YEARBOOK - 1902 - Society of Sons of the Revolution - In the State of West Virginia. This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm YEARBOOK - 1902 Society of Sons of the Revolution In the State of West Virginia. pages 55-82 ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. ADAMS, BENJAMIN. (1735-1817.) Private, Lexington Alarm Roll, Captain Eliphalet Spofford's Company, Col. Samuel Gerrish's Regi- ment, 1775; Captain in Col. Jedediah Huntington's Regiment, 1775-1776; Captain in Col. Johnson's Regiment, 1777. Pub. Rec. Mass., Vol. 13, p. 99; Vol. 17, pp. 19-21; Vol. 28, p. 100; Vol. 43, p. 315. Camden, Rolla. Camden, Richard Pindal. ANTIL, EDWARD, 3d. (1742-1787.) Engineer Gen. Montgomery's Staff, 1775; Lieutenant- Colonel appointed by Congress in 1776; served with American troops in Canada, 1776; under Gen. Sulli- van in 1777; taken prisoner and exchanged Nov. 10, 1780; served in Virginia in 1781, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis; was an original member of the Order of the Cincinnati. See Public Achives. Edwards, William Seymour. ARMISTEAD, WILLIAM. ( ) Ensign llth Virginia; served llth March, 1776, to—— Heitman Reg. Off. Cont. Army, page 65. McMechen, Birney Kennard. McMechen, William Bushfield. BAIRD, ABSALOM. (1755-1805.) Ensign in a Company attached to one of four Regi- ments anthorized by act of Congress in 1776; Sur- geon's Mate; served in Penn., N. J. and N. Y.; was present at the storming of Stony Point, July 15, 1779, and rendered medical attention to Gen. Anthony Wayne; on duty in Soldiers' hospital at Fishkill, N. Y. August 17, 1779; commissioned Surgeon March 20, 1780, in Col. Jeduthan Baldwin's Regiment of Ar- tillery and Artificers, and served until March 39, 1781. Heitman—Reg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 71. Pa. Archives, II. Ser., Vol. 2, pp. 257, 556, 559. N. Y. Col. Doc., Vol. X., p. 902. Baird, Reed M. Baird, George B. Caldwell, Alfred. Caldwell, Wm. G. BEALL, WILLIAM DENT. Officer of the "Maryland Line" during the Revolution, afterward an officer of the U. S. Army; was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Records of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati. Peterkin, William Gardner. BEECHER, BURR. (1757-1823.) Private, 1776, Fifth Company, Captain Jonas Pren- tice, Fifth Battalion, Col. Douglas, Connecticut State Brigade, Gen. Wadsworth; saw service in New York, battles of Long Island and White Plains; term ex- pired December 25, 1776. Rec. Conn. Men Rev. War, pub. 1889. Beach, Albert H. Beach, Austin. BOND, RICHARD. (1728-1819.) Member House of Delegates, State of Maryland, 1777, from Cecil County; was also engaged in the manu- facture of small arms for the use of the Revolutionary army. Jour. Md. Assem., 1777. Md. Hist. Soc. Haymond, Henry. BOWIE, ALLEN, JR. (1737-1803.) Raised a military company in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1776, of which he was commissioned Captain; afterwards, Colonel. He was afterwards reimbursed by the Colony for expenses he incurred in providing for the wants of his regiment. Served as Justice of Montgomery County, 1777. Archives of Maryland, page 424. Bowie, Edward Beatty. BRADY, JOSEPH. (1735-1787.) Captain 7th Company, First Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Associators, July 31, 1777; Captain 7th Company, First Battalion, Cumberland County Militia, May 34, 1778. Pa. Arch., II Ser., Vol. XIV., pp. 376, 405. Pa. Arch., II. Ser., Vol. XV., p. 595. Brockunier, Sam'l Hugh. BROADUS, JAMES. ( ) Private and Sergeant in the Virginia Line, March, 1776, to September, 1779; Ensign 2d Virginia, 25th September, 1779; retired 2d September, 1780. Pres- ent at the surrender of Cornwallis. Heitman—Reg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 100. Martin, Frederick T. BROWN, THOMAS. (1760-1844.) Private, Oct., 1780, Captain John Britt's Company, Virginia Militia, under Col. William. Lucas; joined Gen. Greene's army in South Carolina, and was at the battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781; pensioner under act of Congress in 1832. Comm. Pensions. Va. State Doc. Brown, Samuel B. BURKE, EDWARD DEVENISH. (1758-1808.) Private, Capt. Jacob Gerrish's Company, Col. Moses Little's Regiment, (17th Massachusetts) Gen. Greene'a Brigade. Enlisted April 24, 1775; was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill; served nine months. Pub. Rec. Mass., Vol. 