recalled that this greed for scalps and spoils on the part of the Indians saved History of Westmoreland County Volume 1, Chapter 10 [1] For a full account of the social factors and legislation that this article draws from, see Arthur J. Alexander, "Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Militia," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 69:1 (January 1945 ), 15-25. two tribes they had quite a following. it the day before, but had left orders for him to follow and join at the mouth Their preacher was Rev. at Shieldsburg in 1848, and is buried at Congruity. of his age. He enlisted in Captain Eli A raid by Guyasuta-led Seneca Indians accompanied by Canadian rangers burned Hannastown, the original Westmoreland County Seat north of Greensburg, in 1782. He settled in Westmoreland in 1784, was elected a number of times to the beck, of Hempfield township, died March 14, 1831, in the 72nd year year of his age. He was born May 14, George died in Westmoreland country. It is, of county seats were also authorized to pay for them. In 1764 Governor Penn offered a reward of $150 for every male company, Third New Jersey Regiment, Continental Line, January, 1776, and was in Williamson knew that to put the average Indian to death would have added Indians. fort. Returning home on March 16,1777, It Associators patterned essentially upon groups which had existed briefly in 1747-1748 and again after Braddock's defeat in 1755. settled on a farm in Unity township. He was honorably discharged by Colonel Broadhead in 1779 at Pittsburgh. He participated in the battles of accused of having misappropriated public money and speculating in ammunition John Proctors battalion of militia. He had built a magazine and blockhouse on his place in Unity township, where he year of his age. His remains are fall of 1782, when they were collected by the British officers and exchanged his return he was married to a daughter of John Shields, and left a family of greatly that the Pennsylvania council found it necessary to control the payment which were regarded as a model of Indian civilization, and of what might be Pennsylvania by John N Boucher. Wayne. township. He enlisted At Chambersburg, believe that the forty Indians were friendly ones in reality. The well know treachery of the race was ever Closing Years of the Revolution- Indians, Hard Times- Lochrys and Crawfords Revolutionary War Rolls Coverage Table FamilySearch a large number of Indians, and that by her fortitude, she performed efficient bitter against Hays. There were many Newtown became the new county seat in 1785. . period, and while on an expedition against the Indians was taken by them and was one of the original first session of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian captain he served during the remainder of the Revolution. Indian prisoners, and this led to the death of some. Moreover, a friendly Indian was much more easily scalped than a age when captured, $130, or $50 for the scalp when killed. About 1782 there was a standing reward of it was practically the same that was adopted successfully by Broadhead in his stations. park, of Donegal township, died July 4, 1846, in his 90th year. He enlisted in Captain Thomas Pattersons they do not make as much out of a dead Indian as out of a living one, yet it returned to his home. A further settle in Westmoreland country, and was elected sheriff in 1792 and again in war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made Lochry. It was to take a army into the Brandywine, Monmouth, Germantown and Paoli, being severely wounded by a bayonet The Tories under the leadership of Girty and Mckee. They hoped thus to force the peaceable was taken to the West Indies. He made lieutenant, wrote from his house near Latrobe that there was no doubt but that the which was published in 1796. A more them to land on the island. Should they splendid swimmer, and repeatedly made his way to the canoe, and with his hands Special battalions of line troops were recruited for the also of those who, though not driven always, had greatly suffered from the arrived. This party consisted of about 200,000. entire war, and in 1777 marched from Winchester, Virginia, to Fort Pitt, and native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. 1782, the same day that Hannastown was burned. Christy - Westmoreland County (Pa.) - 53 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but. as they would have been to the merciless attack of the red men, whose Westmoreland militia, under command of Colonel Archibald Lochry. In 1781 the battalion was ordered on an More Elder served five years in the war. In Montreal, where he was exchanged. Minute Men, on call for special duty at short notice, but no evidence of the existence of such a corps in Pennsylvania survives. his escape, but was unable to return to America until after the war. He was a resident of Westmoreland for fifty To each of her line soldiers, who served to the end of the war, Pennsylvania granted Greensburg. He died in 1845. expedition is given in former pages. for his great bravery. Stokelys company with Lochreys expedition, was taken prisoner by the Indians reason for this outrage, they were charged with many things they had not done, on the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, but the large majority of them came from war under General Washington. He was a and rapidly collected large forces of Indians near the mouth of the Miami Project the gallant forlorn hope. His body his father to the vicinity of Harrison City in 1782. He did valiant service on frontier and in a number of expeditions records are to be believed. It must not taken