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Sergeants : William Clark, Matthew Wilson. .
Privates: John Trester, Nicholas Lamberson, John Rough, Uriah Barber, Jacob Trester, John Shock, Paul Fisher, George Bower, Matthew Bradley, Daniel Bower, Jacob Houser, William Harriott, Michael Grove.
Lieutenant : Samuel McGrady.
Sergeants : Samuel Montgomery, Daniel Armstrong.
2 Penn. Archives, Second Series, vol. xi. p. 744-745.
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Privates: Robert Love, Ephraim Daraugh, - Flem- ing, Samuel Fulton, William Marshall, Joseph Lykens, John Misener, George Clark, Daniel Rees, William Speddy, --- -- Pollock.
The First Battalion of Northumberland County militia, commanded by Colonel John Kelly, had at this time a strength, rank and file, of over four hundred, distributed in the following com- panies :
Captain John Foster, numbering, officers and pri- vates, fifty-five men.
Captain James Thompson, numbering, officers and privates, forty-four men.
Captain George Overmeier, numbering, officers and privates, fifty-one men.
Captain Samuel Fisher, numbering, officers and pri- vates, fifty-five men.
Captain Samuel Young, numbering, officers and pri- vates, fifty-one men.
Captain Abraham Piatt, numbering, officers and pri- vates, fifty-three men.
Captain William Irvine, numbering, officers and pri- vates, fifty-three men.
Captain William Gray, numbering, officers and pri- vates, forty-four men.
The capture of the Emerick family, and atrocious murder of its head, David Emerick, was one of the most startling events of the year. Various outrages followed, and they were kept up until winter set in, when, as usual, the In- dians retired to their permanent towns, deep in the wilderness. They began their incursions again early in the spring of 1782. A number of Captain Overmeier's men, who were out upon a scout, were met by a party of Indians, May 6th, in what is now Limestone township, and two of them were killed.
Major John Lee and other members of his family, John Walker, a Mrs. Boatman and daughters, were killed a few miles above Sunbury, in August, and several more were taken captive. The Indian band which made this descent, about sixty or seventy in number, were pursued by Col- onel ITunter and a force of men, but escaped their vengeance. Some minor atrocities occurred at in- tervals later in 1782, and during 1783,' but by the close of the latter year the peoplegenerally had re- turned to the West Branch and all the northern
and western region of old Northumberland, which had so long been at the merey of a steal- thy, savage enemy-the almost constant scene of pillage and burning and blood.
Upon the 19th of October, 1781, Cornwallis' forces -- seven thousand two hundred and forty- seven British and Hessian soldiers-surrendered at Yorktown, and by a swift courier the news was borne to Congress at Philadelphia, the mes- senger arriving there on the evening of the 23d; and the sentinels, when they called the hour of the night-" ten o' the clock and all is well"-added, " and Cornwallis is taken." This news, which spread rapidly through Pennsyl- vania and the other colonies, brought the long- suffering inhabitants to a realization that they were at last, even if an impoverished, an inde- pendent people. Though the armies remained for some time in the field, the war had really ended. Preliminary articles of peace were agreed to between Great Britain and the Con- federation of Colonies November 30, 1782, and the definitive treaty was concluded at Paris upon the 3d of September, 1783.
Thus closed the Revolution, but upon the frontier its animosities and asperities died sul- lenly and slowly away, like the last, lingering reverberations of thunder in the passing of a mighty storm. Peace came at last-like the warm sunshine after long and dreary winter- and with it began a new life through all of the great interior of Pennsylvania.
GENERAL NOTE .- Following are brief notes upon Revolutionary soldiers, who, either before or after the struggle, lived within the five counties which are the province of this work, and who are either omitted from, or inade- quately mentioned in, the text of the foregoing chapter :
Michael Reigal resided in Mifflin County in 1835, aged eighty-four; was in the "German Regiment," Continental Line.
Adam Specht was in the German Regiment from 1776 to 1779. He was discharged at Northumber- land. Ile died at New Berlin, Union County, October 4, 1824.
William Martin was in the Second Troop of the First Partisan Legion, January 26, 1781, to Novem- ber 15, 1783, and prior to that in the Third Pennsyl-
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vania. Ile resided in Milford township, Mifflin County, in 1813.
Benjamin Lyon, captain in First Pennsylvania- Colonel Edward Hands-promoted from lieutenant December 8, 1778; resigned May 1779, on account of ill health. In 1835 he was living in Mifflin County, aged eighty-two.
Samuel Wharton, who was a private in the Second Pennsylvania of the Continental Line, 1777-81, died in Mifflin County, August 18, 1823, aged eighty- one years.
