Philadelphia County PA Archives News.....John MARKLAND, Candidate for County Commissioner, August 19, 1826
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The Democratic Press Philadelphia August 19, 1826
John Markland again offers himself as a candidate for the office of County 
Commissioner, and would be thankful to the freemen of the city and County of 
Philadelphia for their votes and interest in his favor at the general election 
next.  John Markland, a strenuous advocate for liberty, entered the service of 
his country (in his minority) in 1775 as a volunteer and actively and 
personally assested in hauling the guns from off the Battery at New York in 
defiance of the tremendous fire kept up by the British ship Asia of 64 guns, 
moored within musket shot and with springs on her cable.  He was in action on 
Long Island on the 22nd of August, 1776, and also in the great battle on the 
27th of the same month; again in action at Trenton latte end of this year.  In 
1777 he entered the regular service in the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment "for 
the War"--not for a campaign, but "for the War", long or short.  In June he 
was actively engaged fighting in the battle of Short Hills near Scotch Plains, 
N. J.   On the 11th of September was warmly engaged in the battle of 
Brandywine and about three weeks afterward, viz. on the 4th of October, 
distinguished himself at the great battle of Germantown, where his right arm 
was shattered by a ball (has not the full use of it this day) in this very 
county where he is now soliciting your votes for the office of County 
Commissioner.  With the army in 1778 and 1779, although for a part of the time 
his arm was in a sling.  In 1780 an officer in LaFayette's Select Corps of 
Light Infantry.  In 1781 he was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis 
and army at Yorktown, then proceeded with the Pennsylvania troops to the 
Southern department, where for many months he was actively engaged in 
harassing and skirmishing with the enemy under Kosciusko.  In 1783 honorably 
discharged at the Barracks in Philadelphia.  He never received either pension 
or sinecure, and the only office of profit conferred on him was that of County 
Commissioner, to which he was elected in 1823, and to which office he now 
respectfully asks to be re-elected.


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