The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-02-15
OUR LOCAL MILITIA, MINUTE MEN
AND FLYING CAMP OF '76.
PREPARED BY DIR. GEO. W. ARCHER.
From the Original Lists.
CONTINUED from last week.

ung till the 18th day of the same month, it was
resolved that the freehOlders and others and
the freemen from fifteen to sixty years OF age
should form themselves into companies OF six
ty-eight men, to choose captain, two iieuten-
ants, an ensign, four sergeants four eoporals,
and a drummer for each company. In com
piance Herewith and agreeable thereunto, u
sufficient number being inhabitants OF Mary
land, in Hartford county, adjacent to the Lower
Cross Roads, now Churchville,l having enroll
cd themselves, and on the 26th day OF Decem-
Der, IVA, met and made choice of their several
officers, in which position said company CON
tinued mastering once week until the 10Th day
of September, 1775, at which time said COM
pany having met, subscribed their names TO
the following enrolment.
We whose names, land so on, as In all the
Which having done, the said company i'm
medately proceeded to re-elect or confirm their
offcers-the following persons made choice
of and elected:
By whom were appointed four sergeants,
four corporals and Il drummer:
John Archer, captain; Edward Prall, first
lieutenant; James Allison, second lieutenant
Samuel Smith, ensign
"A list of the names OF the Lower CroSS
Roads Militia Company as enrolled:
John Archer, Edward Prall, James Allison,
George Barclay, William Boardsman, John llI
Stevenson, Samuel Smith. Charles Moore, Will
liam Grimes, John Tinnyi III smith smith John
Smith, Peter Laughlan, George Tollengger,
GIaughlan, John Hawthorn, Alexander efery,
Jonathan White, Jacob Slack, Robert Criswell,
James Walker, Andrew Harriet, John Perkins.
William Martin, Robert Hart, Robert Nc
Gloughlan, Edward Thompson, Daniel Clarke,
John Mills, Patrick Heany, robert Smith.
Hugh Diver, John Croesen, John Jameson,
(farmerJ Richard Croesen, John Jameson,
(innkeeperJ John Townsley, John Townsey,
Jr., John Blackburn, Jr., James Lee, Joseph
SON. Patrick Cretin, William Harrison, Joseph
Jervis, John Curry, Michael Donel, William
Hassett, John McCann, George Vandegrift,
Archer Hays William Williams, James Moore,
John Davidson, Samuel Doherty, Isaac Guyton,
Thomas Rowntree james Hews, George Butt
Ter, William Mcclure, Joseph Brownley,
son, Talbot Odle, Daniel Price, Ralph Smith,
Edward Short, Thomas Hill, Matthew McCiin-
took, James May, Nevin Kerr. Ezekiel Van
horn"
1t will be seen from the foregoing paper that
at least one of the captains must have begun
to enroll his company on the very first news
received of the conventions action on the SUBJ
ject, if, indeed, he did not anticipate II, for
within q fortnight after that action, he had en-
rolled a sufficient number to justify the choice
of officers, when he at once began to muster
his company and continued so to do every
week for near nine months before they sub
scribed their names in due form and reelected
their officers, as required. If the captain who
was given precedence of him and the other
who claimed precedence, exceeded him in
promptness of action, they must have been
wide awake indeed. So far as can at present
be known Capt. Archer's company was the
only one which was raised. or partly raised, in
the year IVA. This, however, does not pre-
clude the possibility that others were raised in
that year-there is simply no proof of if.
CHARLES ANDERSON, CAPTAIN NO. ).
Witness our hands this 23d day Of Septem-
"Charles Anderson, captain George Patter-
son, first lieutenant; Nathan Bayles, second
lieutenant; Michael Gilbert, ensign: Parker
Gilbert, James Pritchard, William Boner, Har-
mon Pritchard, Epnraim Byard, Benjamin
Smith, Daniel Dunahoo, Joseph Harris, Phili'
Donavln, Eleazer Pritchard, Isaac johnson,
Pat. Fowler, Benjamin Bayles, John Cooley,
Samuel Bayles, Joseph McFaddon, Daniel An
derson, James Byard, Robert Culver, Nicaja
Mitchell, Richard White, Richard Rutter, John
Carroll, Thomas Shearer, Samuel Gilbert, Ohm
Williams. James Barns. Thomas Gorrell,
Samuel Swart, William Jarvice. Aquilla Gill
BERT John Cummins, Dennis Durham, Andrew
Ferguson Robert Small, Ichabod Smith, Abra-
ham Robinson, Robert West, Alexander Ham
Ma, Thomas Gallon. Joshua Wood, Ephr aim
Cole, Abadah Pritchard, james Cole, Benjamin
Silver, William Silver, James Wood, Andrew
Ramsay, Robert Nixon, Robert Carswell, Will
liam Brannon, jonas Baylas, John Gallon,
Charles Bailey, Benjamin Culver David Smith,
James Boner of Barney"
"AQUILA HALL CAPTAIN No. 4.
