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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
David was the son of Adam Deshler, one of the first settlers.
He grew up in Whitehall Township, in his father's stone house.
In 1767 he bought land in Salisbury Township from James Allen, on which he erected a grist mill and a sawmill. This was an early part of the present-day city of Allentown, where David Deshler built the first house.
He lived in a large stone house, now called Fort Deshler or Deshler's Blockhouse. Like Fort Ralston's stone blockhouse in East Allen Township, it is no longer standing.
He was the Lieutenant Colonel of the Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolutionary War and a patriot of Egypt, Pennsylvania.
"Colonel David Deshler was beyond doubt the most substantial resident of Northampton town [now Allentown] in his time, and his influence helped very materially in the successful culmination of the War for Independence."
(1776) David attended the proceedings of the Provincial Conference in Philadelphia in June 1776, where he was made Deputy of the election for the second division of the county held at Allentown.
(1777) He was made a sublieutenant.
(1778) David was made the Commissary of Supplies of Northampton County.
(1780) Congress was unable to pay for anything, David Deshler and his colleague and neighbor, Captain John Arndt, advanced their own money to pay for Northampton County's quota of army supplies.
(1787) David was a member of the 1787 Pennsylvania convention that ratified the United States Constitution.
Source: Excerpted from the Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 6.
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