MEMBERS ELECTED

July 1997 – June 1998

Brandon Stewart Andrus

 

Elected November 13, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

John Hesser (August 1761 – June 1825)

 

Private, 4th Company, 6th Battalion, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1776-1777, 1781.

John Herman Bowman

 

Elected May 14, 1998

Admitted on the service of:

 

Daniel Guth Bowman (June 1737 – 1806)

 

Private, 2nd Company, 3rd Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1781-1782; Private, 6th Company, 34th Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1781-1782.

Paul Wesley Burrows, Jr.

 

Elected September 11, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

Thomas Cratty (ca. 1730 – ca. 1786)

 

Private, 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Army, n.d.; Private, 8th Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia, n.d.

William Allen Carr

 

Elected May 14, 1998

Admitted on the service of:

 

John Brent (1739-August 1781)

 

Member, Committee of Safety, Charlotte County, Virginia, 1775-1776; Member, 4th Virginia Regiment, Continental Army, three years service.

James Boote Congdon

 

Elected February 12, 1998

Admitted on the service of:

 

Edward Rogers (April 1735 – 1813)

 

Captain, 3rd Company, Colonel Gay’s Regiment, Connecticut Militia, 1776.

Vaughn Howard Cover

 

Elected May 14, 1998

Admitted on the service of:

 

Joseph Mishler (___ - January 1819)

 

Private, Captain Smuller’s Company, 9th Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1779; Private, 2nd Company, 3rd Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1780-1783.

Ward Stephenson Curtiss, III

 

Elected September 11, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

Penuel Child (March 1757 – August 1843)

 

Private, Connecticut Militia, 1775; Sergeant, Captain Childs’ Company, 5th Connecticut Regiment, Continental Army, 1777-1780.

Peter Marshall Douglas

 

Elected February 12, 1998

Admitted on the service of:

 

Joseph Douglass, II (December 1747 – December 1816)

Captain, 14th Battalion, Caroline County, Maryland Militia, 1776.

Wellington Ballard Eler

 

Elected December 11, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

Christopher (Christoffle) H. Stryker (September 1761 – October 1805)

Private, Captain Ten Eyck’s Company, 1st Regiment, Somerset County, New Jersey Militia, 1777-1780.

William Frantz Herr, III

 

Elected September 11, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

Henry Slagle (August 1735 – February 1811)

 

Lieutenant Colonel & Colonel, 3rd Battalion, York County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1775; Colonel, 8th Battalion, York County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1778.

Brendan Stallard Kelley

 

Elected September 11, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

Benjamin Clark (1745 – after 1815)

 

Service in Captain Kilgore’s Company, 8th Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Army, 1777-1778. Wounded at Bound Brook, 1777. Wounded on march to Fort McIntosh, 1778.

Edward Richards Winslow Kellogg

 

Elected September 11, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

Samuel Kellogg (June 1734 – September 1788)

 

Member, Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 1775; Captain, 2nd Regiment, Berkshire County, Massachusetts Militia, n.d.

David Dwight Lawson, Jr.

 

Elected February 12, 1998

Admitted on the service of:

 

Jacob Van Meter, Sr. (March 1723 - ____)

 

Member, Committee of Observation, Washington, County, Pennsylvania, 1775; Captain, General George Rogers Clark’s expedition, 1782.

Timothy Scheetz Longman

 

Elected September 11, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

Michael Tremper, Sr. (March 1745 – 1786)

 

Private, Colonel Brinkerhoff’s Battalion, Dutchess County, New York Militia, n.d.

Henry Stuckert Miller, Jr.

 

Elected November 13, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

George Graff (October 1747 – February 1835)

 

Captain, 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, Northampton County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1776-1777.

Colin Jackson Stevens

 

Elected May 14, 1998

Admitted on the service of:

 

John Scudder (January 1738 – February 1786)

 

1st Lieutenant, 6th Company, 2nd Battalion, & 2nd Company, 3rd Battalion, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1776.

Nicholas Perient Trott

 

Elected December 11, 1997

Admitted on the service of:

 

Jacob Powles (June 1756 – June 1836)

 

Private, 9 enlistments, Bergen County, New Jersey Militia, 1776-1781.

 

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