15, p. 8; Vol. 56, p. 86; and Vol. 57, File 9. Burke, William Paxton. CARTER, JOHN CHAMPE. Captain of the 1st Reg. of Artillery, Continental Troops, commanded by Col. Charles Harrison, ap- pointed October 30, 1777; name appears on rolls from October, 1777, to March, 1780. See Records of War Department. Wallace, George Selden. CHANCELLOR, THOMAS. (1745- ) Private in the Virginia Line in the Revolutionary War; was paid £47 12s 2d on Aug. 15, 1783. Va. State Doc. Chancellor, Jr., Edmund Pendleton. Chancellor, William Nelson. CRAIK, JAMES. (1730-1814.) Surgeon, Col. Fry's Virginia Regiment, 1754; served in provisional army during French and Indian wars; was at Braddock's defeat; 1770, accompanied Wash- inton to the Ohio; in 1751 Ensign in Capt. Joshua Lewis' Company Virginia Troops. In 1777, Assistant Director General in Hospital Department of the Army. Received from Virginia 6,000 acres of land. Member of the Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland. Was Washington's physician, and attended him in his last Illness. "Sketch of the life and Character of Dr. James Craik," by Dr. J. M. Tanet, Transacting, Va. Med. Soc., 1879. App. Cyc. Am. Biog. Hayden's Virginia Genealogies. Hanson's "Old Kent," etc. Carter's Recol. of George Washington. Barton, Daniel Jenifer. CRANMER, JOHN. ( ) As is shown by a letter of Presley Neville's, dated Pittsburgh, Sept. 2, 1814, from which the following is an extract, and the original of which is in my pos- sion: "This is to certify that in the year 1775, or 1776, I was an officer in a company of Virginia troops, sta- tioned in Fort Pitt, where the town of Pittsburgh now stands; that in said company was a solider of the name of John Cranmer; That while there John Cran- mer was married to Nancy Christy, which circum- stance I perfectly recollect; that in the spring of 1777 I marched the company to join General Washington's army at Middlebrook, in New Jersey; that John Cranmer marched with me, leaving his wife in a house of her own. John Cranmer never returned to Pittsburgh; was probably killed at Brandywine or Germantown." Cranmer, Gibson Lamb. COX, ISAAC. (1724-1784.) Administered oath of allegiance and fidelity renounc- ing King George, of Great Britain, in 1777 to the peo- ple of Washington County, Pa. Captain and Colonel, Washington County Militia. Paymaster Penn. Rifle Reg., Col. Samuel Miles, September 18, 1776. Crum- rine's History Washington County, Pa., pages 129, 188 and 744. Colonial Records Vol. X., page 722. Penna. Archives 2nd series, 2nd Edition, pages 200 and 208. Historical Registry Officers of Continnental Army, page 137. Hupp, Frank Lemoyne. Cox, Frank Clay. COX, MICHAEL. (1759-1832.) Private of Rangers on the Frontiers 1778-1783; also private in Capt. Andrew Tourley's Co., Lieut. Elija Miles' Co., and Ensign David Rubel's Washington County Militia. Fifer in 8th Penna. Reg. Continental Line, Penna. Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. XXIII, pages 204, 205, 215 and 218. Penna. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. XIV, pages 739, 744 and 746. Penna. Line July 1, 1776, to November 3, 1783, Crumrine's History Washington County, Pa., page 83. Ellis' History Fayette County, Pa., page 64. Hupp, Frank LeMoyne. Cox, Frank Clay. Myers, Errett Campbell. CULBERTSON, SAMUEL. (1737- ) Col. Sixth Battalion Cumberland County Associators, July 31, 1777; service in and around Philadelphia; Col. Sixth Battalion Cumberland County Associators, May 14, 1778; Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Battalion Cumberland County Militia, May 10, 1780. Pa. Arch., II. Ser., Vol. XIII., pp. 408, 433, 458. Culbertson, John Dickey. DAWSON, WILLIAM. ( -1812.) Served as private in Second Maryland Infantry until discharged, Jan. 10th, 1780. In muster Bolls of Soldiers of the Maryland Troops in War of Revolution appears the following entry, to-wit: "William Dawson, Second Regiment, enlist- ed ————; Discharged 10th Jan. '80. Nesbitt, Charles Torrence. DENT, JOHN. (1755-1840.) Private, Captain David Scott's Company, 13th Vir- ginia Regiment, Col. John Gibson, and served April, 1777, to spring of 1778; Lieutenant in Capt. Jacob Sullivan's Company, 1778 to 1780; Captain of a Company of Cavalry, spring 1780 until November, 1780; Pensioner under act of Congress in 1832. Va. State Doc. Annan, William Dent Roberdeau. Dent, William Marmaduke. DUNHAM, JONATHAN. ( ) Private in the Middlesex County, New