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Surname
Given name
Patriotic Service
Service
Information
Ash
Charles
Private
Maryland Militia
Charles County
Oath of Fidelity
Blackburn
James
Private
7th Regiment
Virginia
Enlistment
2 Feb 1777
& 13 Feb 1784
Brokaw John Private
New Jersey Militia 		Captain Peter D. Vroom's Company of Somerset Militia, Colonel Abraham Quick's Battalion
Brokaw, Sr. Abraham Member of the Committee of Safety Sussex County, New Jersey, met 
at courthouse on 10 Aug 1775
Chestnut
John
Private
6th Virginia Regiment
Augusta County
Virginia 1777
Cowan
James
Private
Virginia Militia
Contributed Wheat & Flour
Cowan
John
Virginia
Contributed Wheat & Flour
Cunningham
Thomas
Private
Virginia
Enlistment
5 May 1777
Dalton Reuben Private Virginia Militia Military Capt. William Bobbitt's Company 
Montgomery Co., Va.
Deal William 2nd NC Regiment (under Lafayette) Died at Valley Forge March 1778

Dearing

Henry Lieutenant under 
Col. Joseph Crockett, Jr.

1779-1782

Deel, II William North Carolina militia Service Area: Edenton and Black Swamp
near Chowan County
Finney
Ebenezer Ward
Private
4th Regiment
New York
Rensselaer County
New York
1775 -1783
Hall
Joseph
Corporal
4th Company
New Jersey Militia
Morris County
New Jersey
1781 -1783

Hartman

Christopher

Private
New Jersey Militia 		Minuteman
Hough
Moses
Private
New Jersey Militia
Campaigns
Brunswick through Monmouth
Howe
Edward
Maryland
Baltimore County
Oath of Allegiance
Irwin
James
Private
Pennsylvania
Militia
Frontier Ranger
Lopp
Johannes
Colonel
North Carolina Militia
Campaigns Camden through Yorktown
Lowe
Derrick
Teamster
Member Arms Commission
Somerset
New Jersey
Manning
Samuel
Private
New Jersey
Valley Forge
Founder of
Lebanon Ohio
Mardis
William
Private
Virginia
Enlistment 1777 & 1781
Yorktown
Matzinger
Felix
Furnished Supplies
SC, NC & VA Militias
Aided Francis Marion "Swamp Fox"
Matzinger
Jacob
SC, NC & VA Militias
Messenger for Francis Marion "Swamp Fox"
McPherson
Adam
Private
Lancaster PA
Militia
Battle of Whitemarsh
Olinger
Christopher
Private
2nd Regiment
MD & PA Continental Line
Enlistment 1777 & 1778
Battle of Brandywine
Owings, Jr.
Joshua
1st Lieutenant
Maryland
Baltimore County
Owings, Sr.
Joshua
Public Service
Maryland
Baltimore & Anne Arundel County
Reynolds
William Amos
Private
NC Continental Line
 Dragoon
Cape Fear
Sprong
David
Private
4th Regiment New York
Militia
Albany County New York
1776-1781
Stonecypher
Henry
Private
Pennsylvania Militia
 York County

Tuley, Jr.

Charles

First Rifle Company of the
Amherst County (VA) Militia

Joined troops commanded by Marquis de Lafayette in June
1781. At the Battle of Yorktown, October, 1781.  Died on his
 way back home, November, 1781.

Van Winkle William Private
New Jersey Militia 		February 1778 - January 1782
Battle of Springfield, June 23, 1780