Robert Vernon, who was also in the Second Penn- sylvania Regiment, Continental Line; resided in Mifflin County in 1809. He was wounded in the right arm at the battle of Monmouth.
George Martin was drafted into Morgan's Rifle command. He was wounded at Saratoga, October, 1777, and was subsequently in the Twelfth Pennsyl- vania. Continental Line. In 1786 he was living in the Buffalo Valley, Union County. He died March 10, 1816.
Joseph Cunningham, who was living in Lack Township, Mifflin County, in 1817, went into the Third Pennsylvania as a private, and was promoted to ser- geant June 1, 1777, and discharged January 17, 1781.
John McMullen, who lived in Mifflin County after the war, and died there January 3, 1832, aged eighty- one, was in the Second Battalion, and after January 1, 1777, in the Third Regiment. He was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth, and the storming of Stony Point; was captured with thirty-three others at Newark, and was a prisoner nine months and ten days. He rejoined the company of Thomas Butler, and then marched south with the company of Captain Henderson. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis.
William McMullen, who was also in the Third Regiment, was living in Mifflin County in 1835, aged eighty-four.
Daniel Sallada, another soldier of the Third Regi- ment, was living in Mifflin County in 1835, aged ninety-six.
Daniel Davis, who, in 1818, was living in Lewistown, Mifflin County, was in the Fifth Regiment; wounded at Brandywine, taken prisoner, exchanged and dis- charged.
Henry Hoover, living in Mifflin County in 1812, was in Captain Christie's company of the Fifth Regi- ment. He was wounded at Germantown, and dis- charged January 20, 1781.
John Kerner was out with Captain Nagel's com- pany, Thompson's Rifles, and re-enlisted in Captain Moser's company, Sixth Pennsylvania. He was wounded in 1777, and discharged in 1781. . He died in Union County, June 22, 1829, aged eighty-nine.
James Boveard, of Kilgore's company, Eighth Regiment, 1776-79, died in 1808 in East Buffalo town- ship, Union County.
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS RESIDING IN UNION COUNTY IN 1820.1
Jonathan Brown had served three years as a private in Captain Elijah Humphrey's company, Colonel William Douglas' regiment, and was sixty-two years old.
Joseph Britton enlisted at John Stetler's tavern, in Limerick township, Montgomery County, in the spring of 1776, in Captain Caleb North's company, of Colonel Anthony Wayne's regiment. Britton was, in 1820, seventy-one years old, a farmer, and had a wife and two daughters.
Dewalt Billman, aged sixty-seven, enlisted at Read- ing in Captain Jacob Bowers' company.
Daniel Burd, seventy-five years oldl, enlisted at Am- boy, Colonel James Treddle's regiment; served five years, nine months, except three months when he was at home sick. He was wounded in the left thigh at Battle Hill, with two musket-balls.
George Bower, of White Dcer. Pressed in the fall of 1777 as teamster; had charge of an ammunition wagon at Valley Forge. Drafted in June, 1778; arrived on the field of Monmouth as the battle was closing. He received a sword-cut on the knee from a British soldier who lay in ambush by the road.
McDonald Campbell served in Captain John Con- way's company, Colonel William Wind's New Jersey regiment thirteen months. Re-enlisted in Colonel John Conway's regiment and served nine months, and then was detailed by General Green as his ex- press rider, and remained such during the war. Was a fifer in Captains Conway's and Furman's companies. He married a widow Valentine, who had two children, -Jesse, aged thirteen ; Jane, aged ten. His children by her were Isaac Wilson Campbell, Sally Walls, Al- meda, Eleanor and Elizabeth.
Anthony Carney, blacksmith, Hartley, enlisted in Orange County, North Carolina; served three years. He was sixty-seven in 1820, and had no family except his wife, Catherine.
Peter Clemmens, private in Captain Stake's com- pany, Colonel Butler's regiment, and served two years. He left a daughter, Elizabeth. His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1820.
John Campbell (still living in West Buffalo, 1838, and then eighty-three years old) was drafted into the militia from Derry township, Lancaster County, in 1776; served under Captain Robert McKee; arrived at Trenton the day after the capture of the Hessians, and went thence to Morristown. In the latter part of 1777 he was again drafted, and went to Trenton. His third tour was at the close of the war, in a com- pany commanded by Lieutenant James Laird. They lay at Chestnut Hill awhile. Campbell moved to Buffalo Valley in 1777; lived on Captain Gray's farm one year; then moved to another farm of the captain's near James Dale's. He lived there seven years ; then
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moved near Buffalo Mountain, then into West Buffalo, where he died.
