This week I was reviewing Muster, Payrolls and List of Effectives for Capt Gross Scruggs company of the Fifth Virginia. The unit was organized on 12 February 1777 at Fort Pitt in present-day western Pennsylvania to consist of nine companies of troops from the far-western Virginia counties (now parts of West Virginia and western Pennsylvania). Theyre the best documentation we have on life and service on the Virginia frontier. 1. John Hardin and advance guard discovered thirty or forty of the enemy descending the river in canoes. And that he this deponant perfectly recollects of hearing the said Peter Dixon, state more than thirty years since, that he the said Peter, was drafted for the term of six months in Greenbrier County Virginia, in the War of the Revolution. In the James Christy application below, Christy mentions serving under Capt. 13th Virginia Regiment - Brandywine Soldiers Category: 13th Virginia Regiment "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. The 13th Virginia Regiment was a United States infantry regiment during the American Revolutionary War. His father was the quintessential frontiersman from French Indian War era, and its likely that Michael wasnt much different. The regiment saw action in the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, and the Battle of Monmouth. Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. The 8th Pennsylvania, also stationed there, was commanded by Col. Daniel Brodhead. Moylan's Light Dragoons, 1779. He then lived in Greenbrier County Virginia. I returned home to Greenbrier County in the State of Virginia the troops were discharged our tour of service was on this campaign three months. I am wondering, however, about the timing of Mr. For faster navigation, this Iframe is preloading the Wikiwand page for 13th Virginia Regiment . American Revolutionary War: John Page (April 28, 1743 - October 11, 1808) was an American politician. That in the spring of 1777 he entered the servis of his countary and served against the Indians as herein stated That he was living in Augustia [sic: Augusta] County Virginia in that part that is now the county of Greenbrier That oweing to the depredations committed by the Indians on the Inhabitants along the new settlements in Western Virginia the people were compelled to errect Fort for their protection and Government ordered a number of men to be stationed in each Fort or garrison for their defence in case they was attacked by Indians and to scout by turns on scouting and spying parties to watch the aproach of the Indians, For this purpose on the first of April 1777 he volinteered under the command of Captain William Hamilton [pension application R4513] and was stationed in a garrison scituated on Muddy creek and range and reconnoiter along the Medow river [sic: Meadow River] and cross over onto the waters of New River thence return to the Fort dureing this season they had no engagement with the Indians. During the Revolutionary War, . Without a guide to help his men go farther north, Brodhead returned to Fort Pitt and his men sacked and burned empty American Indian towns along the way. I would doubt that they drove beef cattle, because they would have been using a wilderness trail to reach the destination. Fourth Connecticut Regiment of Infantry Continental Line. List of the revolutionary soldiers of Virginia. I then volunteered in the company of Captain Andrew Kinkade [Andrew Kincaid] Lieutenant James Calwell [James Caldwell] at Whitleys Station [on Walnut Flat Creek in Lincoln County] in Kentucky in the month of November 1780, in the Regiment or Battallion commanded, by Colonel Benjamin Logan, marched from thence to the Ohio river, crossed the same at the mouth of Licking, from thence we marched to the Old Chilicothe Indian Towns, thence to the head of the Miami. The reason for this was that some of the mountain-folk of Montgomery County were organizing for a takeover of the Lead Mines at Fort Chiswell. He aided in retaking eleven American prisoners from the Indians after killing two Indians in the engagement. The application contains an amendment, this time with more detail: [W]hile he was stationed at Fort McIntosh, he was sent out with fifteen or twenty others on a scouting party; while out on this party they were attacked by about forty Indians and succeeded in killing a great many of them. That he entered the service of the United States about the first of March in the year 1778 as a drafted militia man in Captain Thomas Wrights Company of the County of Greenbrier State of Virginia to serve a tower [tour] of three months which tower he served, some few days after he joined the said Wrights Company the said company marched to New River in the State aforesaid where his Company was attached to Colonel James Hendersons Regiment. 