AREA HISTORY:  Military, Lower Chanceford Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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MILITARY – Page 746

The Lower Chanceford Volunteers, a company of 100 uniformed men, were commanded by 
Capt. James Cameron.  They were called out in 1844, at the time of the Philadelphia 
riots, but after going as far as Wrightsville on the way, the order was 
countermanded, as their services were not needed.  John McPherson and Stephen 
McKinley commanded militia companies.  The militia of Lower Chanceford paraded on 
the farm of James Cross, and sometimes at the famous muster grounds of Dr. McDonald, 
in Fawn Township.  Capt. Thompson commanded a volunteer rifle company before the 
war.  There was another volunteer company in the township.  It has seventy-seven 
members.  John Stewart, a Revolutionary soldier of Lower Chanceford, died in 1820.  
He was the grandfather of Judge Stewart, late of Mansfield, Ohio.  John McKinley, of 
Lower Chanceford, was a wagon master during the Revolution.  This township during 
the civil war sent a great many soldiers “to the front.”  John Maughlin, who died a 
few years ago aged ninety-three, was one of the “old defenders” in the war of 1812.