John Cook, private in Captain Herbert's company, from Womelsdorf, who was taken prisoner at the sur- render of Fort Washington, exchanged and appointed ensign in the Twelfth, Colonel Cooke's. He was un- married and childless in 1820, seventy-eight years old.
George Coryell was a native of Hunterdon County, New Jersey ; was born at Coryell's Ferry, on the Del- aware River (now Lambertville), on the 28th of April, 1761. He entered the army in Captain Craig's com- pany of dragoons in 1776, just after the taking of the Hessians, and before the cannonade at Trenton, on the 2d of January, 1777. His company marched up the creek and was at the battle at Princeton. He was a year with Captain Craig. He was afterwards drafted into a company of dragoons under Lieutenant Reading, in which he served one year. He was after- wards drafted into the company of Captain Palmer, in which he continued until the fall of 1780. He was only sixteen years of age when he enlisted. George Coryell was married in 1790 to a sister of Richard Van Buskirk, of Mifflinburg, and moved in 1793 to the premises of Samuel Maclay, in Buffalo township. He was a carpenter by trade, and built many houses in Buffalo Valley. Coryell was adjutant of Colonel George Weirick's regiment, at Marcus Hook, in 1814. He removed to Lycoming County once; then back to Buffalo Valley ; then to White Deer Valley; thence to Butler County (Ohio), near Hamilton, where he died, 1837-38. His wife soon followed him to the grave. He had four sons-Tunison, John, Joseph R. and Abraham-of whom Tunison, the eldest, and Abraham, the youngest, alone, survive.
Christian Derr, West Buffalo, aged, in 1820, seventy- two. Enlisted at Reading, in Captain Nagle's com- pany, Colonel Thompson's regiment, and served one year; re-enlisted in November, 1776, in Captain Moore's company, Colonel Humpton's regiment, and served in the battle of King's Bridge, 11th January, 1777, Brandywine and Germantown. In the last ac- tion he was wounded, had several ribs broken, and was, therefore, discharged. He had eleven children. He had three balls in his body, which he carried to his grave. His children were Ellis Derr, Milllinburg; Samuel, Uniontown; Heury, Schellsburg, Bedford County; Susan, married to Jesse Egbert, afterwards David Kline, of Hartley; Polly, to - Jones, of Sugar Valley ; Elizabeth, to William Kepner, moved to Venango; John, Oley township, Berks; Catherine, to Henry Barrich; Christian, Jr., who died in Spring township, Centre County, in 1852. His chil- dren live in and about Bellefonte: Daniel ; Rachel, married to William Young; William, in Benezet; Christian and Solomon, in Bellefonte.
Christian Ewig, aged sixty, enlisted at Sunbury, in Captain Weitzel's company, Colonel Miles' regiment, in April, 1776; served one year, nine months; then re-
enlisted at Sunbury in Captain James Wilson's First Pennsylvania, Colonel James Chambers, in which he served until the close of the war. . A wheelwright by trade.
George Kerstetter, blacksmith, Washington town- ship, aged sixty-four. Served four years in Captain Burkhart's company, Colonel Hunsecker's regiment, Children: Jacob and Dorothy. Wife's name was Elizabeth,
John Linn, aged sixty-five, enlisted in the winter of 1778, at Lancaster, in Third Troop, Captain Eras- mus Gill, Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel Stephen Moylan. Discharged in October, 1783. Had five children,-Robert Bruce, born May 21, 1806; Altha, January 15, 1808; James Smith, October 20, 1811; Eliza, June 4, 1814; Mary Jane, November 23, 1816. Weaver by trade.
George Lennox, private, Captain Bankson's com- pany, Colonel Stewart's regiment.
Elias Reger, enlisted in May, 1775, Captain George Nagle's company, Colonel Thompson, First Rifle Reg- iment. In the siege of Boston. Discharged at Long Island, June, 1776. Cooper by trade. Seventy-seven years old.
Philip Rorabaugh, Buffalo township, served three months in Pennsylvania Line, Captain Slaymaker's company, Colonel Bull's regiment, while the army lay at Valley Forge. Served also in the campaign of 1794, known as the Whisky Insurrection, and three months in Captain John Bergstresser's company, at Marcus Hook, in 1814. This hero of three wars died February 3, 1837, aged eighty-six, and is buried in Lewisburgh German grave-yard.
Daniel Swesey died in White Deer, 31st January 1836, leaving a widow, Mary.
