. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. f the War Department were destroyed by fire in 1800, and no particularsof his last service can be given. A printed list of officers from 1784 to 1789, said to have been made from officialsources, says that McDowell was appointed Cadet in the 1st Continental Infantry, August12, 1781, and ensign, same regiment, October 21, 1784, and carried that date of rank intothe U. S. Infantry regiment in 1789. There was no officer in the Army named Toomey or Tooney, 1784-1793 and there areno official records on file showing who comman
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. f the War Department were destroyed by fire in 1800, and no particularsof his last service can be given. A printed list of officers from 1784 to 1789, said to have been made from officialsources, says that McDowell was appointed Cadet in the 1st Continental Infantry, August12, 1781, and ensign, same regiment, October 21, 1784, and carried that date of rank intothe U. S. Infantry regiment in 1789. There was no officer in the Army named Toomey or Tooney, 1784-1793 and there areno official records on file showing who commanded the block-house mentioned during1788-1793. J. S. Pettit,Acting Asst. Adjutant General. A few days after the receipt of the above letter, while examining some old manuscriptspreserved in the safe of the librarian of the Carnegie Library at Pittsburg, we were sur-prised and delighted to discover, upon unfolding an old paper, that we held in our handsthe original manuscript of a report made by the very man concerning whom our previous &£JM*J**AJ&&~^G*fs+-. The above reads as follows Muster Roll of a Detachment of Troops in the Service of the United States Stationed at BigToomy from the first of June, 1793 To the first of July, 170,3. Block House under the Co nd of Serjeant Major John Capt. Cook R. Corps Capt. Pierce ArrlyCapt. Porter do Capt. Pikes doCapt. Sparks R. CorpsCapt. Butler do John MarstonGeorge SilverthornJohn PattersonMichael RoeWilliam CrummeyWilliam LollarWilliam SterlingNathaniel HerronGeorge GestJoseph HancockRichard CarterMichael WelchSulomon GaleIlrion HanlonJohn ChattertonJames WhiteMichael DingherEdward Suples 1 do hereby Certify thaHouse from the first c the above Mus:.y of June 1793 24th May, 1795 - Roll contains a true Statethe first day of July 1793. John ToomyJames MarstonGeur^e SilverthornJohn PattersonMichael RoeWilliam CrummeyWilliam LollarWilliam SterlingNathaniel HerronGeorge GestJoseph HancockRichard CarterMichael WelchSolomnn GaleBr
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