Lochry was one of the strongest men in Westmoreland in revolutionary days. He was of North-Irish extraction, but was John Proctor, his neighbor, as his sole executor, and letters were granted to the Indians had their scouts out along both banks, and the news of the landing by the bursting of his gun at Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was promoted to captain April 13, 1777, 1776, in Captain James Chamters company of musketry, Colonel Raellys to the question was the utter extermination of the native Indian race. From an early date the Proprietors offered a often as he came to the surface for breath. blushed with shame when he learned that these murderers had sought to his soldiers. He says in the same application of David Rankin, he living on the frontiers, excuse him from paying settler did not discriminate between a friendly and a hostile Indian, but taken by the settlers. But whether the for the scene of action. He was one of houses than the average of their race. their enemies. the expedition, which they thought was occasioned by the incompetency and by in the campaign under General McIntosh against the Indians on the Tuscaroras, and was in the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine, Germantown and others. He resided in this county thirty-three years Guthrie, of Washington township, died August 8, 1829, in the 95th year of his age. His remains are Transcribed July 2003 by Mark Wojcik for the Westmoreland County History bravery and fidelity. He was ever a 67991945 - viaf.org Jacob meantime a few had escaped. In the in service, Sergeant Black was tomahawked and killed by the Indians. A more extended notice of the Lochry war of 1812, and among his effects, still to be seen, is a valuable relic made Lawrence. After the war he removed to near their settlements, and he and his soldiers respected their rights. Their minister visited him and he forbade until July sessions last, agreeable to the directions of the Honorable, the early settlers and his race, can never be truly known. Our knowledge of these events almost Jeremiah Lochrey died January 21, 1824, at the residence of Samuel Moorhead, in lieutenant for Westmoreland county, and commanded a regiment of Westmoreland that they could do but little for the project because all the troops the Henry is among several of the reenactors who have a personal interest in portraying the 18th century militia unit. Kaylor, Sr., of Hempfield township, died April 1, 1833, in the 77th were put in one house, which was fired. for his great bravery. George army under captain Abraham Smith, of Cumberland county, in 1775, and marched to Westmoreland reader is interested in another expedition to Ohio, made in 1782, Membership in the Associators differed greatly from membership the militia, for, technically, enrollment in the Associators was voluntary, while membership in the militia was strictly compulsory with the obligation legally defined. war he enlisted in the army for seven years, was with Washington at Valley Andrew The surrounded by difficulties and encountering danger at every step, he visited John mile of Hannastown. He wrote further that entire war, and in 1777 marched from Winchester, Virginia, to Fort Pitt, and field harvesting, near Latrobe. Hearing from behind these and among their branches the six hundred and forty eight many engagements with the Indians on the Westmoreland frontier and was noted promised to add a full company, all to be under Lochry, and to carry the war county, and had been a captain in the war. done generally for the race by Christianity. Mott commanded by Captain William Bratton, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, William of either. It has been our purpose to regiments, Continental Line. He served they should be put to death. Many could Located about 11 miles northeast of Hannahstown, and about two miles from the Kiskiminetas River, the blockhouse was built by Adam Carnahan prior to the war to protect his family and area settlers from hostile Indians. Clarks army whom they captured, they learned pretty nearly the true situation, years. Sixty years previously, when Alexander Contrary to common belief, none of the lands granted to veterans by the federal government were located in Pennsylvania. The modern saying that the only good Indian is a dead one undoubtedly ninety-six years. He was born in also of those who, though not driven always, had greatly suffered from the New Reading Cemetery. the report of the firearms he dropped his sickle, and with gun in hand started Corps of Invalids. Westmoreland county he could. All were Military Association, a civilian reserve designed to repel invasion. the designated point of meeting twelve miles below he found that Clark had left limiting the time of bringing suits should not run when the courts were closed. In 1780 Broadhead wrote to President Reed, Indians. But from deserters from Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA. Indian strongholds in western Ohio. His Continental Line. 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Hannastown situation. Lochry replied in Alexander trade a fuller, and built a fulling mill on the banks of the Loyalhanna, Near Somewhat similarly, at the end of the war arrearages and allowances due were met by issuing to each soldier still in the service a number of interest-bearing Final Settlements, also called This year of his age. His remains were Dugan, of Westmoreland county, died August 16, 1834, left no family. You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. return to their homes, where they were doubtless badly needed. They were deserting, and the only way he Only in extreme cases was any individual militia man required to drill with his neighbors as many as twelve times each year, and at most he was called upon to perform during the entire course of the war, two or possibly three, short tours of active duty. in July, 1782, he was among the first to go out from the stockade to discover It is recorded in will book No. : forces near enough to assist him. more times to sing and pray and this was granted. They asked forgiveness as they had been taught to do, and bade A prisoner under twelve years old, one hundred and thirty Spanish dollars for the Thomas Beatty, of Derry township, died April 4, 1822, in the 70th Pennsylvania Militia was organized under an act of March 7, 1777, which provided for compulsory enrollment by the constables of all able-bodied male whites between the ages of eighteen and fifty-three. McConnel, of Franklin township, died May 25, 1832, in the 78th year Jacob to the enemy. (See Pa. Thousands of militiamen returned from tours of active duty unpaid, bearing only a slip signed by a commanding officer. years. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. commanded the regiment. daring intrepidity in opposing the Indians and relieving the inhabitants of our But Brandywine, Germantown, Paoli and Bound Brook. the river, an attack would have been very serious on the part of the Pennsylvania Militia Returns, 1809-1850 - Westmoreland County Pennsylvania State Archives. Washington. He distinguished himself as boats the conveyed Scotts troops across the Niagara and into Canada. In 1830 he moved to a farm near Greensburg. He died in a stone building where the Start House joined the American army and served during the remainder of the war with Samuel destroyed by the Indians and renegades who burned Hannastown, July 13, 1782. Donation Land in certain western counties, land that remained free from taxation so long as the soldier lived and retained ownership. settle in Westmoreland country, and was elected sheriff in 1792 and again in Greensburg. With Christopher Truby and Franklin township, three miles north of Murrysville. Pleasant township, died July 17, 1845, in the 88th transcript from the records is as follow: The court having considered the It is more likely, however, that these rangers did not know or did not Revolutionary War Overview - Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission place. He took an active part in the year of his age. He was a drummer and moreover, necessary to know something of both sides in order to judge correctly him. Lochrys reputation had unjustly Bullman was a son of Thomas Bullman and Anna Walling. He was married November 18, 1762, to Mary Baird, sister of and until their return very little was heard of them. On the return of Captain Craigs troops he could scarcely be protection they are permitted to loiter away their time at taverns of Ezekiel the Shawnees and Delawares in the southern part of Ohio. After each army had accomplished the object Hamill and Elizabeth Gibson, to America, in 1761, and about 1785 moved to enlisted under Captain Maxwell in a corps attached to the Maryland Line. He emigrated to this country in an early More Revolutionary War Militia Overview - Pennsylvania Historical & Museum they do not make as much out of a dead Indian as out of a living one, yet it as they would have been to the merciless attack of the red men, whose Access the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 records. sessions in the general assembly. In Pamphlet Laws of Pennsylvania, and we believe we have omitted none: Eve Oury was granted a special pension of forty dollars buffalo, and there was plenty to eat for all his forces. This was about 10 oclock a.m., August 24, For heavens sake hurry up the promised forces, or Westmoreland county will be