Revolutionary War Roster: Capt Persifor Frazer's Co - 4th PA Battalion: Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Fred Kelso (Pennsylguy@aol.com) Copyright 2004. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* Extracted by Fred Kelso (Pennsylguy@aol.com) Note: Persifor Frazer lived in Thornbury Twp., which was part of Chester Co. during the RW, now part of Delaware Co. (see below) Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Vol. X, pp. 121-24 Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, Col. Anthony Wayne Roll of Captain Persifor Frazer’s Company From January 5, 1776 to November 26, 1776 Captains. Frazer, Persifor, commissioned January 5, 1776; promoted Major September 24, 1776 Potts, Joseph, appointed October 12, 1776, by Gen. Gates First Lieutenant. Bartholomew, Benjamin, commissioned January 6, 1776 Second Lieutenant. Seely, Isaac, commissioned January 8, 1776 Ensign. Griffith, Levi, commissioned January 8, 1776 Sergeants. Buckley, Edward, appointed January 10, 1776 Harris, Daniel, appointed January 22, 1776 Magee, William, appointed January 30, 1776; promoted Ensign Fifth Penn’a Verner, Edward, appointed February 2, 1776 Corporals. Davis, Joshua, appointed January 19, 1776; drowned August 1, 1776 Evan, James, appointed February 7, 1776 Long, James, appointed February 2, 1776 Taylor, John, appointed January 19, 1776 Wood, Abraham, appointed August 1, 1776 Drummers. Butler, Abraham, appointed January 21, 1776; discharged April 19, 1776 McCarter, John, appointed April 19, 1776; returned to the ranks July 1, 1776 McIntire, Robert, appointed July 1, 1776; died November 1, 1776 Muskall, _______, appointed November 1, 1776 Fifer. Kline, William, appointed January 22, 1776; resided in York county in 1818, aged sixty-three Privates. Adams, James, enlisted February 5, 1776; deserted July 10, 1776 Atkinson, George, enlisted January 17, 1776 Bartholomew, John, enlisted February 19, 1776; deserted July 10, 1776 Becket, Joseph, enlisted April 8, 1776 Berry, James, enlisted February 17, 1776 Blackwood, John, enlisted March 21, 1776 Boggs, Alexander, enlisted January 22, 1776 Boston, Philip, enlisted April 6, 1776 Bostol, Philip, enlisted January 31, 1776 Boyles, John, enlisted February 28, 1776 Burns, Thomas, enlisted January 30, 1776 Calhoun, Charles, enlisted April 29, 1776; died November 20, 1776 Cane, William, enlisted February 10, 1776 Carroll, Patrick, enlisted January 15, 1776 Cligner, John, enlisted March 17, 1776; deserted May 1, 1776 Cloward, Thomas, enlisted February 14, 1776; died February 15, 1776 Conner, Patrick, enlisted February 22, 1776 Connolly, Lawrence, enlisted February 1, 1776 Corry, John, enlisted February 20, 1776 Cruddicks, William, enlisted February 7, 1776; deserted March 12, 1776 Daily, James, enlisted February 27, 1776 Dobbins, John, enlisted April 3, 1776; deserted May 1, 1776 Ellis, Paul, enlisted January 23, 1776 Guin, Thomas, enlisted February 4, 1776 Harrington, John, enlisted January 16, 1776 Harris, David, enlisted January 22, 1776; discharged April 19, 1776 Harvey, John, enlisted February 15, 1776 Herbster, George, enlisted May 9, 1776; deserted July 10, 1776 Ingram, John, enlisted February 1, 1776; discharged May 1, 1776 Innis, James, enlisted February 7, 1776 Jones, Francis, enlisted January 21, 1776; discharged April 26, 1776 Joyce, Patrick, enlisted March 21, 1776 Junkin, Thomas, enlisted January 22, 1776; discharged April 19, 1776 Kelly, Christopher, enlisted January 21, 1776 Kelly, Timothy, enlisted January 25, 1776 Kennedy, Caleb, enlisted January 10, 1776; died January 18, 1776 King, Peter, enlisted January 16, 1776 Kerregan, Jacob, enlisted February 1, 1776; discharged April 1, 1776 Lynn, Patrick, enlisted February 24, 1776 Lyons, William, enlisted January 31, 1776 Martin, Patrick, enlisted January 25, 1776 Martin, Joshua, enlisted January 23, 1776; discharged May 1, 1776 McCarty, John, enlisted