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V/A stone inscription: "JOHN CRAIG - CAPT - 8 REGT - PA LINE - REV WAR - APR 27 1753 - MAR 3 1850"
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Author: Michael Edward Flood
Editor's note: There appear to be some errors in the service attribution in the biography vs. his pension application. No record of him being anything other than a Private.
John Craig enlisted as a private in the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Line. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in January 1776 and by July of the same year as a First Lieutenant. He served for three years.
He joined the Light Horse Brigade, where he served until the close of the War.
After the war, he was ordered to raise a company of 40 men, called Minute Men, to protect the frontier from the Indians. He was called Captain of Scouts and served many years in that capacity.
He was the commander of Fort Craige, where the town of Freeport is situated. He died in 1850, aged 90 years.
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