Timothy Strickland, carpenter, Lewisburgh, en- listed in 1776, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Captain Bacon's company Colonel Porter's regiment, and served therein one year. Re-enlisted in Septem- ber, 1777, in Captain Mill's company, New York State Line, and was honorably discharged after three years' service. Aged, in May, 1824, seventy-three, but very much crippled. He had four sons (Samuel was a soldier of 1814). His grandchildren reside still in Lewisburgh ; Cyrus, a grandson, in Bellefonte.
Adam Smith was a teamster during the Revolution. He settled upon the place now owned by Jacob Kun- kle, above Henry Mertz's. He died there and was buried at the Dreisbach grave-yard. His sons were Adam, George, Michael and John, and a daughter, married to Michael Maize, another to Steffy Touch- man.
Michael Yiesely, aged sixty-seven, enlisted in Au- gust, 1776, in Captain B. Weiser's company, in Col- onel Haussegger's regiment. Served during the war, and was discharged in 1783. He had a wife and five children -- Henry, Catherine, George, Elizabeth and Maria.
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The following is a list of the soldiers of the Revolution in Juniata County in 1840 (pen- sioners) :
Jacob Wise, aged eighty-three, Mifflintown. George Rhiam, aged eighty-three, Walker. Mary Cox, aged ninety-three, Greenwood. Lawrence Koon, aged eighty-two, Greenwood. Frederick Keller, aged eighty-three, Greenwood. Thomas Burchfield, aged eighty-five, Fayette. John Bell, aged eighty-eight, Fayette.
Emanuel Ebbs, aged one hundred and six, Fayette. James Leviney, aged one hundred and four, Fay- ette.
John Middaugh, aged eighty-one, Turbett.
William Patton, aged eighty-two, Turbett.
Sarah Nicholson, aged eighty-seven, Tuscarora.
David Hackendorn, aged seventy-seven, Tuscarora. John Lemon, aged seventy-two, Lack.
SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION IN PERRY COUNTY.
Englehart Wormley, of Tyrone township, died on the 28th of August, 1827. He participated in the disastrous battle of Long Island, and the subsequent engagements which followed. He was never injured during his term of service.
Andrew Burd, of Greenwood township, entered the army as a fifer-boy when but fourteen years old, and served the faithful seven, being discharged when he had just attained his majority.
Benjamin Bonsall, Sr., of Greenwood township, died in 1845, aged eighty-nine years. He served in the militia during the " freezing and starving" win- ter at Valley Forge.
Thomas Brown, of Tyrone township, was a Rev- olutionary soldier, and so thoroughly imbued with love of his country that he made provision in his will for the reading of the Declaration of Independ- ence over his open grave, after which a minister was to pray for him and his beloved country.
Edward Donnelly, of Buckwheat Valley, Tuscarora towship, served in the militia.
Alexander Gaily, of Penn township, died in Cove Valley on the 13th of November, 1842, aged one hun- dred and two years. He served in the Revolutionary army.
Andrew Lynch, of Tuscarora township, served in the Revolutionary army, but of what date or length of term, whether volunteer or militia, we could not learn.
Benjamin Essick, of Liverpool township, died at the advanced age of ninety-three. He served in the militia.
David Focht was a Revolutionary soldier, and one of the first settlers in western Perry County. He lived in Jackson township.
William Heim, the father of Rev. John William Heim, removed from Mahanoy township, Northum- berland County, to Jackson township, Perry County,
in 1815, where he died on the 2d of March, 1856. He was the last surviving hero of the Revolution living in the county. He died aged ninety-five, and his funeral was attended by one hundred and fifty riders on horseback. Mr. Heim is said to have been able to re- late many incidents of the contests in which he was engaged, but they were never written, and have now passed into that history which no living recollection can recall. He asked the national government to reward his services, but being unable to furnish other evidence than the existence of his name on the roll of his company, he never received the pension to which he was justly entitled. The State recognized his ser- vices by a small yearly annuity.
There were from Watts township (then Greenwood), in the Revolutionary army, John Buchanan, whose descendants are now living in the townships of Green- wood and Liverpool; Robert Moody, Mr. Montz, Mr. Philips, William Rodgers and William Philips. These men were all distinguished for their patriotism, but of their achievements in the sanguinary struggle which gave us a nation, no detailed account can be gathered.
William Patterson served in the patriot army one year. He lived in that part of Duncannon known as Petersburg. . It was then scarcely a village of Rye township. Mr. Patterson remembered the Tories mustering on Young's Hill.
Peter Kipp served seven years as a soldier in the American army. He returned home after Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, and lived for many years afterward in Buffalo township.
