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Daniel Burkhart/Burchart/Burkhardt was commissioned as Captain of one of the Companies when the German Battalion was organized in the summer of 1776. At the reorganizing of the Battalion on 7 April 1777, Daniel Burkhart was promoted to the rank of Major. He commanded a company while wintered at Valley Forge. Major Burkhart continued in active service with the Battalion fulfilling the charge to subdue the Indian tribes on the Pennsylvania-New York frontier.
At the end of his three-year assignment, Burkhart resigned from his commission on 2 July 1779. His resignation was accepted by General George Washington on 3 July 1779.
Major Daniel Burkhart was listed in the ancestry of President Dwight David Eisenhower. No spouse is listed, only one daughter: Judith. Daniel Burkhart was born about 1740 and died after 18 March 1788, around Augusta, Virginia.
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