Northumberland County PA Archives Military Records.....McBride, Robert February 23, 1769

Revwar Robert McBride, Lieutenant 9th Penna, regt.

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Robert McBride History, Sunbury, PA

Bell's History of Northumberland County, PA - THE COLONIAL 

PERIOD - Part III



Philadelphia Land Office, February 23, 1769

 There was an immediate and rapid influx of population to the 

territory thus opened to purchase and settlement... Although that part of 

Northumberland county south of Mahanoy mountain was included in the 

purchase of 1749, it was not settled to any extent before the Indian 

war, during which the few inhabitants were compelled to seek safety 

beyond the Kittatinny range.... Augusta township originally embraced that part 

of Northumberland county south of the North Branch of Susquehanna; the 

following is a list of taxable inhabitants in 1774:... Robert McBride



"Robert McBride," wrote John Weitzel to the Council of Safety, 

December 2, 1776, "goes down on purpose to apply for a lieutenancy in 

the service of the United States; I therefore take the liberty to 

recommend him as a man of spirit and resolution, and have not the least 

doubt but he will make a good officer. He served during the last war."* 

He was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Ninth Pennsylvania 

regiment, January 15, 1777. At the close of the war he returned to 

Sunbury.  The second jail of Northumberland county was built by him as a 

private enterprise.















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