Jersey Militia, in the War of the Revolution. Rec. Adj. Gen. Off., N. J. Hughes, Henry Welden. EDWARDS, TIMOTHY. (1738-1813.) Member of the Committee of Safety for Western Massachusetts; Member of Continental Congress at Philadelphia; Member of Massachusetts Legislature, Commissary General of Massachusetts, and provi- sioned Gates' army. Pub. Rec. Mass. Pub. Rec. Stockbridge, Mass. Edwards, William Seymour. EVANS, JOHN. (1737-1834.) Colonel, under General Broadhead, in Revolutionary Army; Member of the Convention of 1776; Military Commandant of Monongalia County, Va.; Repre- sentative to General Assembly of Virginia. His. of Monongalia Co., p. 521. Hoffman, Daniel Clark. Hoffman, William Kemp. Annan, William Dent Roberdeau. GARDNER, CALEB. (1739-1806.) Successively, Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel of the First Rhode Island Regiment 1775-6. In 1778, at Newport, he piloted the French Squadron under Comte d'Estaing through the blockading fleet of Ad- miral Howe. Appleton's Ency. of Am. Biog. 11, page 597. "Lee, of Virginia," by Dr. Edw. J. Lee, 1895, page 478. In this volume is given a letter from the French Minister of Marine, dated November 3, 1781, con- veying to Caleb Gardner the thanks of the King of France for his services to the French Army and Squadron at Newport and before Yorktown. Peterkin, William Gardner. GOFF, JOB. (1760-1845.) Private, enlisted 1777, Rhode Island Regiment, Major Isaac Johnson; served for twelve months; his com- pany being commanded respectively by Captain Gal- vin and Captain Green; enlisted 1782 in a New York Regiment, Col. John Abbot; pensioner under act of Congress in 1832. Comm. of Pensions. Goff, Nathan. Goff, Charles J. GOFORTH, WILLIAM. (1731- ) Captain, N. Y. Militia, at "Three Rivers," Canada; April 26, 1775, signs call for Provisional Congress; June 28, 1775, Captain 1st Regiment New York Line; Feb. 28, 1776, Captain in Col. James Clinton's Regi- ment N. Y. Line; June 28, 1776, Major 5th Regiment N. Y. Line; Nov. 21, 1776, Major 2d Battalion N. Y. Line; Jan. 13, 1777, appointed Lieut.-Col. 4th Bat- talion—declined. Heitman—Reg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 193. N. Y. State Archives, pp. 23, 77, 116, 251, 252 and 257. Heiskel, Andrew Gano Burt. GRIER, THOMAS. ( ) Private, Captain George Crawford's Company, First Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Asso- ciators, "called out by an order from Council, July ye 28th, 1777," and in service that summer. Pa. Arch., II. Ser., Vol. XV., p. 567. Culbertson, John Dickey. HAINES, PETER. Peter Haines served as a private in Capt. Abraham Shepard's Company, of Rawling's Regiment of Con- tinental troops. His name appears on a pay abstract for the period from July 1, 1776, to Jan. 1, 1779, with! remarks: "Enlisted July 10, 1776;" "made prisoner Nov. 16, 1776;" "date how long pay is charged, 29 months 20 days." This Company was raised by Capt. Hugh Stevenson and Henry Bedinger as ensign, and Sam'1 Findley as 2nd Lieut. Capt. Hugh Stevenson marched the Company from Morgan's Grove, near Charles Town, W. Va., July 17th, 1775. It served as an independent Company for one year and became part of Continental troops July 10th, 1776, at Bergin, N. J. See pay abstracts on file in Record and Pension Office at Washington, D. C. Avis, Braxton Davenport, Jr. HALSTED, JOHN. (1729-1813.) A "Canadian Refugee," living in Quebec at the out- break of the Revolution, left his estate and joined the American army under Montgomery and Arnold in 1775; served as a guide in the expedition against Que- bec; Commissary for the army before Quebec, Feb. 17, 1776; private, First Battalion, Second Establisb- ment, New Jersey Continental Line; served during the war; was granted 333 acres of land by the State of New York, Jan. 22, 1790, and 640 acres of land in Ohio by Act of Congress, Feb. 18, 1801, to reim- burse him for his losses in Canada. U. S. Statutes at large, Vol. II., p. 100. Records Adj. Gen'l Office, N. J. Hist. Reg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 206. Brockunier, Samuel Hugh. HANSON, SAMUEL. Commissioned by Maryland Convention as Lieutenant Colonel in the "Upper Battalion of Charles County." Brother of John Hanson, President of the Continental Congress. Father of Thomas Hanson, who was Cap- tain in the 3rd Maryland Battalion of the "Flying Camp." "A Biographical Encyclopaedia of Maryland and District of Columbia." History