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20th. On the 24th marched through Litch- field, Conn., crossed the Connecticut, near Hart- ford, on the 26th, and reached Dudley, Mass., on the 30th of August. On the 31st they marched to Weston and stayed all night ; thence through Farmingham and Watertown to Cam- bridge ; thence to Prospect Hill.'
This movement" was made with Colonel Thompson's battalion (the organization of which has been given). This battalion became the Second Regiment, and, after the 1st of Jan- uary, 1776, the First Regiment " of the army of the United Colonies, commanded by His Excellency General George Washington, Es- quire, general and commander-in-chief." So reads a return dated " Headquarters at Cam- bridge, Aug. 18, 1775," by which it appears that three field officers, nine captains, twenty-seven lieutenants, the adjutant, quartermaster, surgeon and mate, twenty-nine sergeants, thirteen drums and fifes, and seven hundred and thirteen rank and file were present and fit for duty.
Colonel Thompson's men are thus described in Thacher's Mititary Journal,-
"Several companies of riflemen have arrived here from Pennsylvania and Maryland, a distance of from five hundred to seven hundred miles. They are re- markably stout and hardy men, many of them ex- ceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in rifle shirts and round hats. These men are remarkable for the accuracy of their aim, striking a mark with great certainty at two hundred yards' distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick ad- vance, fired their balls into objects of seven inch di- ameter, at a distance of two hundred and fifty yards. They are now stationed on our lines and their shot have frequently proved fatal to British officers and soldiers."
MeCabe, in his sketches of Captain Samuel Brady, has the following mention of him in an allusion to a movement made by Lowdon's company :
"Lowdon's company was ordered to drive the British from an island on which they had landed to forage. Brady was considered too young to go along, and left behind ; but, to the astonishment of the cap- tain, he followed after, and was the second man on the island."
November 9th the British landed at Lech-
Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, vol. x. p. 27.
mere Point, one and a half miles from Cam- bridge, under cover of a fire from their bat- teries on Bunker, Breed and Copp's Hills, as also from a frigate, which lay three hundred yards off the point on which they landed. The high tide prevented our people crossing the causeway for nearly an hour, This time they employed in shooting cows and horses. The battalion of Colonel Thompson took to the wa- ter, although up to their arm-pits, for a quarter of a mile, and, notwithstanding the regular fire, reached the island. Although the enemy were lodged behind stone walls and under cover, on Colonel Thompson's approach they fled, and, although the riflemen followed them to their boats with all speed, they could not bring them to an engagement. Our loss was one killed and three wounded ; English loss, seventeen killed and one wounded."
In " The Letters of Mrs. Adams," wife of John Adams, page 61, under date 12th Novem- ber, 1775, is also a notice of this incident,-
" A number of cattle were kept at Lechmere Point, where two sentinels were placed. In a high tide it is an island. About four hundred men were sent to take the cattle off. As soon as they were perceived, the cannon on Prospect Hill were fired on them and sunk one of their boats. A Colonel Thompson, of the riflemen, marched instantly with his men, and, though a very stormy day, they regarded not the tide, nor waited for boats, but marched over neck-high in water, when the regulars ran without waiting to get off their stock and made the best of their way to the opposite shore. The general sent his thanks in a publie manner to the brave officer and his men."
In the latter part of August, Captain Low- don was the recipient of a letter from Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr., and Reuben Haines, of Philadelphia, of which the following is the chief portion (though there are allusions to other matters, which will be narrated in proper place) :
" PHILADELPHIA, August 13, 1775.
