My wife’s gggggrandfather fought at the Battle of Brandywine. His name was Capt. Benjamin Harrison of VA. He was with the 13th VA.
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Scott Keith
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Hanks, Epiphroditus
My ggggr-grandfather Epiphroditus Hanks participated in this battle as well as Bunker Hill and York Town. He was 2nd cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln.
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Tommy J Moore, Gordonville, TX
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Hampton, Andrew
I am a member of the Garland Family Research Association and a descendant of several Revolutionary War veterans on my late father’s side. I am directly descended from Colonel Andrew Hampton, an officer in the Rutherford County militia. Colonel Hampton’s grandson-in-law, William Gutridge Garland, was my grandfather six times removed. I am quoting directly from a GFRA article on the family:
“During the 1780s several Garlands moved to Washington County, NC/Tn. They were Gutdidge, Samuel, Joseph, Elisha, John, Jesse, and Humphrey all related, maybe brothers, half-brothers, or even cousins, or father and sons. John, Elisha, and Humphrey have Revolutionary War records, and all were at the Battle of Brandywine…Humphrey Garland was born in 1749 (Revolutionary War Pension of 1834 has 1732 as his birth date), probably died after 1834, because he was on the 1834 pensoion, maybe in Jonesboro, Washington County, TN. He enlisted in the Colonial Army May 1776 to January 1778 in the North Carolina Line of Taylor’s Company. He was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He applied for his war pension from Jonesboro, TN in 1828.”
– Source Margaret Garland Timbs, GFRA Recording Secretary
William Gutridge Garland himself was not at Brandywine and family accounts have him as a member of the Rowan County militia.
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Frank A. Willis
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Guthrie, James
My ggggggrandfather served in the 8th Penna Continental Line, 2nd Lt., #37391437.
The American Guthrie by Laurence Rawlins Guthrie p216:
Says a legend, he [James Guthrie] collected a band of men, and aided the Continental Army at probably the Battle of the Brandywine. There is no official record of this.
James Guthrie is buried at the Forks of the Brandwine Presbyterian Church cemetery in Guthriesville, PA.
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Sheila Anastas
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Graham, James
Graham, James. He was in Col. Richard Buthle’s Regt. 9th PA, and was born in Carlisle, PA.
Glendy, William
Glendy, William, Private in the eighth Pennsylvania regiment under Colonel E. McCoy in a company commanded by Capt. Eli Myars(?). He enlisted August 7, 1776 in Westmoreland County, and was discharged by Colonel Byard in Pittsburgh August 7, 1779. He was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and Paoli, and several other skirmishes. At Germantown he received a severe wound to the neck with the ball never extracted. His discharge papers had been put in the hands of a member of the Pa. state legislature for help in securing a pension, but after several years with no reply they were given up as lost. In desperation, he went before associate judge David Drennan of the court of common pleas in Beaver Co., Pa to tell his story, with Robert Moore a member of Congress also vouching as to its authenticity. His pension of $8 a month was finally granted on February 8, 1819.
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Marlys Matthews
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Glass, William
William Glass, Sr was born 1725 in Dunkineillly, Donegal County, Ireland, and died 1811 in Leesburg, Washington County, Tennessee. He joined the Colonial armies in the west and was at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. He was discharged from the army in 1779. During the war he moved to Washington County in Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee), with his family and settled at or near where the village of Leesburg now stands. He again joined the army under General Shelby and was wounded in the Battle of King’s Mountain, by a musket over the right eye. It was this engagement that the British General Ferguson was killed. William returned home in 1781.
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Paula Glass
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Glancy, James
Glancy, James – York County, PA, fought under Lafayette, received 640 acres military tract land in Ohio, moved there 1819, Knox County.
Gilbreath, Patrick
GILBREATH, Patrick (b. 1739 Stirling?, Scotland – d. 1817 Belfast, Maine, immigrated to Pennsylvania about 1773) – The following was written by Patrick Gilbreath’s son Benjamin Gilbreath in 1864:
“My Father remained two years or more with the Army, was taken prisoner, I think he said at the Battle of Brandywine. He, with others, was put on board of a prison ship called the Jearsies and kept a long time in the Harbor at New York, until more than half of their member died of poison and starvation, then they were taken to Hallifax, where after suffering everything but death, they agreed to join the British. After getting Arms and their uniforms (red coats) and acquiring a little confidence, they amused themselves by sailing a large open boat in the harbour. After a while, thinking they were of no use there, seventeen of them agreed one evening to try their fortunes in navigating the Bay of Fundy, how long they were out I do not recollect; but on a morning they were within hearing of the surf on the shore, the fog rose a little, they saw a vessel which they knew, within half gunshot distance, they pulled for shore, halled their Boat up a little, caught their arms and sought safety in the woods, but being pursued by a superior force of armed men, they agreed, gave their pursuers a shot, and divided. My father, with eight of the others, took one course, while the others took a different course. The party with my Father, after three days in the wilderness, came to a place called Pemmaquid, where they obtained some refreshment. The people, learning that my Father was a millwright, they employed him to build a grist mill at a place called Round Pond, some 10 miles north of that place. My father’s name was Patrick Gilbreath.”
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Janet W. Brown
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George, John W.
George, Sgt. John W. – was Washington’s Drummer boy, was with the New Jersey Continental Line under Colonael Ogden.
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Frank H. Kautsky III
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