of Old Kent." Peterkin, William Gardner. HART, JOHN. (1711-1779.) Member of the Colonial Assembly of New Jersey, 1761 to 1772; member of the Provisional Congress in 1774, which met at New Brunswick, N. J., and in 1776 de- posed Governor Franklin, the Royal Governor, and established a new State Government; member of the Committee of Safety; member of the Continental Congress from New Jersey; voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence; Speaker of the Legisla- ture of New Jersey from July, 1776, until his death in 1779. The State of New Jersey erected a monu- ment to his memory in the church yard at Hopewell, which ground he had presented to the Baptists. "Lives of the Signers" Lossing and Sanderson. Hart, Charles Matthew. Hart, John Battelle. Batcher, Bernhard Lee. HENDERSON, JOHN. (1741-1787.) Was first a private in the troops of his brother-in-law, Gen. Andrew Lewis, in the battle of Point Plesant, Oct. 10th, 1774. Corporal in Company No. 12, Capt. John Gregory, in Col. Daniel Morgan's llth and 15th Virginia Regiments. Hardesty's Geographical and Historical Encyclo- paedia. Saffell's Revolutionary Records, pages 267 and 256. Chancellor, Edmund Pendleton, Jr. HERRICK, NATHANIEL. (1736-1807.) First Lieutenant in Captain John Davis' Company of Massachusetts Minute men, Colonel Fry's regiment, and marched with them on first alarm of April 17th, 1775, the day of the battle of Lexington. Is reported in the "Lexington Alarm Roll" of Captain Davis' Com- pany, as having enlisted in the Minute Men in Febru- ary 14th, 1775. Served with his regiment during op- erations about Boston. Appear as Lieutenants on returns dated "Camp at Cambridge" May 17th, 1775, and October 5th, 1775. Massachusetts Revolutionary War Archives in Of- fice of Secretary of Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, Vol. 12, page 39; Vol. 56, page 5; Vol. 146, page 67. Kingsley, Edwin B. HILL, JAMES. (1758-1831.) Enlisted from Va. as private for three years' service Jan. 1777, Capt. Thos. Ewell's Company, Col. Geo. Geo. Gibson's Regiment; was engaged in battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, and attack on Stony Point, July 15, 1779; re-enlisted as Corporal of Infantry Va. State Line; was in Va. Campaign of 1781; received £17 19s 1d balance of pay from State of Va, April 16, 1784; pensioner under act of Congress in 1818. Burdette, Frank Lee. HITCHCOCK, SAMUEL. (1757-1841.) Private in Capt. Joel Clark's Co., 8th Reg., Col. Jedi- diah Huntington, Conn. Discharged December 8th same year. Private in Capt. Samuel Maddock's Co. Enlisted May 9, 1777, for three years. Discharged May 9, 1780. Private in Capt. Gad Stanley's Co. June 24, 1776. In Col. Fisher Galfs Sec. Bat. raised to re- inforce Washington at New York. Served at the Brooklyn front in the battle of Long Island, August 27th in the retreat to New York, August 29th and 30th in retreat from New York City, September 15th with main army at White Plains. Time expired De- cember 25, 1776. Pensioner of Connecticut Connecticut men in the Revolution, pages 86, 235, 396, 652, 679. Merriman, John Donlon. HAYMOND, WILLIAM. (1740-1821.) Captain Monongalia County Militia, commissioned by Gov. Patrick Henry, March 13, 1776; commis- sioned Major of Militia by Gov. Benjamin Harrison, Nov. 12, 1781; in command of Pickett's Fort on the Monongahela river in 1777, with a detachment at Scott's Mills, and served from 1776 nntil the close of the war; selected May, 1777, as one of the officials to administer an oath to the male inhabitants of Monon- galia County, over the age of 16, renouncing alle- giance to King George III., and swearing allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia; Sheriff of Mononga- lia County in 1783. Va. State Doc. Watson, Sylvanus L. Watson, George Thomas. Watson, James Otis, Jr. Watson, Clarence W. Watson, Arthur Thurman. Watson, James Fay. Lewis, William Hay. Fleming, George Watson. Haymond, William O. Arnett, Thomaa Watson. Haymond, Henry. HICKMAN, SOTHA. (1749-1834.) Private, Virginia Troops, Revolutionary War; part of time in Capt. William Lowther's Company. Comm. of Pensions. Hickman, Charles Lewis. HOLLIDAY, JAMES. (1754-1834.) Private, Captain Abraham Smith's Company of the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, Col. William Irvine; en- listed Feb. 3, 1776. Pennsylvania in the Revolution, Vol. 1, Page 172. Hunter, Paul Stuart. HUPP, JOHN. (1747-1782.) Was a private in Capt. Eleazear Williamson's Co. of Rangers on the Frontiers 1778-1782. Penna. Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. XXIII, Page 310. Hupp, Frank LeMoyne. HUSTON, JOSEPH. ( -1830.) Private, Captain John Biggs' Company, and served with him on Col. Crawford's expedition to Sandusky in 1782, as is shown by the records in the State Li- brary of Pennsylvania. Pa. Archives. Moreland, Joseph. Hunter, Paul Stuart. IRISH, NATHANIEL. (1720-1790.) Commissioned Feb. 7th, 1777, Captain in the Corps of Artillery Artificers; was in service April, 1782 and remained until 1783, when he was retired. Penna. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. XI.., pp. 250, 254. His name appears on the roll of the original mem- bers of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. Second volume of Penna. Archives, app. Richards, Howard Campbell. JENIFER, JR., DR. DANIEL. (1756-1809.) Surgeon, Continental Line, August 26, 1776; served until 1782; rank recorded as "Surgeon to the Gen- eral Hospital." Was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland. Hanson's "Old Kent." Hayden's Virginia Genealogies. Barton, Daniel Jenifer. LAMB, RICHARD. (1736-1786.) Quartermaster General; in Jefferson's complete works, published by order of Congress, and edited by Henry A. Washington, Vol. 1, pp. 264-269, Gov. Jeffer- son, in letters to Gen. Gates, refers to him; he collect- ed the grain tax for the Government for the support of the Continental army. Robertson, Zachary F. LEE, RICHARD HENRY. (1732-1794.) Member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of American Independence. Peterkin, William Gardner. LILLARD, THOMAS. (1742-1825.) Sergeant, Captain Philip Slaughter's Company, Vir- ginia Infantry, Continental Line. Was in the Amer- ican army at the siege of Yorktown, and surrender of Lord Cornwallis in 1781. Served till close of war. Virginia State Doc. No. 44, 1834. Virginia Historical Society, and other papers. Burdette, Frank Lee. MARTIN, ABSALOM. ( ) Paymaster 4th Regiment New Jersey Infantry, Nov. 28, 1776; Regimental Paymaster from Feb. 1, 1779, to June, 1783; Captain, Jan. 6, 1783, and served to the end of the war. Raum's Hist. N. J., p. 113. Martin, Luther Philip. MARTIN, CHARLES. ( ) Charles Martin, a Minute Man, was. in command of a Fort on Crooked Run, Monongalia County, W. Va., not far from Morgantown, from 1773 to 1783. This fort was built as a defense for the people of Monon- galia County against the Indians, but when the Declarations of Independence was declared, was used as a defense against both British and Indians, and was attacked June, 1779, and ten whites killed and captured. Charles Martin was granted 400 acres of land in Monongalia County, 1769. References—Wiley's History Monongalia County, pages 63, 696, 38. Rhodes, Oliver Thompson. Oglebay, Franklin Martin. MARTIN, EPHRAIM. ( ) Colonel of a New Jersey Regiment of Militia June 14, 1776; wounded in Battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776; commissioned Colonel Nov. 28, 1776, 4th Regi- ment N. J., Continental Army, but did not join his regiment. Heitman—Reg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 285. Martin, Luther Philip. MEIGS, RETURN JONATHAN. (1740-1823.) Recruited a company at the beginning of the war and marched to Cambridge; Major of the Continental Line, accompanying Arnold to Quebec, and with Montgomery in the attack on the Citadel; captured December 31, 1775; exchanged in 1776; Colonel of the Sixth Connecticut, 1776; received a vote of thanks and was presented with a sword by the Conti- nental Congress for his brilliant services at Sag Har- bor, May 22, 1777; with Gen. Wayne at the capture of Stony Point, July 15, 1779; served until the close of the war. Rec. Conn. Men Rev. War. Gittings, John George Duncan, George Lee. MILLER, PETER. (1737-1794.) Private, Captain Andrew Burkhart's Company, 3d Battalion of Philadelphia Associators, Col. J. H. Mor- gan; active service in 1777 and 1778. Pa. Archives. DuBois, Joseph D. Norton, Samuel P. Wilson, Henry Tyson. Updegraff, Alexander. Norton, George Worthington. MILLER, PETER. (1759-1838.) Served as private for five months (1776) in Capt. Blauvett's Company, Col. Drake's Regiment, from New Jersey; served as private for three or fonr months in Capt. Parson's Company from New Jer- sey; served as a private for three or four months in the summer of 1777, Captain