"DEAR SIR :- We hope this letter will find you safe at the head of your company, acting in support and defense of American liberty ; a glorious cause, which must stimulate the breast of every honest and virtuous American, and force him, with undaunted courage and unabated vigor, to oppose those minis- terial robbers. We hope the contest will be ended
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where it began, and that the effusion of blood may be providentially prevented, but, at the same time, we hope to see American liberty permanently established, to have the honor, cre long, to serve in her righteous cause; and we are well convinced that these senti- ments prevail throughout this Province. You can't conceive what a martial spirit prevails here, and in what order we are. Two battalions, with the light in- Antry companies, are very expert in all the mandu- vres, and are generally well furnished with arms. Several companies of riflemen are formed in this city and the adjacent counties, who are become expert in shooting; besides we have sixteen row galleys, with latteen sails, now building. Some of them are already rigged and manned. These galleys are rowed with from twenty-four to thirty oars, and carry each one gun, from eighteen to thirty-two pounds, besides swivel guns, fore and aft. We are told by experienced men that these galleys will prevent any ship of war from coming up this river. All the coast to Georgia is alarmed-prepared to oppose our ministerial ene- mies. Where, then, can these British bastards, those servile engines of ministerial power, go to steal a few sheep. God and nature has prescribed their bounds. They can't deluge our lands, nor float their wooden batteries beyond the bounds prescribed, nor dare they to penetrate so as from afar to view those high-topped mountains which separate the lower plains from our Canaan, and from whence, should their folly or mad- ness prompt them to attempt it, would come forth our thousands and tens of thousands, with gigantic strides, to wash the plains with the blood of those degenerate invaders of the liberties of mankind." * * * * *
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In the journal of Major Ennoin William are given the details of a trip to the camp at Cam- bridge, under date October 17th. IIe says :-
"Guns of one of our batteries, two miles from Bos- ton, firing. One bursted, and killed one man and wounded six. I returned thence to the riflemen's camp, and stopped with Captain Lowdon overnight. At daybreak I awoke, and a few minutes after the morning gun fired. All aroused directly; the men repaired with arms and accouterments to the forts and lines, and in about ten minutes the captains, with their companies, were in the fort, drawn along the sides of the fort, and in two or three minutes they began their firing.
"The captain stepped on the banket or step, inside at foot of breastwork, and gave the word 'Make ready !' The front rank step on the banket, and second step forward. 'Present!' He does not give the word ' Fire !' but makes a pause. Then they re- cover, and face to right about, and march through the files. At the word 'Make ready P' again the next rank steps on the banket, and so on continually. Every man is to be sure of his object before he fires,
as he rests his piece on the parapet. In about half an hour the flag was hoisted. They ceased, and re- tired by regiments to their quarters, and the orderly sergeant read the orders of the day and trials by court-martial, &c."
There are numerous notices of this company in the Hand papers, in the possession of Mrs. S. B. Rogers, of Lancaster, the granddaughter of General Edward Hand, who was lieutenant- colonel, and afterwards colonel, of the First Rifle Regiment. On the 24th of October he says,-
" This morning at dawn Parr, from Northumber- land, with thirty men from us, marched for Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, to defend that place."
On the 8th of March,-
"I am stationed on Cobble Hill, with four compa- nies of our regiment. Two companies, Cluggage's and Chambers', were ordered to Dorchester on Monday ; Ross' and Lowdon's relieved them yesterday. Every regiment is to have a standard and colors. Our stand- ard is to be a deep green ground, the device a tiger, partly inclosed by toils, attempting the pass, defended by a hunter, armed with a spear (in white), on crim- son field. The motto, Domari Nolo."1
March, 1776, the company left Cambridge with the battalion which was detached by Gen- cral Washington, with five other regiments, under General Sullivan, to prevent a landing of the British at New York, when they evacuated Boston. Arrived at Hartford on the 21st, and at New York on the 28th. The company was stationed on Long Island during May and un- til June 30th, when it was mustered out of ser- vice, but many of the men enlisted under Cap- tain James Parr, as we shall presently show.
Following is the roster of Captain Lowdon's company :
Captain : John Lowdon.
First Lieutenant : James Parr.
Second Lieutenant : James Wilson. Third Lieutenant : William Wilson, promoted second lieutenant January 4, 1776.
Third Lieutenant : John Dougherty, appointed Janu- ary 4, 1766.
Sergeants : David Hammond, Alexander McCormick, William McMurray, Cornelius Dougherty.
1 This standard is still in possession of Thomas Robinson, Esq., grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Robinson, of the First Pennsylvania, and was on exhibition at the C'en- tennial, 1876 .---- John Blair Linn, WAnnals of the Buffalo Valley."
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Corporals : Thomas Henry, William Edwards, Cor- nelius Dougherty, John White (died January 8, 1776), James Carson, Charles Cochran.
Drummer: Richard Grosvenor.
