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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 1733 / / Germany Death: aft 1800 liv / Washington / MD
Qualifying Service Description:
Pvt - Capt William Heyser's Co., German Regiment, Continental Line, 23 Oct 1776 - 22 May 1977
Additional References:
PA Archives, 5th Series, Vol 3, pg 793-794
Muster Rolls of the Navy and Militia Rangers - 1775-1783 with List of Pensioners, 1898, pg 388-389
Richards, The PA German in the Rev War, pg 235
Need, The PA Germans in the Settlement of MD, pg 233-235
Grumbaugh, MD Recs, Vol 2, pg 343
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Author: Stephen Arthur Leishman
Simon (Vogler) Fogler was born in 1733 in Germany.
He married Elizabeth Brod in 1756 in Germany. Their son, Christian Folger, was born 4 November 1758 in Lancaster, MD, and died 28 March 1827 in Salt Creek, OH.
Simon Fogler served as a Private in Captain William Heyser’s Company, The German Regiment, Continental Line.
The German Battalion or German Regiment or 8th Maryland was an American infantry unit that served for about four and one-half years in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Authorized in May 1776 as an Extra Continental regiment, the unit was recruited from ethnic Germans from Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Continental Congress appointed Nicholas Haussegger to command the battalion, which initially organized in the strength of eight companies. While the unit assembled at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a 9th Company was added. The battalion fought at Trenton in December 1776, where its soldiers called out in German for the Hessians to lay down their arms. In all the Regiment fought in the eight engagements: Battle of Trenton (1776), Battle of Assunpink Creek (1777), Battle of Assunpink Creek (1777), Battle of Princeton (1777), Battle of Brandywine (1777), Battle of Germantown (1777), Battle of Monmouth (1778), and Sullivan Expedition (1779). The unit was disbanded January 1, 1781.
The Roll of Captain William Heyser’s Company, dated October 23, 1776 shows Private Simon Fogler present for duty. “His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Maryland, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 104.” It continues “Rank. Private. Regt. German. Disability. Severely wounded by a cannon ball, or grape shot, in his hip, which impedes him in his walking. When and where disabled: 1777, Germantown. Discharged April 1778. Remarks. Mustered, wounded November 1777; discharged April 1778. Evidence submitted by the District Court, complete.”
US Pension Roll, 1835, page 21, show Private Fogler “Pension, Act of June 7, 1785 from September 4, 1793, at $20.00 per annum: received $160,00”
Simon Fogler spent the last of his years in living in Hagerstown, MD. His grandson, Henry Fogler (1791 – 1860), would later serve as a Private in the War of 1812 with the 1st Regiment of the Ohio Militia.
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