The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Birth: 13 Mar 1751 / Somerset / NJ Death: 01 Aug 1806 Portsmouth / Scioto / OH
Qualifying Service Description:
Private in the Somerset County, NJ Militia
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Roster of Rev War soldiers buried in Ohio. Wilbur R. Branthoover, compiler. Veterans Affairs, Ohio. Reprinted by OHSDAR. 1929
“Official Register of the Officers and Men in the Rev War, New Jersey.” Adjutant-General’s Office. Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Rev War, Trenton, NJ, Wm. T. Nicholson & Co, Printers 1872. “Printed by authority of the Legislature.” William S. Stryker, Adjutant General, pg 596
The cemetery is located on the west side of Diehlman Branch Road (County Road 114) about 0.7 miles north of its intersection with Ohio State Route 73.
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Parents: Francis and Mary Fort. Came with his family from N. J. in 1796, and settled first at Alexandria at mouth of Scioto River, afterward moved to Pond Creek, where he died. Justice of the Peace for a time