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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
1776, served in the company of Captain Jacob Mauser, commanded by Colonel Henry Haller
1776, served in the company of Captain James Crause, commanded by Colonel Balzer Chaer
1776, served in the company of Captain George Knappenberger, commanded by Colonel Stephen Balliet
1776, served in the company of Captain George Bieber, commanded by Colonel John Lindemuth
Additional References:
Rev War Pension file S22347
Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Rev War. Micropublication M881, roll 835. Washington: National Archives
Abstracts of Non-Issued Pensions, Montgomery County, Virginia, OB 25, pg 336
Spouse: Elizabeth Riffe Children: Michael; Margaret/Peggy; William Alum; Peter;
Peter Cline was born in 1756 in the Palatinate Region of Germany, married Elizabeth in about 1778 in Virginia, and died sometime after 1832 (about 1843) in Logan County, Virginia.
The known children of Peter and Elizabeth are:
Michael was born in about 1778 in Virginia and died in 1860 in McDowell County, Virginia.
John was born in about 1780.
Sarah was born in about 1785 and died in 1865 in Bland County, Virginia.
Jacob "Rich Jake" was born in about 1790 in Montgomery County, Virginia, and died in 1858 in Logan County, Virginia.
William “Alum Billy” was born in about 1792 in Montgomery County, Virginia. He married Hannah Clevenger in 1818 in Floyd County, Kentucky, and died in 1868 in Logan County, Virginia.
Margaret “Peggy” was born in about 1793.
An unnamed daughter was born in about 1797.
Peter “Heck” was born in about 1800 in Montgomery County, Virginia. He married Mary Smith on 13 February 1820 in Floyd County, Kentucky, and died on 30 April 1892 in Gilbert Creek, Mingo County, West Virginia.
Peter was an immigrant from the Palatinate region of Germany. It is unknown whether Peter emigrated by himself or with his family.
He filed a Revolutionary War pension application in 1832 in Montgomery County, Virginia. Listing service in the Militia 1774 -1776 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and enlisted with Captain Henry Miller in the 12th Pennsylvania Regiment in 1776, and was in the Battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, and Germantown, Princeton, and White Marsh, then marched to the mouth of the Schuylkill and on to winter quarters at Valley Forge.
After serving in the Continental Army, Peter left Berks County, Pennsylvania, for Virginia. His migration to Virginia occurred between the years 1778 and 1786. Peter and Elizabeth eventually settled in Montgomery County, Virginia, near the area of modern Radford by the year 1786.
Peter is listed on many of the records of Montgomery County, Virginia, including court, land, and tax records through 1811. Around 1811, Peter Cline migrated with his family to the Virginia/Kentucky border region along the Tug River, settling on a Creek is known today as Peter Creek.
On 5 January 1820, he appears in an affidavit for his son Peter, Jr. to be married in Floyd County (later Pike County), Kentucky, and in the 1830 Pike County, Kentucky census and indicates in his 1832 Revolutionary War pension application that he was a resident of Pike County, Kentucky. Peter's son Michael is listed in the 1830 Logan County census with brothers Jacob, William, and Peter, Jr. Logan County bordered Pike County along the Tug River. By 1840, Peter is living with his son, Jacob "Rich Jake" Cline, as Peter and his wife Elizabeth are enumerated in the household of Jacob in the 1840 Pike County, Kentucky census.
Family tradition holds that the Patriot died in 1843. He is reportedly buried around Delorme, Mingo County, West Virginia, near Freeburn, Kentucky.
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