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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Soldier
Birth: 1752 Death: 25 Sep 1815 / Hamilton / OH
Additional References:
Hamilton County Recorder’s Office. Veterans’ Graves Registration Cards. (Cards are located at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.)
Spouse: Mary Ann Hoffman Children: Sarah; Ann; Elizabeth;
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Author: Michael J. Blum
Born in 1752 and later served served for six years in the British Army in the West Indies, In 1776 he joined the Corps of Riflemen, under “Colonel Bulter’s Regiment in the Pennsylvania Line, in 1777 for and during the War” according to his affidavit of October 9, 1848. He was in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, and Germantown under Captain Andrew Geyer’s Company, in Colonel Matlock’s Regiment. Served as a Private, a Corporal and a Sergeant of Infantry and Artilliary, was also in engagements at Staten Island, Amboy, new Brunswick and Newark where he was wounded in the leg. He Married Mary Ann Hoffman on January 28, 1776 in the Gloria Beh (Swedes) Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They had daughters Sarah (Mar Sendling), Ann (Mar Yetter), Elizabeth (Mar Rhinard). Mary was with him for a time in the Army and served as a cook. Pension Application # W 3324. Revolutionary War Soldiers, Buried in Hamilton County, Ohio”; Little Miami Publ. Co. Milford, Ohio, 2010. By DAR, Cincinnati Chapter. He Died in Hamilton County, September 25, 1815, Buried at Gard Cemetery, aka McCrea Cemetery, NS North Bend Road, W of College View Place, Row 8, Grave 91. Gershom Gard set aside a large portion of his farm as a cemetery when he died. More than two-hundred of his family and neighbors were buried there, it is nearly extinct. { Works Progress Administration (WPA) Revolutionary War Veteran burial records in Ohio; Cincinnati-Hamilton County Public Library, History/Genealogy department.}
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