Militia & Associated Companies of Bucks County Pennsylvania

Officers Commissioned
1748

 

Battle's, The History of Bucks County, lists the following officers as receiving commissions from the governor on February 12, 1748:

Captains Lieutenants Ensigns
Alexander GRAYDON
Joseph INSLEE
Langhorne BILES
George BENNETT
Richard WALKER
Anthony DENORMANDIE
Anthony TREAT
Garret VANSANT
Garret WYNKOOP
Robert WALKER
James BARBER
David LOWELL
John SEVERNS
Ralph DUNN
William DAVIS

On March 29, 1748, Pennsylvania's Provincial Council approved commissions for the following return of officers:

Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel

Major

Alexander GRAYDON Mathew HUGHES John DENORMANDIE

Captains

Lieutenants

Ensigns

Simon BUTLER James MEREDITH Benjamin BUTLER
James HHUSTON Archibald FINLEY William WALKER
Henry CORSON Isaiah VANZANT Joseph HART
Griffith OWEN Thomas KELLY William WILLIAMS
Alexander HUNTER James MARTIN John MILLER
William CRAIG George GRAY Thomas ARMSTRONG
George HUGHES James BOGART Barnet VANHORNE
William RAMSEY Hugh MILLER James ADAMS

Click here to view the Provincial Council minutes recording the above commissions. 

 On May 25, 1748, Pennsylvania's Provincial Council approved commissions for the following return of officers:

Captains

Lieutenants

Ensigns

Charles STEWART James HART William HART
Anthony WRIGHT Lewis RUE Richard VANHORNE
Robert JEMMISON John BEARD Samuel MARTIN
James McLOUGLIN James DAVIS John HALL
John WILSON Thomas BLAIR George OVERPACK
Bernard VANHORNE, Jr.* Robert CUMMINGS* Ralph DUNN*

* Unbeknownst to the Provincial Council, these officers had withdrawn from the Captain Bennet's Northampton Township Company,  and forming another Company to which the above commissions applied. Subsequent to receiving these commissions Colonel GRAYDON notified the Council, which investigated the matter and withdrew the commissions.

Click here to view the Provincial Council minutes regarding the above commissions.

 

Pennsylvania Colonial Records, Vol. V, and The History of Bucks County, Battle.

 

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