WITNESS our hands this 9th day of Septem-
"Aquila Hail. captain Samuel Griffith, first
lieutenant; Jacob Forwood, second lieutenant;
John CLANCY, ensign Levin Mathews, Caleb
Beck, John Adams, Samuel Hanson, John Ma
jor, George Little, John Clarke, John Brown,
Hanson, Zebedee Bennett, John Whitacre,
Hezekiah Whitacre, Robert Faulkner. Jesse
Manly, Nehemiah Barnes. William Jones,
Abraham Bennett, Thomas Hanson, John Dor
rah, John Beck, William Smith, Jonas Steven
son, Joseph Smith Thomas Cowley. BENJAMIN
CLANCY, Edward Morris, James Steward, Thos.
Barrett, William Mooberry, John Mathews.
James Redman, John Casseldine William MUIR
ply. Edward Horton Brucebanks, John Gown,
Thomas Woodward, Joseph Johnson, George
Copeland, Archibald Johnson, George Drew,
Jacob Cumbest, George Chancey, John Run,
James Chancey, Francis Pitt, james Oliver,
i n Thomas Sutton lanes Met NArty. IOhu Nc
Bride, Petes. Lowell Thomas Brown, stephen
Crouch, wntsm - - -je 2,, Manly James
Francis Garland, Amos Hollis, Michael Como
way. Benjamin Osborne, Nathan GALLON, Gar
rett Garrettson, William Osborne, William
Redding, Edward Ward, James Lensgin,
Samuel Dooley, John Biggs, Thomas Blackis-
ton, Thomas Browning, John Hanson, Benja-
min Bennett, Samuel il-,[illegiblel William
johnson, Robert McGaw, james Drew"
CAPTAIN JOHN RoDGERs.-NO. 5.
Witness our hands this 18th day of Septem-
John Rodgers, captain; William Godsgrace,
first lieutenant; James Giles, second lieutenant
and adiutant; N, Matthew AleIan .d, ensign;
Archibald Beatty, sergeants; William Williams,
Samuel Howell, David Thompson, Alexander
Burns, corporels John Orr, drummer james
Hurry, tifer; Peter Fort, John Singleton. iona
than Grant, jackson Laverty, Robert Hunt,
Philip Mcdonald, John Marshall, Joseph Mont
Beach. David Deayer, BeIcher Michael, Will
liam Mitchell, Jr, James MITCHELL John -,
lilegble,l William Evitt, Patrick Mcdonald,
James Edwards, Francis Faust, Richard Watts,
Thomas West, Archibald McCurdy, William
Vantworth, John Lowell, James Ward, William
Hill, Thomas Walker, John Porter, John Wal
ker, Walter Taylor, Samuel Fowler William
Murphy, William Perry Fowler, Hugh Aunroe,
John Mitchell, William Coen, Jr., james Nc
Knight, Daniel Beaver, Stephen hargrass,
John Osborn, Andrew Evitt, George Veach,
Ralph Platt, Thomas Boyle, William Cantler,
James Scale, Jr., Samuel Richardson, OZwain
sutton, Michael West, Joseph Steel, Daniel
Williams, John Williams. Jonathan knight,
Knight, Samuel Durbin."
1.-The above areia true copy of the names of
every person, officers, subalterns and privates
belonging to the above company who seperate-
ly and severally desiring the clerk of the said
company to write their names for them profess
sing at the same time in form as their own
actual signing.
DANIEL MCPHAIL, elk"
"Attested:
JOHN RODGERS, Capt,
WIN. GODSGRACE Lieut..
ITO the Committee of Hartford County:
"GENTLEMEN.-Further it's desired you in
your wisdom will be pleas'd to fall upon some
method to furnish the above with few arms
answera bic to the committee, convention
whom else SOever il doth concern to return the
said arms the full value thereof when this
unhappy contest shall subside.
JOHN RODGERS,
WIN. GODsGRACR."
IN. B. The company is young but enrolling
daily"
Ten days loss of time on account of sick
ness and u doctor bill to pay, is anything but
pleasant for man of family tie contemplate.
whether he is laborer, mechanic, merchant
LeddeT, McXia, Texas, was sick in bed for ten
days with the grip during its prevalence year