13th Virginia Regiment 14th Virginia Regiment 15th Virginia Regiment 1st Virginia State Regiment 2nd Virginia State Regiment Miscellaneous German Regiment Grayson's Regiment Hartley's Regiment Hazen's Regiment Malcolm's Regiment Patton's Regiment Provisional Rifle Corps (Morgan's) Spencer's Regiment https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-12-02-0514, From Washington to Gibson [29 December 1777], All correspondence between Washington and Gibson, National Historical Publications and shoud chuse to determine the matter your self. On 25 Mar., GW wrote Gates that Our number of effectives is so reduced by innoculation that it is impossible to spare the few Men of the 13th Virginia Regiment just at this time. Instead, GW sent Russell to Fort Pitt to collect and take the command of by far the greatest part of the Regiment who are now stragling about that Country (see also GW to Russell, 30 March). from Fort to Fort and give the alarm so that preparations might be made for defensive operations by the people that were forted and that those who had ventured out to work their corn might betake themselves to the Fort before the Indians would attack them. These documents include muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous. In May of 1778, Washington appointed Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, of Georgia, to succeed Gen. Hand in running the entire Western Department primarily Fort Pitt. Inside were three barracks, warehouses, officers quarters, a forge, kitchen, and powder magazines. After the Revolution, the fort was the home of the First American Regiment, the oldest active unit in the United States Army. Left Valley Forge in May 1778 for Fort Pitt. Prussian, or Polish-into their regiment. Revolutionary War, 1076: 783-802, 1077:860-867 (CSR); Heitman, Register, 249 Publication Title: Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 Publisher: NARA Short Description: NARA M246. The undertaking and of which was considered to be very hazardous We arived safe at Logans Station on Dicks river (Dix River near present Stanford, KY) in Kentucky and delivered said express as directed to Colonel [Benjamin] Logan of Kentucky Staid at said station about Three weeks when the troops that this said declarant belonged to arived from Fort Chissel in Virginia for the purpose of joining Genl Clark. 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 . Private James Amberson, previously of Capt. Lieutenant Colonel Walker was promoted to colonel . That again in the spring of 1782 on the first of April he volunteered and served on spying parties and in Hamilons [sic] Garrison untill the first of October under the command of the said Capt William Hamilton That he recollects in this year that he went on a spying campaign in company with Lenard Cooper John Shoemate Jesse and John Aursbourn[?] Reuben Gilder's Co. Capt. This scouting party was under the command of Lieut. and further this deponant saith not. Wright and being stationed at Byrnsides Fort, under Capt. The official records corroborate his recollection: It was noted in the Virginia Militia records for the County of Greenbrier, that in 1780, Captain Thomas Wright raised a company, to go against the Indians at Detroit. There destroyed the Indian Towns, destroyed their (the Indians) Corn and other property. I remained in service under the aforesaid officer at Fort Laurence Fort McIntosh Fort Pitt & fort Wheeling removing from the one place to the other until the close of the Revolutionary war. Koquetakeghton was killed while serving as a guide for an American expedition against the British post at Fort Sandusky in November of the same year. that during the whole of the aforesaid time he was either actively engaged in scouting or in Garrison with an Imbodied Corps under the command of the aforesaid Officers and that he was not engaged in any civil pursuits during the aforesaid periods. He states after he returned home from the tower aforesaid he removed to the County of Montgomery & State of Virginia and in the month of August 1778 he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the company of George Parrish of the County of Montgomery & State aforesaid as an Indian Spy the Company to which he belonged was ordered to guard the frontiers on Knew River [New River] where they were attached to Colonel Taylors Regiment which was commanded by said Taylor. Servt, W. Russell Colo. Commr Genl Muhlenbergs Brigade. I believe the Brodhead expedition is mentioned in the following narrative by another member of the Greenbrier Militia, who mustered at Byrnsides Fort, in what was most assuredly 1778: The Winckleback application was known. That he was at the Building of Fort McIntosh, on Ohio below Big Beaver Creek (this is the Beaver River at present Beaver PA, constructed in the Fall of 1778) and was discharged at that place by Col. Brodhead . Gibson made an error when adding the figures of one row of the return, resulting in an incorrect total of 258. But Genl Clark having returned to Kentucky after an expedition to the Scioto in which the troops that this declarant belonged was to have participated in But arived to late for to join Genl Clark aforesaid in said expedition was disbanded by Major Hamilton who were their Commandant in the month of June 1778 and returned home to Virginia. And as for Crawford, he would be burned at the stake in 1782. Companies recruited men from Hampshire, Berkeley, Botetourt, Dunmore, and Prince Edward counties. Rockingham County Virginia to secure the marriage of Daniel Trout to Catharine Grub b.] On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. John