Their party suffered only slight wounds., After the Battle of Thompson Island, Brodheads troops proceeded to Conewago, where they found abandoned Seneca towns.
PDF On this 13th day of May 1833 personally appeared Anthony D. Trout who Eckenrode, H. J. Virginia soldiers of the American Revolution. Millers March, from the number of men who were on Commands, at the Small pox Hospital, & Employed as Artificers, we coud hardly mount a Serjts Guard.
13th Virginia Regiment (Revolutionary War) FamilySearch He does not know in what month. with another letter from Russell on the same subject, but it postponed consideration of the Board of Wars report on the matter (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds.
I believe the said expedition was ordered out by the Governor [Lord Dunmore] of Virginia and I also believe it had his sanction. 1.
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13th Virginia Regiment - Brandywine Soldiers He served more than six months or perhaps seven. 1862. In September 1778 Gibson attended a conference at which the first U.S. treaty of alliance was signed, with the Delaware Indians. Heard him the said Dixon relate whilst engaged as a Spy that a woman By the name of Butler kiled in Virginia and other circumstances in relation to his services as a spy heard him the said Dixon relate that he was urged by Col. Garham of Greenbrier Cty to watch his family till he could return from Court, and that he the said Dixon did watch accordingly and that said Dixon discovered there were danger from Indians, and warned the family of Col Graham who did not heed his the said Dixons warning he having previous to their being kild they the family aforesd refused to go to the fort that was close by & was murdered by the Indians the next morning.. 4.White Eyes, or Koquetakeghton (c.17301778), a leader of the Turkey clan of Delaware Indians, was elected principal chief of the tribe in 1776. February 26. Likewise, the Indians were somewhat divided in their loyalties, with the Delawares and Cherokee loosely hanging onto the Americans, and the Shawnee, and others, openly and actively engaging in warfare against the American settlers. I shoud have sent the whole of them But at the time of Capt.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES AND DOCUMENTS - Pennsylvania State University Henry Baughman to protect a company of movers to Kentucky. In the James Christy application below, Christy mentions serving under Capt. Left Valley Forge in May 1778 for Fort Pitt. the United States, and research and development projects to bring historical records to the Iowans transformed the fertile prairies of the Midwest resources, involvement in the Civil War, legacy in film, into the most productive farmland in the world. During the Revolutionary War, . The first commander of the Twenty-first was E. L. Dudley, of Lexington, who died February 20, 1862. Was two years & nine months in actual service I substituted as before stated for nine months. GW ordered Gibson to take command of his former regiment, the 13th Virginia, in the spring of 1778 (see GW to William Russell, Sr., 28 May 1778), and before he retired from the army in January 1783 Gibson also commanded the 9th and 7th Virginia regiments. [23 March 1820].
Twenty Years Around the WorldA Project Gutenberg eBook He then mentions serving under Captain Thomas Wright. On a second tour (1778) this said declarant was drafted from the Milletia of said County of Greenbrier in Virginia (at the station of Burnsides, in the Co of Greenbrier in the State of Virginia with his Brother Peter Dixon -detail from his statement for his brothers application) to go to Kentucky, (and there join General [George Rogers] Clark on a expedition to the Scioto now in the State of Ohio. This ended in McIntosh eventually being relieved of command, being replaced by Col. Brodhead. That he enlisted for Eighteen months that he served out his time and was discharged at Buckades (Bouquets, I believe) Old fort on the Muskingham River . However, it ties in nicely with the Griffin narrative, in that they both describe being mustered to transport supplies for James Byrnside, almost certainly via packhorse, to the Fort Pitt region. The National Historical Publications and I was living on Wolf Creek when I was called into service and remained there until about the year 1790 when I moved to where I now live. I am wondering, however, about the timing of Mr. In early March of 1779, George Washington wrote to Daniel Brodhead and placed him in command of Fort Pitt: From my opinion of your abilities, your former acquaintance with the back Country, and the knowledge you must have acquired upon this last tour of duty, I have appointed you to command in preference to a stranger, who would not have time to gain the necessary information between that of his assuming the command and the commencement of operations.. James O'Hara's Company of Regulars, was a messenger for General Irvine; he later served as a Captain in the Allegheny County Militia and was a noted scout and Indian fighter with Samuel Brady[1].
