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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Ranger
Birth: 1763 / / NJ Death: 1836 / Nicholas / KY
Qualifying Service Description:
Ranger, Capt John Hardin's company, Westmoreland County PA Militia
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
"Muster Rolls of the Navy and Line, Militia and Rangers, 1775-1783 with List of Pensioners, 1818-1832", edited by William Henry Egle, Maryland, pg iii, 221, 225,227
"Descendants of James Burden 1740-1806, James Whaley 1684-1750, Henry Talbott 1746-1819", Karl Rosenberg, pg 2
SAR #88419
PA Archives, 3rd Series, Volume XXIII, pg 229, 321, 335,
"Colnel William Crawford's Campaign Against Samdusky", C.W. Butterfield, pg 248
Author: JW Porter
Charles Burden was my 3rd Great Grandfather. There is evidence he was born in New Jersey in 1763. He married Ann Dugan about 1790, probably in Kentucky.
His service during the Revolutionary War is recorded in, “Pennsylvania Muster Rolls of the Navy and Line, Militia and Rangers, 1775-1783", as a Ranger on the Frontier in Capt. John Hardin’s Company, Westmoreland Co. PA. Militia, as is his brother’s, Samuel. Charles later fought in Capt. William Perry’s Company under Col. William Crawford in the campaign against Sandusky in 1782.
His military record may be found in “Vol. XXXIII PA. Archives, Third Series”, pages 229, 321, 335 and on page 248 in Colonel William Crawford’s “Campaign Against Sandusky” by C. W. Butterfield, 1783.
Following the War, Charles settled first in Bourbon Co, KY, where 3 of his 7 children were born. In about 1798, the family migrated to Nicholas Co, KY, where his remaining 4 children were born, including my 2nd Great Grandfather, Robert Henry Lee Burden, in 1804.
Charles died in Nicholas Co, KY, in 1837,surviving his wife by 22 years.
Charles’ father, James Burden, born about 1740 in New Jersey, also served in the Revolutionary War in Virginia. He was a farmer and a staunch Baptist and married twice. Charles, the oldest, had 8 brothers and sisters and 10 half brothers and sisters. James also died in Nicholas Co, KY, where a monument was erected on the James Burden Farm by Lafayette Chapter of the Ohio Society, Sons of the American Revolution and The Burden Family Assn. and names the male descendants of James including Charles with Charles’ military service.
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