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Cumming, Andrew

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:27:03 +0000

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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Copple, Daniel

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:25:13 +0000

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
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Cones, Christian

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:21:45 +0000

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

Coleman, Nicholas

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:19:18 +0000

From Philadelphia, commissioned November 15, 1776 in the 9th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line as 1st Lieut.; discharged August 27, 1778, remark “Left out of the new Arrangement.” He received two hundred acres of bounty land in Muskingum County, Ohio. Most of Nicholas’ war records evidently were burned by the British during the War of 1812. According to “Biographical and Portait Cyclopedia of Montgomery County Pennsylvania” he served in Proctor’s Artillery and was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. I have not been able to find an original source to prove the parentage of his son Nicholas Coleman, born in 1801.

SOURCE:
Biographical and Portait Cyclopedia of Montgomery County Pennsylvania

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Dorothy Coleman Dangerfield

Chilton, John

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:16:35 +0000

Captain John Chilton was born in 1739 in Virginia and died in 1777 at the Battle of Brandywine.

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Bruce W. Reid
Utah

Chester, John

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:15:43 +0000

According to his pension application, my ancestor: John Chester of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Line commanded by Josiah Harmer or Harman. John Chester was in a company commanded by Jacob Humphrey.

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Rick Proffitt

Carter, Joseph

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:02:53 +0000

Carter, Joseph — Private, 11th VA Regt. Joseph was my g-g-g-g-grandfather, born 04 Sept. 1736, Fauquier Co., VA; died Jan 1809, Russell Co., VA. I have no documentation or references specifically stating that Joseph was at Brandywine, but DAR application record copies (#s 771445 and 704716 ) indicate that he served in Lt. Col. John Cropper’s unit. During the relevant period, I believe Lt. Col. Cropper was in command of the 11th VA. So, at a minimum, Joseph Carter’s unit was present. However, I have not been able to confirm Joseph’s dates of service in the 11th VA. I am now in the process of attempting to establish Joseph’s presence at Valley Forge.

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Andrew R. Mylott
Westport, CT

Carrel, George

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:30:10 +0000

George Carrel was in the regiment of Colonel Gumby of the Maryland line for the term of 3 years. Pension record 8230. Enlisted Dec 6, 1776 and joined the company commanded by Capt Williams afterwards commanded by Capt Jonathan Morris and in the regiment commanded by John Gumby in the Maryland Line and served as a private soldier 3 years against the common enemy under the Continental establishment. Regularlry discharged. Local histories mentioned that he was a survivor at the battle of Brandywine. I am his gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandaughter, my mother being Mary A Carrel Smith. I had the priviledge to visit the battlefield last October. What a thrill to be where he had been 222 years earlier. I have also visited the place where he is buried in Jackson twp, Morgan Co Ohio. His son came here to Illinois about 1850.

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Nancy Smith Caton
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Cameron, John Canady

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:28:32 +0000

John Canady Cameron was a private in the Continental Army and was wounded in the battle of Brandywine. John Canady Cameron was a brother to Simon Cameron who was a U.S. Senator and Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln.

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Wilma Bradley