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Author: Roger Eastman Nelson
Philip Arndt was born in Franconia Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and was baptized in Indian Creek Reformed Church 27 January 1754. He was sixteen when his family removed to Williams Township, Northampton County. At the first call from the Committee of Safety for men to organize themselves into companies “to learn the art of war”, Philip Arndt became a volunteer member of the Associated Company of Williams Township, of which Peter Hay was captain. On 9 July 1776, he was appointed sergeant in the company of his cousin, Captain John Arndt, of the Flying Camp, and soon after marched with the battalion under Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Kechlein to join General Washington and his Army at Long Island. This company took part in the disastrous battle for Long Island on 27 August 1776, and still more disastrous one of Fort Washington on 6 November 1776. Philip Arndt was one of the 33 officers and men of Captain Arndt’s company that survived the latter battle and were mustered out 1 December 1776. Returning home he was again enrolled as a member of the company of Captain Peter Hay, Fourth Battalion, Northampton County Militia. Among the fragmentary returns preserved, he is found as an ensign in 1780 and as a lieutenant in 1782.
He married Mary Little of Carpentersville, New Jersey. Tragically she died at the birth of their only child, John Penn Arndt, 25 November 1780; from that date until his removal to Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania about 1800, his only permanent home was the old Arndt homestead in the village of Raubsville, Williams Township. It is known that his young son was raised by his grandparents, Abraham and Catharine (Reed) Arndt.
In the years that followed, Philip engaged in the construction of Durham boats at Durham Cove on the Delaware, and was owner and pilot of at least one of these shallow boats built to freight heavy cargo such as coal and pig-iron. This same type of boat transported Washington’s Army across the Delaware River Christmas Eve 1776.
When Philip’s son, John Penn, became of age, he joined his father in Wilkes-Barre where they engage in mercantile and manufacturing, including the construction of Durham boats for the navigation of the Susquehanna River. Philip died near the end of October 1804 of “the prevailing fever”.
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