In a letter to Washington, Brodhead described the incident: Ten miles this side of Conewago, Lieut.
10TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT - Valley Forge Muster Roll George Washington tried to walk a tight-rope between the positions of both Virginia and Pennsylvania with respect to Fort Pitt. I remained thus forted and thus employed during the whole war we kept no guard at the Fort in the Winter Spring and fall we employed ourselves in hunting wild game. Joseph Marechal's Co. Capt. That the nature of his services as an Indian Spy was to leave Cooks Fort on Indian Creek now in the County of Monroe [near Red Sulphur Springs] and be out from three to four days each week and then return when others would go, the same length of time, that their practice was for two to go together & when they returned an other two would start out, that the Companion who was mostly with him was a man by the name of James Ellis that he does not know what has become of him but supposes he is dead as he was considerably older than himself. So just to clarify, there were two separate militia musters at Byrnsides Fort, for the Greenbrier Militia to march for Kentucky in order to serve in expeditions under George Rogers Clark: one in 1778, and one in 1781. We were stationed at Col Logans until General Clark returned to Kentucky from the Old Chilecothe [sic: Chillicothe] Indian Towns. It was originally Greenbrier County, and then Monroe County, and finally Summers County. Not long afterwards, Brodhead also was removed and replaced by Col. Gibson.
Name already in use - github.com Wright which mustered at Byrnsides Fort, along with others discussed here. Uniforms of the American Revolution. That in the early part of the year 1776 he commened the service of his Country as an Indian Spy under the Command of Captain Wright and was Stationed in Burnsides Fort.
13th Virginia Regiment - Journal of the American Revolution 21 hrs Left WWI 13TH ENGINEER TRENCHART PAINTED BRODIE HELMET $110. Summary [ edit] The 13th Virginia Regiment was authorized on 16 September 1776 by the Continental Congress for service with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Molly Pitcher Research Papers - 890 Words | Internet Public Library Escrito en 27 febrero, 2023. List of battleships of the United States Navy, United States Army Center of Military History, http://www.history.army.mil/books/revwar/contarmy/ca-fm.htm, Bibliography of the Continental Army in Virginia, Grayson's Additional Continental Regiment, Thruston's Additional Continental Regiment, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Virginia regiments of the Continental Army. He again commenced his duties as a Spy on the 15th day of April 1777 and continued in service as such until the first of November following when he was discharged having served that summer six months and a half: that he again entered the service as an Indian Spy on the 15th day of April 1778 and continued in service until the first of November following making a tour of six months and a half: and again on the first day of May 1779 he entered the service as an Indian Spy and was discharged on the first day of November following having performed a tour of six months Service that summer making in the whole term of service as an Indian Spy which he served his Country two years and one month. Virginia Independent Companies Regiment of Guards Search Virginia Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 fromThe National Archives: NARA M246. They are divided up by state in alphabetical order. Keeneys Fort long pre-existed Arbuckles so that could be Arbuckles Fort. Brodhead and his colonial troops traveled up the Allegheny River on their expedition against the Seneca Indians. Marched to McAfees Station on Salt River, where Capt. It was credited as part of the Pennsylvania . It's possible it was incorrectly annotated. Enter your email address to get automatic notification of new posts to this blog. \ \x7 o .'X*- r, \ .^.
12th Virginia Regiment (Revolutionary War) FamilySearch That he was again drafted in the latter part of the summer or in the early part of the autumn of the same year 1781 from the County of Augusta and State aforesaid & was again command by Captain Thomas Hicklin and was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Vance; that he was marched accross the Blue Ridge at Rockfish gap, thence on by a place called Bowling green, thence on by Pages Ware House and thence on to Little York where Lord Cornwallis with his Army were then stationed; that he was at the Seige of York [28 Sep 19 Oct 1781] and at the taking of Lord Cornwallis and his army; that the British Army was marched out between two lines of the American Army to the place where they laid down their arms and then they returned through the same lines to their encampment in York Town, and on the next day they were marched out with their knapsacks on, and then took up their line of march under a strong escort or guard of the American Soldiers to the Barracks at Winchester Virginia; that he was one of the guard who escorted the prisoners to Winchester where he was discharged on the next day after his arrival having again served a tour of about three months as near as he now recollects.