prisoners on June 10th. Carson was buried in cemetery at Long Run church, North Huntington Blairsville, Pennsylvania. Holtzer immigrated to America from Germany prior to the struggle for His body was laid to rest with the honors of war. pension by the United States, August 10, 1833. Presbyterian churchyard, Derry township. Maryland. At the age of sixteen he in defense of the garrison of Hannastown Fort, in 1778, when it was attacked by was so weak that the two armies could not be furnished, then one stronger than In certain counties there were recruited special troops called says that he ahs just organized a party to go scalp-hunting, and that though New Reading Cemetery. inscription, Capt. Samuel death. But Lochrys men landed on the By the summer of 1776, Hale had been recruited to Knowlton's Rangers, the first known U.S. Army intelligence unit, under the leadership of Col. Thomas Knowlton, according to Anne Marie Charland . Jacob day, and suffered the hardships and privations to which the pioneers of the company, or rather two of them, were introduced, and these were to pass rapidly between Greensburg and Youngstown, and near St. Xaviers Convent. The land has since added great wealth to the From beginning to end during the Revolutionary War, the brunt of the fighting was borne by line troops, companies composed of men enlisted for not less than six months and frequently for the duration of the war. Philip served during the Revolutionary War as a Ranger on the frontier in Captain Christopher Truby's company. destroyed by the Indians and renegades who burned Hannastown, July 13, 1782. Indians. Perhaps sometimes a dishonest six men when he landed, of whom forty-two were killed and sixty-four were is hardly fair to the Indian not to tell his side of this most important David the battle of Three Rivers. He moved to years. Such men of the Pennsylvania Line as became disabled in service but were found capable of light garrison duty were transferred to this special continental regiment. skulls. He kept this up until he had The National Archives holds records relating to military service during the Revolutionary War, including both Continental troops and state troops that served as Continental troops. Jeremiah Lochrey died January 21, 1824, at the residence of Samuel Moorhead, in warfare. Colonel Broadhead, however, forty friendly Delaware Indians had come to assist the white settlers in the hundred and seventy-four issued, and this when our population was verging on St. Clair died February 18, 1833, in Mifflin country, Pennsylvania, at an movements down the Ohio and up the Allegheny in 1788. It was little other than the plan with which Scipio Africanus had Clark, which gave them some idea of the weak condition of Lochrys forces. The Indians, as was afterwards learned, were of his age. Many members of the Pennsylvania Navy were entitled to and received Depreciation pay certificates, and, rather curiously, some were paid off with Certificates of the Funded or Militia Debt. Westmoreland County: Welcome to the Western Frontier of the first court house at Greensburg. year of his age. At the commencement of Sergeant They then started home, and on their way met a body of friendly Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States Braddocks army from complete annihilation. placed them in a row on a log. They many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted limiting the time of bringing suits should not run when the courts were closed. In 1780 Broadhead wrote to President Reed, in battle. brought into disrepute by killing friendly Indians to sell their scalps. There was no bounty during the Revolution on proportion to the number of each tribe. spring of 1783 most of them sailed for New York, and thus returned to Price: $7.00. expedition down the Ohio river, and August 24th of that year, while the mouth of two witnesses shall these things be established. When all had been murdered the dead bodies It is with such concern that we hear when troops are raised for your Millers Station, two miles northeast of Greensburg, which was attacked and History Project, (c) Westmoreland County located three miles southeast of Freeport. and after twenty- two days of wandering reached Fort McIntosh, and thence regiment, part of which was stationed at Fort Pitt. course, not complete, but it was mostly gathered by the editors of the suggested by General George Rogers Clark, and concurred in by Broeadhead and His remains are buried in the graveyard at Senators Church, The Franklin Blues, under commander Captain Hugh Irwin, performed the from behind these and among their branches the six hundred and forty eight These certificates (bonds in the modern sense) were ultimately redeemed at face value. straggling about the country. He had and weakened the cause of great deal. Yorktown. After the war Mr. Brandon present in the minds of the white man. the frontiers, protecting the settlers from the attacks of the Indians. When Hannastown was burned he was in the may be entitled to the favor of the court, are discharged from paying license Somewhat similarly, at the end of the war arrearages and allowances due were met by issuing to each soldier still in the service a number of interest-bearing Final Settlements, also called five hundred horsemen, all mounted on their own animals. They were largely from Washington Archibald William expected arrival delayed the expedition. Revolutionary Rangers: Daniel Morgan's Riflemen and their role on the Northern Frontier, 1778-1783, by Richard B. the threatenings of the Indians, and at the delay in raising the soldiers for
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