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Bucks County was not unwavering in the cause of Liberty and Independence from Britain, but was divided primarily along ethnic, religious and geographic lines. The southern villages and townships in the county, closest to Philadelphia, had largely been settled by English Quakers, while the northern section of the county, adjacent to Northampton County had been settled primarily by German immigrants who were either Lutheran or Reformed.
While New Jersey and New York recruited numerous Loyalist troops, Bucks County is unique as being the only county in Pennsylvania that recruited Loyalists into service for the Crown. There was a regiment of Bucks County Volunteers and a Bucks County Light Dragoons Regiment that fought against the Patriots. These units were recruited in southern and central Bucks County, not from the northern townships.
The Quaker-influenced government of Pennsylvania adamantly refused to recruit county militia units. During the French and Indian War, some Pennsylvania counties, including Bucks County, set up their own militia system, termed Associators. The Associator units were all volunteers. They elected their own officers, and furnished their own weapons and ammunition. The Associators continued to function into the Revolution, since the militia was not organized in Pennsylvania until the summer of 1777.
Peter Ott volunteered to serve in the Bucks County Associators and was on the rolls of Captain Robinson’s Company in August 1775. While most of the Associator units did not see active combat, they served primarily as garrisons and reserves for the units of the Pennsylvania Line. The importance of their service is that they were genuine volunteers, not being forced to enroll under a Militia Act, as in most other colonies, and supplied their own weapons and ammunition.
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