He then fought with General Washington against the British. He was captured at Trenton, NJ by the American soldiers, sometime in the 1770's. Was a Hessian soldier hired by the British from the King of Prussia to fight the American colonists. GEORGE FAZENBAKER -Was from Hesse-Castle, Germany. Edward and Isaac Duvall, were killed in battle, their Lots were awarded to Gabriel Duvall and passed on to Benjamin. & Buried on Frazee Ridge, Selbysport.& His brothers, Lts. BENJAMIN DUVALL - (1746-1820) - Prince George's County, Maryland Militia.& Capt.Beall's Company.& Enlisted. Buried in the Old Salisbury, Pennsylvania Cemetery. Margaret Cupler proved his service and joined D.A.R. Moved to Maryland before 1790, around the New Germany area. in August 1967.ĬASPER DURST - Capt.Daniel Cresap's Company, Washington County, Md. The grave is marked by a fieldstone as well as a government marker. He is buried in the Drane German Lutheran Cemetery at Accident,MD. JAMES DRANE (1755-1828)- Prince George's Company, Maryland Militia. He is interned at the Grantsville Cemetery. George Washington on his memorial expedition in "Crossing the Delaware " and surprising the British with the capture of about 2,000 Hessian soldiers.Being a boy of 8, he belonged to no unit or company and his name was on no roll. ROBERT COMPTON (1768-1856)- Robert served in the Revolutionary War under Gen. He has a family marker as well as a government marker. He is buried on his farm, " Rich Hill " on the Old Morgantown Road east of Selbysport. Benjamin received a pension of $4 per month. 1780, he again volunteered and helped to capture and burn a British transport in the Narrows also a man of war tender and two sloops. Randell, he helped capture an enemy picket of 36 men on Staten Island. After this term of service he volunteered "to go privateering." His company took a British Brig by surprise, then met and captured a schooner, taking 100 prisoners. He "received three balls " in one of his legs in battle. In 1779 he again enlisted in a "troop of horse " at Woodbridge,NJ. He has a government marker.īENJAMIN CODDINGTON (1759-1840) - Enlisted in 1776 in Capt. Buried in the Friend Graveyard, Friendsville, Md. THOMAS CASTEEL - 1stBattalion, Bedford Co. (According to the Glades Star of 1947 he enrolled at Oldtownin Capt. The Ashby family has tried several times to obtain a government marker, but due to lack of proof have been unable to get one. The Ashby family erected a marker to his memory,and that of his wife, Sarah Williams Ashby. WILLIAM ASHBY - Skipton Company.Died 1803.& Buried on his farm Piney Bottom, (Underwood Cemetery) south of Oakland. Buried in the McCarty Church graveyard, south of Oakland on Monte Vista Road. However, after the Revolutionary War, among our early settlers were a number of veterans, whose names, so far as we have records of them, are included in the following list: GARRETT COUNTY VETERANSĮNSIGN WILLIAM ARMSTRONG - (1763-1848) - 7th Pa. Francis Deakins surveyed 4,165 fifty acre lots 2,575 were already allotted to the veterans, but only two of them (Dudley Lee and Richard Tasker) settled in the Garrett County area where most of the lots were located. By act of the Maryland General Assembly of 1777, the State lands "Westward of Fort Cumberland " were reserved for Maryland soldiers of the Continental Army.
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