Marion's Company, from New Jersey; engaged in the Battle of White Plains. Residence at time of enlistment, Tippon, N. J. Residence at time of application for pension, Monongalia Co. Va. Nichols, Francis Edward. Hartley, Harry John. Hartley, Edwin Forrest. Jackson, Samuel Newton. Hartley, Joseph Milton. MILLER, CHRISTIAN. (1744-1836.) Sergeant in the Virginia Troops under Captain Jacob Rinker, from August, 1780, to May, 1781. In Septem- ber, 1832, received a pension. Comm. of Pensions. Chancellor, Jr., Edmund Pendleton. MIX, ELISHA. (1761-1818.) Enlisted as private, May 26, 1777, Capt. Eli Catlin's Company, Colonel Philip Burr Bradley, 5th Regi- ment Conn. Line. Rendezvous, Danbury; camp at Peekskill. Sept., '77, ordered to Penn. with McDon- gal's Brigade. Battle of Germantown, October 4th, '77. Assigned to Huntington's Brigade. Wintered at Valley Forge, '77-'78; June 28, '78, at Battle of Monmouth. Wintered at Reading '78-'79. In opera- tions of '78, with Heath's wing, east side of Hudson. Wintered at Morristown Heights '79-'80; following summer in Conn. Division, Main Army, both sides of the Hudson. Wintered '80-'81 opposite West Point. Page 200, Conn. Men in the Revolution. Page 234, Capt. Titus Watson's Co., Seventh Reg't; enlisted Aug. 14, '77, for the war; corporal, July 1, 1777. Page 541, Capt. Ozier Bissell's Co., Col. Eno's Regi- ment, on the Hudson. Page 643, Conn. Pension Act of 1818. Elisha Mix, Corporal. Resided in New York. Beach, Austin. MORGAN, ZACKQUILL. (1758- ) He enlisted from Monongalia County, Virginia, and served seven months and twenty-three days a a pri- vate under Col. John Evans and Capt. James Brin- ton; pensioner under act of Congress in 1832. Comm. of Pensions. Morgan, Henry M. MORGAN, ZEDEKIAH. ( ) Served from Connecticut in the War of the Revolution as conductor, 1779-1781. Rec. Conn. Men Rev. War, p. 628. Stalnaker, Randolph. Baker, Stark L. MORRIS, ZADOCK. (1759-1845.) Enlisted as a private in Captain Thomaa Holland's Company, Col. David Hall's Regiment, Delaware, in 1776, and served during the war. Engaged in battle of Camden. Wells, Charles Evans. MUNROE, ROBERT. (1712-1775.) Ensign, Capt. John Parker's Company of Minute Men, and was killed by the fire of the British troops at the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. Hudson's Hist. Lexington, 1868. Roster Col. Troops, p. 181. Roster Capt. Parker's Co., p. 379. Nicoll, Edward Larkin. McCOLLUM, DANIEL. (1754-1842.) Ensign 2d Company, 1st Battalion, York County, Pennsylvania Associators; his battalion was incorpor- ated with the force known as the "Flying Camp," in the year 1776; served in the battle of Long Island, and was present at the surrender of Fort Washing- ton, in November following. Pa. Arch. Hagans, J. Marshall. McGrew, James Heermans. Clark, George Ramsey. McGrew, William Clark. MCKINLEY, JOHN. ( -1782.) John McKinley entered United States service in 1776, as Sergeant or soldier. Was commissioned a Lieu- tenant in the 13th Virginia Regiment in December, 1776, and was afterwards made Captain of a Company in the same Regiment. He was killed by the Indians in Crawford's expedition of June, 1782. Heitman's, page 279. McKinley, Johnson Camden. Part of Congressional Record for House of Repre- sentatives, 27th Congress, 2d Session, Ang. 20th, 1842. Also, Minutes of meeting of Clan MacKinley, held in Detroit, Mich., Sept. 10th, 1894. NICHOLSON, JAMES. (1737-1804.) Participated in the capture of Havana in 1762; in 1775, appointed Captain of the Defense in the Amer- ican Navy; in 1776 commanded the Virginia, carry- in 26 guns; 1777, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, succeeding Erek Hopkins, remaining till close of the war. Cooper's Naval History, p. 226-9. Chambers' Encyclopedia. Brown, Cassins Clay. NORRIS, JOHN. (1760-1836.) Private, Capt. James Scott's Company, Virginia Mili- tia; served three months; enlisted February, 1777; private, Captain Turner Moorehead's Company, Vir- ginia Militia; served two months; enlisted March, 1781; Sergeant, Captain Thomas Helm's Company, Virginia Militia, served two months; enlisted Septem- ber, 1781; served at the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis; pen- sioner under act of Congress in 1832. Comm. Pensions. Bassel, John. PAULL, JAMES. (1760-1841.) Guarded stores at Brownsville, Pa., 1778; First Lieu- tenant under Capt. Whaley and Col. Crocket; com- missioned by Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Vir- ginia; private in Crawford's Campaign of 1782; pen- sioner under act of Congress, 1832. Comm. Pensions. Pa. Archives. Paull, Archibald W. Paull, Joseph F. Paull, Alfred. Paull, Jr., Archibald Woods. PETERSON, DANIEL. ( ) Member of the Regimental Staff of the New Hamp- shire Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Stick- ney, in Gen. John Stark's Brigade, July, 1777. Army Roll N. H., Fol. 18, Vol. I, "D." Peterson, William F. Peterson, B. Walker. PEASE, ABIEL. ( ) First Lieutenant, Eighth Connecticut, July 6 to Dec. 16, 1775; subsequently served at Captain and Major Connecticut Militia. Heitman's Register of the Officers of the Continen- tal Army, page 322. Dwight, Edward Neill. PUTNAM, ISRAEL. (1718-1790.) Major-General; served in the Continental Army from Bunker Hill until 1779, when he was stricken by paralysis and retired from active field service, served in the French-Indian War, and was Lieutenant-Col- onel at the capture of Montreal in 1760, and at the capture of Havana, Cuba, in 1762. Archer, Richard Mather. REED, WILLIAM. ( -1830.) Ensign of a company of foot in the Fourth Battalion of Militia, in the County of York, in the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania. Reed, Robert Jeffery. ROBERDEAU, DANIEL. (1727-1795.) Brigadier General, Penn. Militia, 4 July, 1776, to March, 1777. Member Continental Congress 1777-8-9. Signer of Articles of Confederation between the Col- onies. Pa. Archives. Hietman's His. Register Officers of Continental Army. Americans of Royal Descent. Annan, William Dent Roberdeau. RUFFIN, FRANCIS. ( ) Francis Ruffin was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of Safety from Mecklenbery County, Vir- ginia, and was chosen May 8th, 1775. William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. V., page 245, taken from the Virginia Gazette. Dixon & Hunter, June 3rd, 1775. Also History of the Ruffin family in The Critic, Vol. V., No. 6, Virginia State Library, at Richmond. Also, Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, Vol. 11, page 526. Butler, Arthur Bates. SMITH, JAMES. ( -1837.) Private, Delaware Line, Revolutionary Army. Pen- sioned under act of Congress in 1818. Comm. Pensions. Stalnaker, Randolph. STREIGHT, REV. CHRISTIAN. (1749-1812.) Chaplain, 8th Virginia Regiment, (Col. Muhlenbnrg) 1st of August, 1776, to July, 1777. Heitman's Historical Register, Officers of the Con- tinental Army, 1775-1783, page 387. Also see Ker- cheval's History of the Valley. Avis, Samuel Brashear. Walker, Philip George. SULLIVAN, PATRICK. (1751-1841.) Private, Captain Michael Doudel's Company, Col. William Thompson's Battalion, Pennsylvania Rifle- men; served with Gen. Daniel Morgan's Corps; en- listed June 24, 1775, and re-enlisted June 24, 1777; served until close of war. Pa. Archives. McKinney, Owen S. McKinney, Odel Payne. TALLMAN, JAMES. (1745-1810.) Private soldier from Feb., 1777, to close of war; member of Company 7, llth Regiment, Virginia Con- tinental Line; Company commanded by Capt. Peter Bryn Bruen, the Regiment commanded by the famous Col. Daniel Morgan, of rifle renown, until May 15th, 1778; afterward by Col. Abram Buford. It was in- corporated in Woodford's Brigade, and participated in all of Washington's operations in the Jerseys and about Philadelphia, subsequent to Feb., 1777; was sent south early in 1780, taking part in the Carolina campaigns under Greene; was present at Yorktown. Original Bounty Land Warrant No. 8243, issued by General Land Office, July 27, 1819, to soldiers who served to end of war. Saffel's Rec. Rev. War, p. 263. Rec. War Dep't. Topping, John A. Tallman, Wilbur H. Tallman, Albert P. THAYER, ABEL. (1741-1805.) Lieutenant Lexington Alarm Roll; Captain, Col. John Fellows' Massachusetts Regiment; commissioned June 7, 1775. Pub. Rec. Mass., Vol. 13, p. 140; Vol. 16, p. 51; Vol. 56, p. 47; Vol. 146, p. 147. Thayer, Abel H. THOMAS, SAMUEL, JR. (1748-1839.) Captain, 2d Regiment, Rhode Island Militia, March, 1776—May, 1777; served also as volunteer in expedi- tion to Tiverton; also as private in Captain Richard Updike's Rhode Island Artillery Co.; assisted in cap- ture of British vessel "Cyrus." Year Book New York Soc. Sons of the Rev., 1896, p. 477. Thomas, Nathaniel Seymour. TODD, JOHN. (1756-1829.) Was a Second Lieutenant in Capt. James Anderson's Co., 1st Battalion Bedford County Militia, May 23, 1778. Pa. Archives. Hupp, Frank