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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: / / Germany Death: bef 12 Feb 1828 Rockhill Twp / Bucks / PA
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Author: John Thomas Parsons
John Frederick was born in Germany in 1721. After immigrating through Philadelphia, he settled in Bucks County, PA and began farming.
When the Revolution broke out, he enlisted in the Bedminster Township Company of PA Associators. Pennsylvania was unique among the colonies because it did not have a militia system. In each of the other colonies, each town, county, or other municipality was responsible for maintaining a company of militia. The value of an armed citizenry had become apparent during conflicts with the Indians during the 1600s and early 1700s. Pennsylvania, however, with a Quaker government that believed in pacifism,refused to adopt the militia system, believing that by good will, they could maintain peace with the Indians.
This belief crumbled during the French and Indian War and irate colonists, most of whom were not Quakers but Germans or Ulster Scots, decided to take matters into their own hands. They formed bands of volunteers, termed Associators, in all the counties of the colony. The Associators elected their own officers, supplied their own weapons and equipment and trained to a very high standard.
With the outbreak of the Revolution, the Associators again were the first to answer the call to arms. By 1777, however, Pennsylvania adopted the militia system of the other states, and the Associators were merged into militia units. John Frederick mustered into Capt Kechline’s Company in August of 1775. In December 1776, elements of the Bucks County Associators were called up to defend against any potential British crossing of the Delaware into Pennsylvania, and they then helped Washington in his crossing of the Delaware into New Jersey and the subsequent battles of Trenton and Princeton.
I’m proud of my ancestor John Frederick, because he came to the defense of his country early on in the conflict, and stood with her during some of the darkest days of the Revolution.
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