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State of Service: DE
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: bef 1760 Newport / New Castle / DE Death: 04 Nov 1791 Ft Washington / Ohio Dist / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Paid taxes in New Castle 1779, 1780 and St George's 1781
Additional References:
Delaware Tax Lists New Castle Undred 1779, 1780, and St George's Hundred 1781
Bellas, Henry Hobart, compiler, Anderson, Enoch, Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, Volume XVI-XX, Personal Recollections of Enoch Anderson, an Officer of the Delaware Regiments in the Revolutionary War, Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1896, pg 61
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Author: Mitchell Brett Callaway
Inslee Anderson was born to William Anderson and Elizabeth Rosannah (Inslee) Anderson in New Castle County, Delaware in 1753. All of his four brothers also served in the Revolutionary War.
Joseph Inslee [SAR Patriot: P-103580] was a Major in the First and Third Regiments of the New Jersey Continental Line.
William was an Ensign in the New Jersey Line.
According to his brother Enoch, Inslee was a Cadet under the command of Colonel Thomas Proctor’s [SAR Patriot: P-274044] Fourth Artillery Regiment from Eastern Pennsylvania in the Continental Army prior to 11 September 1777. He fought at Brandywine and Germantown.
Following the Revolutionary War, he served and was killed at the ill-fated Battle of the Wabash under Major General Arthur St. Clair. Inslee was adjutant of Colonel George Gibson’s Second Levy Regiment of the East Pennsylvania Battalion in the U.S. Army.
Inslee married Mary McDonough in 1780 in New Castle, Delaware. She was the daughter of James McDonough, who was the father of Major Thomas McDonough [SAR Patriot: P-246127]. They had the following known children:
James McDonough was born in 1782 and married Rebecca [surname unknown].
Joseph was born about 1784 and married Sarah Cocke.
The Patriot was killed on 4 November 1791, along with 632 other American soldiers and is buried at the battle site in Fort Recovery. Inslee’s wife Mary (McDonough) died in 1786.
Sources:
Heitman, Francis B., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1873, Washington DC: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914, page 70
Ward, Christopher and Leon DeValinger, The Delaware Continentals, 1776-1783. Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1941
Lytle, Richard M, The Soldiers of America’s First Army, 1791, Maryland. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2004
Bellas, Henry Hobart, compiler, Anderson, Enoch, Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, Volume XVI-XX, Personal Recollections of Enoch Anderson, an Officer of the Delaware Regiments in the Revolutionary War, Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1896, page 61
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