LeMoyne. WAGGENER, ANDREW. (1743-1813.) Captain, 12th Virginia, June 20, 1776; transferred to 8th Virginia, Sept. 14, 1778; Major, Dec. 15, 1778; taken prisoner at Charleston, S. C., May 12, 1780; exchanged, Nov., 1780; retired, Feb. 12, 1781. Hist. Reg. Off. Cont. Army, 1775-1783, Heitman, page 413. "Life of Washington," Marshall. Doddridge, John Sehon. WHITE, PAUL. (1744-1796.) Paul White served as private in Captain Isaac Mar- tin's Company, Col. Ezra Wood's Regiment, Major- General Spencer's Brigade, for service in Rhode Isl- and. He enlisted April 17, 1777, and was discharged May 7, 1777. Roll sworn to at Boston. Paul White served in the Continental Army in Capt. Samuel Read's Company; enlisted for town of Uxbridge, March 6, 1778, and discharged Nov. 5, 1778. By re- solve of Feb. 3, 1778. Paul White also served in Captain Bezalel Tatt's Company, Col. Nathan Tyler's Regiment, in Rhode Island, on the alarm of July 27, 1780. The above facts are duly attested in certificate is- sued by Wm. M. Olin, Secretary of State of Massachu- setts, dated Jan. 8, 1900. White, Albert Blakeslee. WHITE, ROBERT. (1759-1831.) Private, Capt. Hugh Stevenson's Company, Virginia Militia; marched to Boston, June 20, 1775, and join- ed Washington; made an ensign the following sum- mer; Lieutenant under Major Wm. Drake, of Vir- ginia, at battle of Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777; wound- ed and taken prisoner at Short Hill, N. J., June, 1778; exchanged in fall of 1778; commissioned Cap- tain of Cavalry in 1779; pensioned by act of Con- gress May 15, 1828, and received land warrant for services in the Revolution. Va. State Papers and Other Papers, Vol. 1, p. 543. Sketches of Virginia—Foote—p. 469. Hist. Lower Shenandoah—Norris—p. 566. Army and Navy Reg. 1776-1887—Hamersly, p. 29. White, John Baker. White, Robert. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM. (1731-1811.) Member of the Committee of Correspondence and Safety in Connecticut; member of Congress in 1776, and while a member of that body signed the Declara- tion of Independence; Speaker of the Connecticut Assembly in 1775; member of Congress in 1783-84; member of the Connecticut Convention that adopted the National Constitution. "Lives of the Signers," Lossing and Sanderson. Archer, Richard Mather. Archer, Robert Lemley. WILLIAMS, NATHAN. ( -1850.) Sergeant—At the age of 19 was a Sergeant in a Com- pany of Connecticut Volunteers and served in the Revolution. Rec. Conn. Men Rev. War. Archer, Richard Mather. WOODS, ARCHIBALD. (1764-1846.) Sergeant, Capt. John Cartwell's Company, Virginia Riflemen, attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Otho H. Williams, in North Carolina, under General Nathaniel Greene; enlisted in 1781; served on the Haw and Alamee rivers; marched with the troops to Virginia, serving there under Gen. Anthony Wayne, in the army commanded by La Favette; participated in the action of Jamestown Ford. July 6, 1781. Va. State Doc. Paull, Archibald W. Paull, Alfred. Paull, Joseph F. Woods, Joseph J. Paull, Jr., Archibald Woods. ZANE, JONATHAN. (1749-1824.) Was a soldier and guide in Gen. Daniel Broadhead's expedition up the Allegheny River against the Munsie and Seneca Indians in 1779, in which campaign he was wounded; guide in the campaign of Col. Win. Crawford to Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1782; partici- pated in the defense of Fort Henry (Wheeling), Sep- tember 1, 1777, and Sept. 11, 1782. Washington-Irvine Cor., p. 122, by C. W. Butter- field. Border Warfare—Withers. Crawford's expedition against Sandusky. Hildreth, Eugenius A. ZANE, EBENEZER. (1747-1812.) Colonel, Virginia Militia; participated in the defense of Fort Henry, (Wheeling), Sept. 1, 1777, against a large force of Indians and others, which was the first attempt of the British and their savage allies against the Western Frontier after the Revolutionary War be- gan; in command at Fort Henry, (Wheeling), Sept. 11, 1782, when a company of British Regulars under Capt. Pratt, and a large body of Indians, laid siege to the fort; member of the Virginia Convention of 1788 that adopted the Constitution of the United States; made the first settlement at Wheeling in 1769. Washington-Irvine Corr., pp. 397, 398. Border Warfare—Withers—pp. 160-165, 262-266. Brockunier, C. W. Lamb, Gibson. Brockunier, Wilbur C. Zane, Platoff. Brockunier, Sam'l Hugh Martin, Luther Philip.