Privates: William Adkins; Joseph All, discharged July 31, 1775; John Berniele, afterwards ser- geant in the German Regiment; Samuel Brady, afterwards captain lieutenant Eighth Pennsylva- nia; William Briggs; John Butler, discharged January 25, 1776; William Calhoun; Robert Carothers ; James Carson, advanced to corporal January 4th ; John Casady ; Samuel Cealy ; David Clements ; Charles Cochran, advanced to corporal January 8th, discharged July 1, 1776, living in Crawford County in 1819; Peter Condon; David Davis; John Dean; John Eicholtz, residing in Lancaster in 1813; John Evans; Jacob Fink- boner; Charles Ford; James Garson ; Philip Ginter; Thomas Gilston ; John Hamilton ; David Harris; Michael Hare; Thomas Hempington; Christopher Henning; William Humber; Wil- liam Jamison ; Samuel Johns; James John- ston ; Lewis Jones; Thomas Kilday; Nicholas Kline; John Ladley; Samuel Lowdon; William Leek; Robert Lines; Thomas Lobden; Reuben Massaker; Moses Madock; John Malone; Chas. Maloy ; Alexander McMullen; Patrick Mc- Gonigal; Cornelius McConnell; Martin McCoy ; James McCleary ; Edward MeMasters, resided in Lycoming County in 1823; William Mor- gan ; William Murray; Timothy Murphy ; John Murphy; John Neely (he was cap- tured at Fort Freeland, July 28, 1779, and taken to Canada ; Daniel Oakes); John Oliver ; Michael Parker ; Thomas Peltson, re-enlisted in the First Pennsylvania, and was killed by Joseph Blackburn in 1777; Peter Pence; John Ray; Robert Richie; Bartholomew Roach ; John Rob- inson ; George Sands ; George Saltzman ; George Segar ; Henry Silverthorn ; John Shawnee (was a Shawanese Indian, died at Milesburg-see Jones' " Juniata Valley," page 352); John Smith (son of Widow Smith, of White Deer Mills, he never came back from the army) ; James Speddy (lived and died at New Berlin) ; Arad Sutton (lived on Lycoming Creek ; the first Methodist Society in Northern Pennsylvania was formed at his house in 1791; ; James Sweeney, discharged July 20, 1775; John Teel ; Robert Tuft, dis- charged October 25, 1775; Philip Valentine, dis- charged July 20, 1775; Peter Ward; John Ward; Charles West, died January 4, 1776; Joseph Whiteneck ; Aaron Wright, (residing in Reading in 1840) ; John Youse; Robert Young, (died in Walker township, Centre County, in 1824).
Congress resolved to re-enlist Thompson's battalion, and before General Washington be-
came aware of the intentions of that body he wrote to urge such a measure, saying that "as the loss of such a valuable and brave body of men " would greatly injure the service, it was best, if possible, to induce them to remain, and adding, " They are indeed a very useful corps; but I need not mention this, as their importance is already well known to the Congress."
On the 1st of July the battalion entered upon another term of service, for three years, or during the war, as the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line in the Continental service.
Following is the roll of Captain James Parr's company (originally Lowdon's), enlisted July 1, 1776 :
Captain: James Parr, promoted major October 9, 1778.
First Lieutenant : James Wilson.
Second Lieutenant: William Wilson, promoted cap- tain March 2, 1777.
Third Lieutenant : John Dougherty.
Sergeants : David Hammond (promoted second lieu- tenant September 14, 1777; first lieutenant, May 12, 1779), Alexander McCormick, William Mc- Murray, Cornelius Dougherty.
Privates.
David Allen. James Moore.
Michael Bacher. William Moore.
John Bradley. William Morgan.
Daniel Callahan. John Murphy.
Daniel Campbell.
Patrick Murray.
Peter Condon.
John Noishen.
James Conner.
George Norton.
Mansfield Coons.
John Oliver.
David Davis.
Thomas Paine.
Richard Dubois. Thomas Peltson.
Cornelius Delling. Philip Peter.
Patrick Donahue.
John Rankin
William Edwards.
John Ray.
John Griffin.
William Ryan.
William Haggerty.
George Saltman.
John Hammond.
Samuel Scott.
Philip Henry.
William Scott.
Aquila Hinson.
James Sprigg.
John Hutchinson.
James Speddy.
Lewis Jones.
Thomas Stewart.
William Leech.
Maurice Sullivan.
Michael Loughrey.
James Loughrey.
James MeCleary.
George Warren.
Cornelius McConnell.
Jonathan Washburn.
Henry McCormick.
Matthew Wilson.
