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Alexander Peebles Homestead (Drone Footage) located Cramer Road (maybe changed to Keefer Lane now) South Hampton Township, Shippensburg, PA

Historical Investigation into the Cumberland County Militia conceived from the Pennsylvania Militia Act of 17 March 1777. Who were they and what did they do? Special thanks to the following: The Augustus Lutheran Church office@augustustrappe.org ALC - Church Historian, Mr. Patrick O’Hara. Mike Zarret of Bloomsburg Towne Camera D. Stokes Piercy, Professor of Film, ETSU (Editing) The Jacobsburg Historical Society of Nazareth, PA Flag: 1802 color of the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. The Music utilized in the video is not mine: The Hessian Dragoons March - The Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drums Lied der hessischen Soeldner in Amerika, (A Song of the Hessian Soldier in America) - Wolfgang Roth We Were Soldiers - SGT MacKenzie Reference Material Article: The Pennsylvania Militia in 1777 by Hannah Benner Roach, 1964, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Book: The Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Volume III, 1958. Book: The Old Trappe Church, A Memorial of the Sesqui-Centennial Series of Augustus Lutheran Church, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1894.

Historical Investigation into the Cumberland County Militia conceived from the Pennsylvania Militia Act of 17 March 1777. Who were they and what did they do? Music: Voyage to America Flag: (Modern/Current) Cumberland County, PA Flag EXHIBITS: (1) 202 Letters from George Washington to the Board of War https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%20Author%3A%22Washington%2C%20George%22%20Recipient%3A%22Board%20of%20War%22&s=1111211111&r=1 (2) Pennsylvania Heritage Online Website, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (a Pennsylvania Government establishment) https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Revolutionary-War-Militia-Overview.aspx (3) Book: Muster Rolls Relating to the Associators and Militia of the County of Cumberland (4) Book: Published by the State (Pennsylvania), Volume XII, Containing the proceedings of the Supreme Executive Council from May 21st, 1779 to July 12th, 1781 both days inclusive. (5) Book: Official History of the Militia and the National Guard of the State of Pennsylvania, Major William P. Clarke (1909) (6) The original Cumberland County Administrative and operational files (Cumberland County militia records, 1777-1783 appear on rolls 164 and 165): https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/psa/islandora/object/psa%3Arwam1. (7-9) Letters from George Washington to BG James Potter )a total of 26 Letters. Referencing BG James Potter. 7- https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%20Author%3A%22Washington%2C%20George%22%20Recipient%3A%22Potter%2C%20James%22&s=1111211113&r=1 8- https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-11-02-0583 9- https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Correspondent%3A%22Potter%2C%20James%22%20Correspondent%3A%22Washington%2C%20George%22&s=1111311111&r=1 (11) Book: The Revolution Remembered Eyewitness accounts for the War of Independence, edited by John C. Dann (12) Book: Frontier Rebels The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776, by Patrick Spero

Historical Investigation into the Cumberland County Militia conceived from the Pennsylvania Militia Act of 17 March 1777. Who were they and what did they do? Special thanks to the following: 1. Bill Dixon, Anthology Major and Archeological Technician 2. Mike Zarret of Bloomsburg Towne Camera 3. D. Stokes Piercy, Professor of Film, ETSU (Editing) 4. The Conococheague Inistitutue, Mercesburg PA (For letting me steal some of their living history photographs) 5. Northumberland County Historical Society, Sunbury, PA 6. The Jacobsburg Historical Society of Nazareth, PA Flag: Device (Benjamin Franklin) - The Pennsylvania Associators 1747-1777 The Music utilized in the video is not mine: "Comin' Thro' The Rye" by Bear McCreary References: 1. Pennsylvania Heritage Online Website - Cumberland County Militia https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Revolutionary-War-Militia-Cumberland.aspx 2. Book: Muster Rolls Relating to the Associators and Militia of the County of Cumberland 3. Book: Official History of the Militia and the National Guard of the State of Pennsylvania, Major William P. Clarke (1909) 4. Document: The Militia of Northumberland County During the Revolution, BY CHARLES FISHER SNYDER, Presented before the Society March 12, 1948, Downloadable/Digital: https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/api/collection/digitalbks2/id/14990/download

Historical Investigation into the Cumberland County Militia conceived from the Pennsylvania Militia Act of 17 March 1777. Who were they and what did they do?

Historical Investigation into the Cumberland County Militia conceived from the Pennsylvania Militia Act of 17 March 1777. Who were they and what did they do?