L. Fink's Co. Capt. The fortress was constructed in 1778 under the direction of Lt. Col. Cambray-Digny, a French engineer, and named in honor of General Lachlan McIntosh. It seems likely that West and Wright were a part of the relief force mounted from Camp Union, as described by John Stuart and Matthew Arbuckle as having around 65 men from the local forts. At the time, and unknown to Hull, only 100 men of the 41st Regiment, along with 300 militiamen and 150 Indians, defended Fort Malden. That in the Spring of 1778 on the first of May he Valenteered and Served under Capt William Hamilton untill the first of Sept in the same year that in this year he was stationed in Hamiltons Garrison which was situated on Muddy creek (a tributary stream of Greenbrier river) about five miles higher up on said creek than the Fort that he had served in the year previous that he remained in Hamiltons Fort untill the night of the 28 of May when Leonard Cooper and a nother Spy came and informed the Garrison that Donlyes Fort (Donnallys Fort) (which was about 12 miles distance from Hamiltons Fort) was attacked by about two Hundred Indians and Capt Hamilton supposeing that his Fort was not strong enough to withstand and attack from such a force of Indians ordered his men to march that night to Keeny Fort [Fort Keeney] which was situated five miles below on Muddy Creek where he remained with a regulary embodied corps untill the time above named that is untill the 1st September 1778. Gibson made an error when adding the figures of one row of the return, resulting in an incorrect total of 258. He was discharged from service during the winter having continued in service six months. Soon after, Brodhead led an expedition to stop the threat of American Indian raids on the frontier. It was not until May that GW reluctantly ordered the remainder of the 13th Virginia Regiment at Valley Forge to march to Fort Pitt (see GW to Pickering, 23 May). description ends , 10:22526, 247, 253, 260; Russells undated letter to Congress is in DNA:PCC, item 78). GW had known Kiashuta since 1753, when Kiashuta had acted as a guide on GWs mission to warn off the French troops on the Ohio. Mar 11, 2023 5th Maryland Regiment at Washington . 3 companies under Major Hamilton, includeing mine went to Chissels Mountain [sic] and from there towards Kentucky a part of the men indeed almost all of them went on to Kentucky. 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. Uniforms of the American Revolution. It was occupied until it was abandoned in 1791. He served as Captain at the battle of Germantown in Colonel William Russells Virginia regiment. of Regiment not recollected and says he served as a private in the Virginia volunteer line under the following named officers under Captain John Ben Bever [?] To try and prevent this tragedy, some wives . Drafted as aforesaid in the month of Febuary seventeen hundred seventy Eight, And marched in the month of March of the same year To Fort Chissell (Chiswell) in Virginia In the Company Commanded by Captain John Henderson under the command of Major Hamilton [probably Andrew Hamilton] stationed at Fort Chisel aforesaid. Girty deserted the American cause in March 1778, and thereafter he served as an interpreter for the British at Detroit, taking part in Indian raids on western settlers. Kiashuta, also known as Guyasuta and The Hunter (c.17221794), was a prominent Seneca chief who took part in many councils between the Iroquois and the British before the Revolutionary War. This article about a specific military unit of the American Civil War is a stub. Book excerpt: A definitive guide to veterans from Blair County, Pennsylvania who served in: Revolutionary War; War of 1812; Mexican War; Civil War; Spanish American War; and, World War 1. That sometime in the year 1774 he volunteered as a Private Militia man under Captain Benjamin Harriss [Benjamin Harris?] Entered Valley Forge with 442 men assigned and 175 fit for duty. In the summer of 1783 [could be 1782] the month he does not recollect he was again called into the service as a drafted militia man under the same Captain A. Relationship: My wifes gggggrandfather. Indeed, Company C, Capt. The acquisition of Texas involved us in the Mexican War. In response, the said Greenbrier Militia officers, Andrew Donnally, Samuel Brown, and Andrew Hamilton, penned the following response to Jefferson: A Letter from your Excellency of the 24th of December directing that 137 Men of the Militia of this County shoud forthwith be raised and sent to the County of Kentucky to join Colo. Clarke, and serve under him this ensueing Summer on an Expedition against the Indians in Consequence of which We have given orders to Draft that Number together with Proper Officers to Command them, amounting to 146 effective Men; so large a number out of a Militia scarcely 550 strong lying in a County exposed to the daily inroads of the Indians, fill[s] us with much uneasiness about the dangers we are like[ly] to suffer from this weakening of our Militia, especially at a time when we cannot expect to be reinforced from any of the interiour Counties, shoud any such danger arise.

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