Samuel Willson.
Joseph Whiteneck. John Youse.
Hugh MeCaughey. John Malone. Charles Meloy.
Alexander Thompson.
John Toner.
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Captain Casper Weitzel, a lawyer of Sunbury, appointed captain March 9, 1776, raised a com- puny in and around the place of his residence, which had a place in the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, commanded by Colonel Samuel Miles, which was raised in about six weeks, and ren- dezvoused at Marcus Hook. On the 2d of July the regiment was ordered up to Philadelphia, and on the 5th the whole regiment marched to Trenton, and thence later to Amboy. On the loth of August, Colonel Miles was ordered over to New York. The regiment participated in the battle of Long Island, August 27th, and Weitzel's company lost twenty officers and tuen.
Captain Weitzel, writing to his brother John, under date of September 6, 1776, "camp near King's Bridge, sixteen miles above New York,"
. . . You .no doubt before now have heard of the drubbing we Pennsylvanians, with the Delaware and Maryland battalions, got on Long Island on the 27th of August last; we were prettily taken in. The General Sullivan who commanded on Long Island is much blamed, I saw nothing of him in the engage- mient or some days before. The little army we had on the island, of five thousand men, was surrounded by fifteen or twenty thousand English and Hessians when the engagement began; they gave us a good deal of trouble, but we fought our way bravely through them. The number of English and Hessians killed is surprising great, and of ours very trifling; but they have taken about seven hundred of our people prisoners, and amongst them more officers than was perhaps ever known in the like number of men. " My Lieutenant Gray, Sergeant Gordon, Sergeant Price and sixteen privates are missing. I know of only one killed in my company. The poor fellow was wounded in the thigh and unable to walk ; his name is Speiss. The d-d savage Hessians and English Light In- fantry run their bayonets through him and two of Captain Albright's men, who were also badly wounded and murdered by them. I have this from one of my men who was a prisoner and escaped to me, and imagines the rest are prisoners. James Watt is among them. I came off with whole bones, contrary to my expectations."
The regiment afterward consolidated with another; followed the fortunes of the Continental army ; was engaged in the capture of the Hes- sians at Trenton, December 26, 1776; in the battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777; lay part
of the winter in Philadelphia, and moved down to Billingsport in March, 1777.
Following is the muster-roll of Captain Casper Weitzel's company when at camp near Kingsbridge, September 1, 1776 :
Captain : Casper Weitzel, Esq., of Sunbury, appointed March 9, 1776.
First Lieutenant : William Gray, appointed March 15th; captured August 27th ; exchanged Decem- ber 8, 1776, for Lieutenant Thompson.
Second Lieutenant : John Robb, appointed March 16, 1776 ; promoted captain April 18, 1777.
Third Lieutenant: George Grant, appointed March
19, 1776 ; captain in the 9th P. C. L, ; died Oc- tober 10, 1779.
Sergeant-Major : John Gordon.
Sergeants: Jacob Snider, Thomas Price, William Orr, Thomas Shanks.
Drummer: John Everard; September 1st, sick at New York.
Privates.
William Allison.1 Thomas Hissom.
John Arthur.
Dennis Huggins.1
John Aumiller. Elijah Hunt.
William Barr.
James Irvine.
Peter Brady.1
Martin Kerstetter.1
Stout Brinson.
Thomas Little.
John Burke. Charles McCleane.
Samuel Carson.
William McCormick.1
William Carson, Jr.
John McDonald.
William Carson, Sr.
Patrick McInnis.
Charles Carter.
William McMath.
Robert Caruthers.1
Patrick McVey.1
James Chisnell.
Joseph Madden.
William Clark.
Henry Miller.
James Clayton.
Robert Morehead.1
Jeffry Connell.
Richard Newman.
John Cribs.
Michael Noland.
David Curry.
Andrew Ralston.
Peter Davis.
James Randolph.
Edward Doran. John Rice.1
David Durell.
John Sands.
Stephen Durell. John Shaffer.
James Elder.
Jacob Spiess.1
Christian Ewig. Samuel Staples.
Henry Gass.1 David Turner.
Henry Gerhart. James Watt.1
James Glover.
Robert Wilson.
John Hardy.
Christian Winters.
William Harper.
Silas Wolcot.
