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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
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Author: Richard Lee Shirey
Joseph Rench served by furnishing a team to draw cannon for Col. Stull’s battery on January 11. 1777 and by selling blankets per request of the Frederick County, Maryland Committee of Observation.
Joseph was born about 1724 and died before August 9, 1804 in Huntingdon, County Pennsylvania. He had three wives—Elizabeth Bear, Margaret Sheafer (m abt. 1760), and Barabara Tefern. He had the following children—
Peter (abt. 1764-July 1818) married Catherine
Daniel (-1815) married Susannah
Mattias Moyer – PA – Lower New Providence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Militia
Christian Frantz III – PA - Capt. Jon. Anspach, 3rd Company, 2nd Battallion, Berks County, Pennsylvania Militia
Leonhard Kern – NC - Guard at the Gaol of Salisbury, Rowan County, NC
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