Febraury 8, 1776; promoted to drummer April 19, 1776 McCormick, Joseph, enlisted January 27, 1776 McCullough, John, enlisted February 5, 1776 McCully, Samuel, enlisted February 8, 1776 McDonald, James, enlisted January 16, 1776 McDonald, Peter, enlisted February 8, 1776 McGowan, Samuel, enlisted April 29, 1776 McGarrel, Charles, enlisted January 31, 1776 McGuire, William, enlisted January 25, 1776 McIntire, Robert, enlisted July 1, 1776 McLaughlin, Hugh, enlisted February 3, 1776 McLaughlin, John, enlisted March 22, 1776 Mercer, Robert, enlisted January 25, 1776 Miller, John, enlisted February 1, 1776 Morland, Zebulon, enlisted February 3, 1776 Murtland, John, enlisted February 1, 1776 Nelson, William, enlisted January 31, 1776 Norman, Joseph, enlisted March 21, 1776 Nuby, John, enlisted February 15, 1776 O’Brien, Peter, enlisted May 9, 1776; deserted July 10, 1776 O’Neal, William, enlisted January 16, 1776; discharged April 19, 1776 Owen, Thomas, enlisted January 31 1776 Parker, John, enlisted January 29, 1776 Pedrick, Samuel, enlisted April 6, 1776; deserted May 1, 1776 Powell, David, enlisted January 26, 1776 Ragg, Hezekiah, enlisted January 16, 1776 Ramsay, John, enlisted March 25, 1776 Rowls, William, enlisted January 30, 1776 Shields, Tobias, enlisted January 21, 1776 Smiley, Samuel, enlisted January 19, 1776; re-enlisted Fifth Penn’a Smith, Michael, enlisted January 18, 1776 Steward, John, enlisted March 19, 1776 Swiney, Daniel, enlisted April 1, 1776; deserted October 10, 1776 Tanner, John, enlisted January 19, 1776 Thomas, David, enlisted April 17, 1776 Toland, William, enlisted February 2, 1776; died September 26, 1776 Trego, William, enlisted January 29, 1776; confined and left with Gen. Washington’s Army Walker, John, enlisted July 1, 1776 Watson, John, enlisted February 4, 1776 Wilson, John, enlisted February 1, 1776; re-enlisted Fifth Penn’a Wolf, John, enlisted January 26, 1776 Wood, Abraham, enlisted April 6, 1776; promoted August 1, 1776 Wright, Alexander, enlisted January 16, 1776; deserted July 1, 1776 Young, James, enlisted April 13, 1776; deserted July 11, 1776 Young, John, enlisted April 22, 1776; deserted May 1, 1776 Notes on Persifor Frazer from History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania by Henry Graham Ashmead, LH Everts & Co., Phila, 1884: Chapter 52 (Thornbury Township), p. 708 “Persifor Frazer, born near Newtown Square in 1736, married Mary, the daughter of John Taylor (the younger), and some time after settled in Thornbury, on his wife's estate, and was interested in the iron-works there, but it is not probable that he was active in the conduct of the forge until after 1770, for in that year John Thomson had the works. At the close of 1774 he was prominent in Chester County in resisting the encroachments of the crown, and in January of the following year was a delegate from that county to the Provincial Convention. At this time he is believed to have had full control of the works. In the early part of 1776 he was elected captain of a company in the Fourth Battalion of Pennsylvania troops, under Col. Wayne, and was present on duty with his command until the fourth day after the battle of Brandywine; when while reconnoitering, he and Maj. Harper were captured by the enemy. While a prisoner of war he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Pennsylvania. Col. Frazer made his escape, joined his regiment, and took part in the battle of Monmouth. In the fall of 1778 he resigned. In 1781, 1782, and 1784 he was a member of the Assembly. In May, 1782, he was appointed brigadier-general of the militia of Pennsylvania, and in 1786 was appointed register and recorder for Chester County, which office he continued to hold - after the division of the old county and the erection of Delaware County - until April 2, 1792, when he died. Gen. Frazer was buried in the old graveyard at Middletown Presbyterian Church.”