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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Corporal / Civil Service / Patriotic Service
Author: Christopher Tobias Yohn
Henry Vanderslice was born March 9, 1726, in Providence Township, Montgomery (then Philadelphia) County, PA. His parents were Anthony Vanderslice and Martha Pannebecker Vanderslice.
Henry was a miller and a surveyor. He married Catharine Sassamanhausen on October 23, 1750, and they had 10 children. The family moved to Berks County, PA, in 1760.
Henry was elected Berks County Sheriff in 1775. On July 8, 1776, he assembled the citizens of Reading, PA, at the court house in Penn Square and read the Declaration of Independence to them.
At 51 years of age, Henry threw his services into the revolutionary cause. He headed a brigade of 12 wagons, 50 horses and 12 carters as wagon master and commissary to General Muhlenberg’s division of Washington’s army. The supplies he gathered were vital to the army at Valley Forge. In Henry’s wartime journal, he mentions riding with Generals Washington and Muhlenberg.
Henry died on February 12, 1797. Catherine died August 20, 1809.
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