Casper Weitzel, Esq., was a lawyer, prac- ticing at Sunbury when the war broke out in 1775, and as secretary of the County Com-
I Missing after the battle of Long Island, August 27th.
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Patrick McManus.
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mittee took a very active part in favor of in- dependence. At the battle of Long Island he fought through the British ranks and made his way into camp with Lieutenant-Colonel Brod- head. His rolls, written in his own neat hand, are in the office of the Secretary of the Com- monwealth. He died in 1782. He was a grand-unele of P. R. Weitzel, Esq., of Seran- ton, P'a.
Lieutenant William Gray-afterwards Cap- tain Gray-died at Sunbury, July 18, 1804, aged fifty-four.
Sergeant Price ended his days in a small log house on Water Street, in Selin's Grove. It seems he was carried to Halifax, in Nova Scotia. Made his escape traveling through the vast forests intervening between that coun- try and the nearest American settlements. In a letter to Hon. Samuel Maclay, member of Congress at Philadelphia, dated Penn's town- ship, December 4, 1798, written in a very good hand, he complains that he had been three times elected colonel, beating Charles Drum twice and Frederick Evans once, and yet had not been commissioned ; because, as he says, it was alleged that he was too poor for such a post. He says,-
" I settled in these parts before the war and have resided here ever since, except while I was out in the army. I enlisted in Captain Weitzel's company and was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island. E underwent many hardships, but at last found means to escape; returned to the army and served my time out; was honorably discharged and never received my pay. Soon after my return home I was elected adjutant, and continued in that post many years; afterwards was elected major." 1
The Associators of Buffalo and Penn's town- ships-practically coextensive with the present counties of Union and Snyder-on August 31, 1776, held an election for field officers, and on the 8th of October following commissions were issued to them as officers of the Fourth Battalion of Northumberland County Associators, and also to the company officers, as follows :
"Colonel, Philip Cole; Lieutenant-Colonel, Thomas Sutherland; First Major, Thomas Foster; Second Major, Casper Yost ; Standard-Bearer, Dewalt Miller ; Adjutant, James McCoy.
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"Company No. 1 .- Captain, John Clarke; First Lieu- tenant, Henry Pontins; Second Lieutenant, James Moore; Ensign, Patrick Watson.
" Four sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, one fifer, and forty-six privates, certified by me, this 26th day of September, 1776.
JOHN CLARKE, Captain. "Second Company .-- Captain, Michael Weaver,
" Third Company .-- Captain, Jacob Links.
" Fourth Company .-- Captain, William Weirick ; First Lieutenant, Jacob Sherred ; Second Lieutenant, William Gill; Ensign, Nicholas Moon.
"Four sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, one fifer, forty privates: The whole of the above as asso- ciators testified by me, this 26th day of September, 1776.
"WILLIAM WEIRICK, Captain.
" Fifth Company .- Captain, George Wolff; First Lieutenant, George Conrad; Second Lieutenant, Michael Wildgoose; Ensign, John Hessler.
"Four sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, one fifer, forty-one privates.
"Sixth Company .- Captain, George Overmeier; First Lieutenant, James McCelvey; Second Lieu- tenant, Peter Weirick ; Ensign, Michael Snyder.
"Four sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, one fifer, forty privates. The whole of the above as associators testified by me, this 26th day of Septem- ber, 1776.
" CAPTAIN GEORGE OVERMEIER."
Drafts from this battalion went into service in December, when Colonel Cole was with part of it at Reading. Colonel Brodhead wrote that he made use of a company from Buffalo Valley to apprehend some of the disaffected and to compel some of the militia of Berks to march. When the danger to Philadelphia became im- minent, it is probable that officers and men volunteered to fill up Captain Clarke's company, as their names are found on the following roll. The company left the valley on the 5th of December, and served three months and eighteen days. It appears from some memorandums in an old account-book which contained the roster, that the company did not leave Reading until the 3d of January, 1777, and consequently did not participate at Trenton and Princeton, but was in the subsequent skirmishes. It was at- tached to Colonel Potter's Second Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel James Murray, Majors John Kelly and Thomas Robinson. Joseph Green assigned as surgeon's mate to Doctor Benjamin Allison. Four companies-Clarke's, Lee's, Tag-
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Kart'sand Cookson Long's-had casualties during the campaign.' Following is the roll of Captain John Clarke's company :
Robert Allen.
Jacob Long.
