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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
behind the Congruity Presbyterian Church on Fennelltown Rd
best parking for the cemetery is on Congruity Rd
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
The patriot's grave is in the east section of the cemetery. There are no plot or row markers
Author: Howard Edwin Black
Samuel Borland was born in 1748 at Ireland, and immigrated to Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
At the start of the war, he enlisted as a lieutenant in the Captain Evan Cessna’s Third Company of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cessna’s First Battalion of the Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Militia. The First Battalion became the Second Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Line. Borland was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.
After the war, he married Lydia Cary Gregg, at Bedford County. They were the parents of six children: Rachel, John, Samuel, Matthew, Mary and Andrew. They moved to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
Samuel Borland died July 15, 1811 at the age of 63 years. Lydia Cary Gregg Borland died September 15, 1817. They were buried side by side at the Congruity Cemetery, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Service source: Published Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Vol. 14, Pg. 657-658.
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