. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . on,Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown, wherenearly all his company were killed or taken prison-ers, and where he received on the field personalcommendation from Gen. Washington for his con-duct in the action, and at his request he was sentto Philadelphia to prepare material for the siegeof Yorktown. In April, 1779, he was detachedwith his company to join Gen. John Sullivansexpedition against the Indians, and suggested toGen. James Clinton the idea of damming the out-let of Otsego lake, by which means the water wasraised sufficiently to convey
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . on,Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown, wherenearly all his company were killed or taken prison-ers, and where he received on the field personalcommendation from Gen. Washington for his con-duct in the action, and at his request he was sentto Philadelphia to prepare material for the siegeof Yorktown. In April, 1779, he was detachedwith his company to join Gen. John Sullivansexpedition against the Indians, and suggested toGen. James Clinton the idea of damming the out-let of Otsego lake, by which means the water wasraised sufficiently to convey the troops by boats toTioga point. In 1783 he retired to the cultivationof his farm, and declined the chair of mathematicsin the University of Pennsylvania, saying that aslong as he commanded men he would not returnto flogging boys. In 1784-7 he was engaged ascommissioner to run the boundary-lines of Penn-sylvania, and he was also interested in the com-pletion of the western termination of the Masonand Dixon line, although he was not a commis-. PORTER PORTER sioner. He was made brigadier-general of Penn-sylvania militia in 1801, was subsequently major-general, and in 1809 appointed surveyor-general,and held Iliis post until his death. Owing to theinfirmities of age he declined the offices of briga-dier-general in the U. S. army and secretary ofwar in President Monroes cabinet, which wereoffered him in 1812-13.—His son. David Kitten-house, governor of Pennsylvania, b. near Norris-tiiwn. Montgomery co., Pa., 31 Oct., 1788; d. inllarrislmrg. Pa., ii Aug., 1867, was educated atNorristown academy, and, when his father was ap-pointed surveyor-general, became the latters sec-retary. lie studied law, but abandoned it. owingtn impaired health, and removed to Huntingdoncounty, where he engaged in the manufacture ofiron, was interested in agriculture, and introduceda fine stock of cattle and horses into the served in the legislature in 1S1!(, was madeprothonotary in 1821, st
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