CAPTAIN JOHN HEWSON’S COMPANY

This list for John Hewson's Company was supplied by Todd Fielding. It is readily available in the PA Archives Series. If you would like to read a biography of John Hewson, see my article located to the left in the menu under Kensington Biographies. Besides being America's first calico printer of textiles, he was also considered Kensington's Revolutionary War Hero. He is buried in the northwest corner of Palmer Cemetery, near the gate on the Montgomery Street side towards Memphis street. His marker in lying flat on the ground, sunken in some. His company of men, it is said, were made up from his workers at his textile works, as well as other locals in Kensington. While some of the names are familiar Kensington surnames for this period (Baker, Beidaman, Eyre, Fauns, Gosser, Painter, Pote, Sheets/Sheetz, Sorrick, Ties/Tees, Vaughan,  etc., many of whom were shipwrights and fishermen),  others still need to be researched.

From Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. XIII - Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, Associated Battalions and Militia, 1775-1783, Vol. I; edited by William H. Egle, M. D.; Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1896; pp. 705-707:

CAPTAIN JOHN HEWSON’S COMPANY

Muster roll of Captain John Hewson’s company, of, the Second Regiment of Foot, in the service of the United States, commanded by Colonel Benjamin G. Eyre, of the Second, Third, and Fourth classes of the city of Philadelphia Militia, of the State of Pennsylvania,

Captain. August 31, 1780. John Hewson.

Lieutenant. Daniel Bolman.

Ensign. Christopher Miller

Sergeants. George Death, app. August 10, 1780., Christian Sheets, app. August 10, 1780., Mark Winter, app. August 10, 1780.

Corporals. Jacob Shepherd, app. August 10, 1780; substitute., Christian Fauns, app. August 10, 1780; sick. Christian Greiner, app. August 10, 1780.

Drummer and Fifer. eorge Teis, app. August 10, 1780; substitute., Daniel Bolman, Jr., app. August 10, 1780

Privates:

James Bowden, August 10, 1780. ,

Jacob Beidaman, August 10, 1780. ,

Michael Youbst, August 10, 1780.,

Samuel Brown, August 10, 1780.,

Valentine Sorrick, August 10, 1780.,

John Millis, August 10, 1780.,

Nicolas Painter, August 10, 1780.,

Jonathan Paul, August 10, 1780.,

Daniel Sorrick, August 10, 1780.,

William Harrison, August 10, 1780.,

John Lufburrow, August 10, 1780.,

Philip Gosser, August 10, 1780; on guard.,

Jacob Painter, August 10, 1780; sick.,

Jacob Weaver, August 10, 1780; on guard.,

Michael Miltenberger, August 10, 1780.,

Leonard Agua, August 10, 1780; on command.,

Henry Darnol, August 10, 1780.,

Conrad Baker, August 10, 1780; substitute, not registered.,

Matthias Pote, August 10, 1780.,

Leonard Buck, August 10, 1780; on guard.,

Michael Rook, August 10, 1780.,

Adam Hoffman, August 10, 1780.,

John Fisher, August 10, 1780; on guard.,

William Keen, August 10, 1780; on guard.,

Frederick Kesler, August 10, 1780; on guard.

Andrew Way, August 10, 1780; on guard.,

John Flowers, August 10, 1780.,

James Humphreys, August 10, 1780.,

George Painter, August 10, 1780.,

Francis Crosby, August 10, 1780.,

William Gwinup, August 10, 1780.,

Elias Fisher, August 10, 1780; on guard.,

George Garlinger, August 10, 1780.,

Charles Edwards, August 10, 1780; substitute, not registered.,

Thomas Vaughan, August 10, 1780.,

Jacob Riffirt, August 10, 1780.,

Edward Green, August 10, 1780.,

George Streiper, August 10, 1780.,

Michael Baker, August 10, 1780.

 
August 31, 1780.  Mustered then Captain John Hewson’s company, as specified in the above roll.  Sam’l. Sterett, M. M. P. M.