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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 1750 Lykens / Dauphin / PA Death: aft 1815 Lykens / Dauphin / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
5th Class 4th Batt Lancaster/PA Militia. Capt martin Weaver Co. Colonel Rodgers Regt
No record found in Find-a-Grave on 15 Sep 2020 - record showed cemetery as "Hoffman Church"
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Author: Charles W. Riegle, Sr.
John Harman (Harmon/Hermann) was listed as a Private 5th Class in Captain Martin Weaver’s Company, Fourth Battalion of Lancaster County Militia of Colonel Rodgers Regiment and fought at the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown, along with his brothers David and Jacob. John also served as a Sergeant in Capt. Martin Weaver’s Co in April 1781 (page 1008 in Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, 1906 Edition, Vol VII, pages 1-1150) After he was discharged, he married Anna Maria (unknown last name) and they had three children, Catharina, George and Johannes while living in Lykens Township, Dauphin Co., PA. Their daughter Catharina married John Daniel Riegel on Nov. 29, 1803 in Lykens, Dauphin, PA. Anna Maria died in 1797 and John remarried Elizabeth (unknown last name), who bore him 7 more children, including 2 sets of twins, by the time of her death in 1815.
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