-one.
Harman, Conrad, died in Muskingum County, Ohio, June 9, 1822, aged seventy-five.
Harvey, Samuel.
Hezlip, Rezin, Stokely's company ; resided in Baltimore in 1813.
Hayes, Jacob, from Brandywine, deserted August, 1778.
Hayes, Joel, from Brandywine, deserted August, 1778.
Hiere, David, deserted August, 1778.
Hoback, Philip, resided in Madison County, Ind., in 1820, aged sixty- four.
Hockley, Richard, Capt. Clark's company ; resided in Westmoreland County in 1813.
Hotten, John, Aug. 2, 1776-Sept. 17, 1779; resided in Westmoreland County in 1812.
Humbar, Nicholas. Hunter, Nicholas (e).
Hunter, Robert, John Finley's company ; wounded at Bound Brook and Paoli ; resided in Westmoreland County in 1808.
Hutchinson, John.
Sergeant.
Jamison, John, Capt. Miller's company ; enlisted in 1776, at Kittaning ; served three years ; resided in Butler County in 1835, aged eighty- four.
Privates.
Jennings, Benjamin, Sept. 9, 1776-Sept. 9, 1779, in Kilgore's company ; drafted into rifle command; resided in Somerset County in 1807. Johnson, Peter (e), resided in Harrison County, Va., in 1829.
Jones, Benjamin, resided in Champaign County, Ohio, in 1833, aged seventy-one. Jordan, John, Westmoreland County.
Justice, Jacob, resided in Bedford County in 1820.
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