Militia & Associated Companies of Bucks County Pennsylvania

Officers Appointed by Committee of Safety
1776

In response to a resolve of the Provincial Conference, the county's Committee of Safety called up a militia force of four-hundred men on July 10, 1776, appointing the following officers to command those troops:

Colonel: Joseph HART

Captains:

John FOLLWELL
William ROBERTS
William HART
Valantine UP
John JAMISON

First Lieutenants:

John KROESEN
Henry DARRAH
Hugh LONG
Philip TRUMBOWER
Dennis MIDDLESWART

Second Lieutenants:

Abraham DUBOIS
James SHAW
Jacob DRAKE
Samuel DEANE
John IRWIN

Ensigns:

____ McKISSACK
William HIMES
Joseph HART
Stoffel KELLER
John McCAMMON

Adjutant: John JOHNSON

Surgeon: Joseph FENTON, Jr.

Quartermaster: Alexander BENSTEAD

Click here to view the Committee of Safety resolve authorizing the above commissions.

Pennsylvania Archives, 5^th Series, Vol. V.

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