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Author: Jerry Ray Sayre
Levin Hurley was born between 1755 and 1760, probably in Dorchester County, MD. It is through his being the administrator of Darby Hurley’s estate in 1807, and his disposing of some of Darby’s land in MD that we conclude that he was his son and not just an heir.
Landowners in Maryland often named their plots of land making it a bit easier to trace land being passed to family members or others. Plots named “End of All Strife” and “Water Passage” stayed in the Hurley family and were passed from father to son since the late 1600’s. (Source: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD)
Levin Hurley is listed as a Corporal in Capt. John Woodgate’s Company of Delaware Flying Camp under Col. Samuel Patterson. (Source: NARA – Rev War Rolls – Roll 29 Delaware) Patterson’s Flying Camp was formed in September of 1776.
After the British evacuation of Boston in March 1776, General George Washington met with members of the Continental Congress to determine future military strategy. Faced with defending a huge amount of territory from potential British operations, Washington recommended forming a "flying camp", which in the military terminology of the day referred to a mobile, strategic reserve of troops. Congress agreed and on June 3, 1776, passed a resolution "that a flying camp be immediately established in the middle colonies and that it consist of 10,000 men."
Delaware Flying Camp This unit was activated for only four months (Sep-Dec 1776) and had an enlistment of about 480. It was drawn from militia companies, the defensive forces normally used only within the state's borders. The Flying Camp was led by Col. Samuel Patterson, a miller from Christiana, DE, who had experience from the French and Indian War. (Source: NARA – Rev War Rolls – Delaware)
In early September 1776 the unit was sent to northern New Jersey to help repel the British invasion force on Staten Island. They attacked a fort and drove in the outer defensive forces, but they did not capture anything. They returned to Delaware when their out-of-state obligation ended on Dec 1, 1776.
Levin Hurley had moved to Ohio by 1807, when he was administrator of his father’s estate in Maryland. When Levin died in Clermont County, Ohio in 1815, his son Gilbert P. Hurley Sr. was his administrator. No grave has been found.
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