Capt. Jeremiah Lochry

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Husband Capt. Jeremiah Lochry ¹

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           Born: Abt 1731
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           Died: 21 Jan 1824 - Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: [Father] Lochry (      -      )
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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Jeremiah Lochry

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Having settled in western Pennsylvania at a very early period, he shared largely in the toils and hardships and perils to which the pioneers of civilization in the Western country were subjected. He was one of the few who escaped the disastrous scenes of Braddock's defeat. In the year 1777 he acted as adjutant to a detachment of militia who were ordered to New Jersey from Westmoreland County, under the command of Col. Lochry, his brother. In this situation his merit as an officer soon attracted the attention of his superiors, and in the fall of the same year he was presented with a captain's commission in the regular service. In this capacity he acted during the whole Revolutionary war, being frequently engaged with the enemy, and always acquitting himself with honor and advantage to the cause of his country. Shortly after the close of the war, while engaged with a scouting party on the Allegheny River, a ball was fired at him by an Indian, which glanced from the barrel of his gun and lodged in his neck, and was the cause of an enormous tumor that afterwards grew from the wound.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 131.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 132.