George Albright, one of the first settlers of Buck's Valley, shouldered his musket at the breaking out of the war, and went forth to serve his country as a sol- dier, while his wife, with a servant-girl and several small boys, did the farming.
CHAPTER V.
THE FIVE COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF 1812-TROOPS IN THE NIAGARA AND CHESAPEAKE CAMPAIGNS.
WAR was not formally declared against Great Britain by President Madison until June 18, 1812, but in Pennsylvania, as in nearly all of the Eastern States, his action was anticipated by the various executives, and in this commonwealth strong measures were resorted to for placing the militia in a serviceable condition as soon as the first issuance of federal authority warranted it. The President having, in conformity to an act of Congress, required a draft of fourteen thousand men as the quota of Pennsylvania, energetic
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and patriotie Governor Snyder issued his first general order, which was also a most spirited appeal, for the furtherance of that end, on May 12, 1812.
In Northumberland County, which then in- cluded the territory now in Union and Snyder, drafting from the militia was proposed as early as June -Ith, and a meeting was held for that. purpose. Jared Irwin's company was formed prior to August 20th, and by September 7th over three hundred enlisted men left Milton to join General Dearborn's volunteers and drafted men. They had orders to march to Meadville, and there was great consternation in the valley about their going away, the people having fears that their own region might in time be the scene of hostilities-an apprehension which, fortun- ately, was never realized. It is noted in Roan's journal that more volunteers were upon the march upon September 10th, and that upon the 20th three hundred of them passed through Lewisburgh.
In Mifflin County, which is the only one of the five counties treated in this volume which was in existence at the beginning of the war, the people were as early and as patriotically astir as in old Northumberland, or any other portion of the commonwealth. Mifflin, with Huntingdon and Centre Counties, formed the Eleventh Militia District, the quota of which under the first call for fourteen thousand men, was six hundred and eighty-six. Within this district at least one company of militia-belong- ing principally to Huntingdon County-had voted to tender their services to the President as early as May 4, 1812, and subsequently marched to Buffalo. In the mean time other companies, belonging more exclusively to that part of the division which was within our territory,-Mif- flin County,-had perfected their organizations and were ready for the field.
In the Juniata Gazette (published at Lewis- town) of September 11, 1812, we find the fol- lowing call :
"The members of Captain Millikin's Troop of Horse are requested to meet at the house of Alexander Reed on Saturday, the 19th inst. All those persons desirous of serving their country are earnestly in- vited to come forward and join the troop."
This company went to Meadville, and thence to Buffalo, with the other companies first organ- ized in what are now Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder Counties. It is to be regret- ted that no roster of its men has been pre- served.
That portion of Mifflin which is now Juniata County had also been quick to respond to Gov- ernor Snyder's call, as appears from an item in the same issue of the Juniata Gazette from which we have already quoted. The item is dated Mifflintown, September 8, 1812, and reads,-
"This place witnessed this day a spectacle at once novel, pleasing and honorable to our country. The rifle company commanded by Captain John McGar- ry,1 composed of upwards of fifty youths of vigour and activity, well armed and handsomely equipped, and of respectable parentage. After attending divine service, performed in the most solemn and impressive manner by the Rev. J. Hutchinson and Rev. T. Smith, marched on their way to Meadville, amidst the reit- erated acclamations of several hundreds of fellow- citizens and relatives of every age and sex from all parts of the county below the Narrows. They were escorted by Captain Christy's troop of light dragoons, who were succeeded by a train of citizens more than a mile long, in double files, horse and foot. It was truly a proud day for Mifflin County, and the most sanguine expectations are entertained of the valour and patriotism of our young men.
"A second rifle company is now forming here and, from the ardour of the volunteers, it is supposed will be ready to take the field in a month. The subscrip- tion is expected to be filled this week. Go thou and do likewise."
In the same issue of the Gazette is found the following :
"Lewistown, September 9th .- Yesterday the Thompsontown Patriotic Blues were met in the Long Narrows by a number of the citizens of this place and conducted to this town, amidst the firing of can- non and the reiterated applause of the citizens. Every house was open to them. Each heart seemed to vie with the other in entertaining those youthful soldiers. The next morning they continued their march, accompanied by Captain Milliken's Troop of Horse, the officers of the militia in uniform, and a number of patriotic citizens. At the end of the town lane they halted, and Brigadier-General Doty de- livered a patriotic and animating address. On arriv- ing at Mrs. Cottle's and Mr. Thompson's, an elegant
MeGarry's company was in the First Brigade of the Eleventh Division (of the State). He had fifty-nine men.
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