 Captain Zeally Moss Chapter Illinois Society, Sons of The American Revolution  |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
