A
Listing of some
of the
Patriots from which Captain Zeally Moss members descend
Sergeant
Andrew
McNitt
(1751-1778) |
Enlisted, Corporal,
Capt. Oliver Avery's company
of
minutemen which marched April 21, 1775 in response to the alarm of
April 19, 1775 (Battle of Lexington & Concord). Again enlisted
on April 27, 1775 under Capt. Hugh Maxwell's co., Col. William
Prescott's (10th) regt with 95 days service and supposed to be at the
Battle of Bunker Hill. A third enlistment as Sergeant, Capt. Samuel
Taylor's co., Col. Porter's regt. on July 10, 1777 with 38 days
service. This company marched from Charlemont to reinforce the Northern
Army after the evacuation of Fort Ticonderoga. Andrew was murdered in
1778. |
Ensign
Ezra Rutty
(1741-1812) |
Ensign, Capt.
Ichabod Ward's Company, 3rd
Regiment, Pawling's Precint, Dutchess County, New York Militia. Elected
September 20, 1775 and Commissioned on October 17, 1775. Died in
Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania in 1812. |
Private
Charles Grogan
(a1755-a1790) |
He became active in
the Revolutionary Militia and
appears in official records on August 12, 1777
as a Private on a muster list with Capt. John Rutherford’s Company, 4th
Battalion under Colonel Robert Elder, as it stood at Middletown on its
march to Philadelphia. Charles again appears on a militia muster roll
in 1778 with Capt.
Andrew Stewart’s Company of the 7th Class of the Fourth Battalion of
Lancaster County Militia commanded by Col. Robert Elder. In April of
1779 he has a third appearance as a Private with the “Paxtang
Volunteers” on a list of those who marched to Bedford County with Capt.
John Rutherford’s company assigned from Capt. Whitley’s company.
Charles’ last
appearance on a militia roster comes in 1779 where he appears as 3rd
Class on return of the 7th Company of the 4th Battalion of the
Lancaster County Militia commanded by Robert Elder. Charles froze to
death in the Buffalo Valley region of Pennsylvania during the winter of
1790-1.
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Private
Jacob Hartman
(1751-a1811) |
Enlisted as a
private in Capt. John Douglass'
Co., Col. Hampton's Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment in 1776 out of
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was with the main body of
Gen. George Washington's Army at the Battle of Brandywine on September
11, 1777 where he was wounded by a musket ball that struck his leg and
was then stabbed by a bayonet in the other leg as he lay injured. He
was removed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to recover from his wounds and
there performed garrison duty throughout the remainder of the war as he
was unable to return to field service. Jacob
died in Bernhill, Berks, Pennsylvania circa 1811. |
Private
James Couples Foster Jr.
(1753 - 1837) |
Born in Ireland in 1753 and came
to Virginia as a young boy about 8 years old. Later the Family moved to
Abbeville, SC and became part of the Long Cane Congregation of the Presbyterian
Church. James enlisted as a Private in the Militia in 1780 and served under
Captain McGowen and Captain Samuel Morrow, fought in the Battle of Cowpens,
January 17, 1781 and was in several skirmishes. discharged in 1783. He
died in Decatur County Indiana 13 Sep 1837, and is buried in Springhill
Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
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Captain
Robert Montgomery McTeer
(1740 - 1825) |
Captain Robert McTeer led the 8th Company Militia of the 1777 –
4th Battalion, under Col. Samuel Lyon of the township of Fermanagh,
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was born 25 January 1740 in
Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania and died in Blount County, Tennessee 6 April
1825. He is buried at Eusebia Church Cemetery, Eljoy, TN. Robert McTeer served through the Revolution.
After the revolution he migrated from Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, through
Virginia and was the first man in Blount County, Tennessee where he
built Fort McTeer, a Tub Mill, and a farming & livestock operation.
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