Hieronimus Augustine.
Joseph Barnett.
William Long. Richard Lowdon. John McCashon.
John Beatty.
George Bower.
James MeCelvey.
Thomas Cery.
Matthew MeClung. Randal MeDonneld. Valentine Macklin. Benjamin Miller.
Daniel Cogh.
Adam Colpetzer.
Daniel Commer.
William Moor.
Jacob Conner.
Andrew Morrow.
George Conrad,
Henry Nees.
Henry Conrad.
Peter Nees.
William Cousins.
George Overmeier.
Jacob Esterly.
Nicholas Pontius.
George Etzweiler.
George Pontius.
Philip Ewig.
Frederick Rinehart.s
Michael Fought.
George Rinehart. .
Thomas Foster.
Yost Rith (or Ritle).
John Fry.
Michael Rote.
William Gill.
Ludwig Row.
Henry Gilman.
George Sierer.
Joseph Green.
Michael Schneider.
William Greenlee.
John Schock.
Joseph Groninger.
Michael Schock.
Wendell Grove.
George Schock.
John Hain.
Robert Scott.
Jacob Harpster.
Michael Smith.
Stophel Heny.
William Speddy.
William Hessler.
Jacob Speese.
John Hessler.
James Stevenson.
Michael Hessler.
David Storm.
Patrick Kellahan.
Robert Thompson.
Jacob Keeny.
George Ulrich.
Francis Kishler.
John Weaver.
Frederick Kneedler.
David Weaver.
Conrad Kneedler.
Henry Wenderbach.
Michael Lamb.
Robert Wilson.
Jacob Links.
George Wolfe.
Some facts concerning the officers and men of this company are given by Mr. Linn in his ad- mirable volume on the Buffalo Valley. He says,-
Captain Clarke lived on the first farm above Mifflinburg, south of the turnpike; died Feb- ruary 22, 1809, aged seventy-three; buried in Lewis graveyard. Lieutenant Thomas Foster, grandfather of Mrs. Mark Halfpenny, died June 1, 1801; buried in Lewis graveyard. Angustine was a weaver; lived near Selin's
Grove as late as 1800. George Bower lived in Union township. Joseph Barnett became the patriarch of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. (See a full notice of him in Day's " Historical Collections.") Hon. I. G. Gordon, of Brook- ville, writes me, 1871, that some of his grand- children live near that place. John Beatty lived near New Berlin. George Clark was a promi- nent surveyor in the valley until 1800, and then removed West. He lived in a house near Judge Hummel's, now torn down. He was an exceedingly tall man, and took delight in making his axe-marks as surveyor beyond the reach of other men. He once made a narrow escape from the Indians by leaping Little Buf- falo Creek, from the high bank near late Jacob Moyer's. It was attributed to Brady, but Bra- dy's leap was in the western part of the State, in Armstrong County. Jacob Conner lived in Buffalo. Adam Colpetzer, in West Buffalo; married a daughter of George Rote, of Mifflin- burg. George Etweiler was killed by the Indi- ans in 1780, at Heberling's mill, then French Jacob Grochong's. Michael Fought, in Union, on Seebold's farm, near Chappel Hollow, east of it. William Gill, in Penn's. Wendell Grove, in Derrstown. Henry Gilman, in White Deer. Joseph Groninger, in Kelly, on Clingan's place. Joseph Green, near Philip Pontius'; he was grandfather of Joseph Green, of Lewisburgh. Jacob Harpster, in Beaver township. John Hain, in Penn's. The Hesslers, near Crotzer- ville ; the church there bears their name. Chris- topher Heny, on General James Irvine's (now, or lately, Kleckner's), west of Mifflinburg. Pat -. rick Kellahan, northwest of Mifflinburg. Jacob Keeny, on John Aurand's place, Turtle Creek. Richard Lowdon was a brother of Captain John, and lived with him. Andrew Morrow was a tenant on Samuel Maclay's place. Benjamin Miller afterwards owned James Biehl's place. Matthew McClung, late George Gundy's heirs, near Turtle Creek. Randal MeDonneld, on S. Maclay's, just north of the Great Western (now Mrs. Shoemaker's.) Peter Nees died of wounds received February 1, 1777. George Overmeier lived near Seebold's, in Limestone. Nicholas Pontius was the father of the late J. F. Pontius. George was his brother, sons of John, who
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