Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: John HANNA

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Short Bio of John HANNA
[Submitted by Jimmie Barnes, June 1998, <jbarnes @xtalwind.net>]

Notes for JOHN HANNA:
From DAR Application of Suzanna Jones Schoedinger, Columbus,
Ohio, National Number 455651, Submitted September 20, 1957, 
approved December 5, 1957

John HANNA enlisted in Greenbrier Co., Virginia, in January, 1777, 
as a private in the Second Company, Capt. Samuel Lapsley, of Col.
Nathaniel Gist's Virginia Regiment.  In Febraury, 1777, Gist's
Regiment joined General George Washington's Army at Morristown,
New Jersey and was designated the Eighth Regiment of the
Continental Line. John HANNA was promoted to Argent and served
under Col. Girst with the Army of Gen. Washington almost three years,
through a winter at Valley Forge.  He was in the battle of Monmouth, 
1778, and in 1779 to the relief of Charlestown, South Carolina, 
where May 12, 1780, with all American troops, he was captured by 
the enemy.  John HANNA was confined on a British prison ship until 
the end of hostilities.
Supporting References:
DAR National Number 126200
Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Claim S 41 607
Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, by
J.H. Gwathmey, page 345
Official Roster of Rev. Soldiers Buried in Ohio, page 172
Records of the Revolutionary War, W.T.R. Saffell, page 285