Enlisted Leesburg VA. Served under Washington 3 years. My ancestor was with the 2nd Va Line. Enlisted at Leesburg 1776. Was discharged at Richmond in 1779. Was with Washington at Brandywine and Monmouth NJ. I don’t know what other battles he was in. Left the Army and moved into Patrick Co. He is buried somewhere there. Information came from soldiers retirement records in National Archives. Served in Capt. Cabels regiment.

SOURCES:
Recorded under Rev Soldiers pensions in National Archives.

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Marion E. Foddrill
mfoddrill@4state.com
Relationship: gr.gr.gr.grandfather

This comes from DAR records and National Archives Records when he applied for and received his pension in 1818. His name: Joseph Lewis Finley. Born February 20, 1753 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Lived in Fagg’s Manor, Pennsylvania, quite near the Battlefield. In 1776 he was in Captain Andrew Long’s Company commanded by Col. Samuel Miles Pennsylvania Rifles, Second Lieutenant. October 24, 1776 put in the “Continental establishment” in Captain Marshall’s Company in the 13th PA regiment commanded by Col. Walter Stewart. Transferred to 8th PA regiment commanded by Col. Daniel Brodhead by Commission of Captain to take rank from October 20, 1777 later major in 2nd, 8th and 13th Pennsylvania Line. He also fought in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Germantown and Monmouth. On July 4, 1782 in York, Pennsylvania. He died in Ohio and this is where he is buried.

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Maureen Finley Slivka
Relationship: great, great, great grandfather

Philip Fine was the first natural-born American settler in St. Louis, Missouri, and was with la Fayette in the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777.

Sources:
The Republican, St. Louis, Monday, August 4, 1879 (Interview with his nephew, also named Philip Fine) (from microfilm at the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO)

Booklet No. 58, Vinett Fine and His
Descendants, by Emmerrett Goff Fine, published by The Washington County Historical Society, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1971

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Christine Kluempers
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George Emery or Emrey was my gggggrandfather and according to family history was at the Battle of Brandywine, stationed, at his own request, as a private at Chad’s Ford on Brandywine. He joined the 2nd Virginia regiment of Continentals as Quartermaster in March or April of 1777. Was in the battle of Germantown. Wintered at Valley Forge and was in the Carolinas and Georgia. Still needs some research.

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Kathryn Howard
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Christopher Valentine Eaton – Stokes County, North Carolina – also listed as Christian Valentine, Christian Etter. Born 1756. Served at King’s Mountain and Battle of Brandywine. Email me for link to to a Revolutionary War Pension site that tells more about Christopher Eaton in Stokes County, North Carolina.

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dylilly@aol.com

Cornelius Drake was born 20 Oct 1754, New Jersey, and died in 1839, Webster, Monroe County, New York. He is buried in West Webster Cemetery, Webster, Monroe County, New York.

Military record: enlisted 1776, Private, Continental Regular Army, Gen. Maxwell’s Jersey Brigade, 3rd New Jersey Regiment, Capt. Dickerson’s Co., Capt. Ballard’s Co., discharged 1783, Sergeant. Pension application papers list Brandywine as one of the many battles he was in. He is on the Valley Forge Roster.

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Joyce Bucci
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In my family research I have found a Samuel DeWees who was enlisted by his father at 15 and was a fifer and witnessed the Battle Brandywine. He was a servant to Col. Humpton.

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Georgana Mobile
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I’m trying to find info on the battles my 4th great grandfather was in. Andrew Cumming belonged to the 2nd class of Lancaster County PA regiment of militia. He was under the command of Captain John Scott. He was first positioned about half way between Walsh’s Tavern (where the British were encamped) and Chadds Ford. He remained until the battle was over and then left for Wilmington. He was born April 12, 1760 in Lancaster County, PA He died November 27, 1835 in Blount County, TN. He applied for benefits (due to an act of Congress in June 1832) on August 3, 1832 at the State of Tennessee Second Judicial Circuit in Blount County Tennessee.

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Faith Haag
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Relationship: my 4th great grandfather

My gggg grandfather Daniel Copple served in Captain Daniel Burchart’s Company in the German Battalion of Pennsylvania in Continental Line and was in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. Source of this information is Pension file S.42656. My SAR Supplemental Ancestor Certificate is dated September 26, 2001. Please contact me if you have any questions.

SOURCE:
Pension file S.42656

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Gary Neal
grneal@earthlink.net
Relationship: gggg grandfather

I am researching Christian Cones and found your page. This is why I submit Christian Cones as a soldier that died at the Battle of Brandywine.

From the book Cones Family History in American compiled by Chester W. Cones Sr. published in 1963…….

Assuming that Christian could neither speak nor write the English language, at least not well, it is possible that the enlisting Sergeant may have spelled his name phonetically as “Coon”, and Christian may have even signed with an X mark, or in his native language, it is entirely possible the Christian Cones and Christian Coon was one and the same person, since both enlisted about the same time and both from the same locality, and the great similarity of the names. For instance you will note later on how the County Clerks, even misters misspelled the name as Coons, Coones, Couns, etc. but always signed “Cones”, whenever it was signed as Groom or as bondsman. I wrote and received a copy of the “Certificate Under Seal, as follows:

To Whom it may concern:-
“This is to certify that one “Christian Coon”, enlisted from Lancaster County, Penna, Aug 23d 1776 as a Private, in the German Regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Ludwig Weltner, according to a Return dated Aug. 23rd 1780.”
Signed Henry Howard Eddy, State Records Officer
STATE ARCHIVAL SEAL
Penna Historical and Museum Commission.
Authority of : Military Accounts (Line) Records of the Comptroller General at the division of Public Records.

SOURCE:
Cones Family History in American compiled by Chester W. Cones Sr. published in 1963.

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Anita Cones