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Greathouse of Lancaster County, PA Do you have any Greathouse kith and kin who resided in Lancaster County, PA? If so, please join us in our efforts to better document the Greathouse kith and kin who lived in this county, by sending your additions and corrections to Greathouse Point. 1746, Jul 8 - Military: Peter Goodhouse, Captain Deimer's Company "Capt. John Deimer's Return Of His Company Specifying the Day of Each Man's Inlistment, &c, Sept'r, 1746." The companies commanded by Captains Trent, Shannon, Deimer and Perry, were recruited under authority of a proclamation issued by Governor George Thomas, dated June 9, 1746, reciting the King's orders of the ninth of April, to raise four hundred men within the Province of Pennsylvania, to be employed in concert with the regulard forces in the immediate reduction of Canada. The instructions for recruiting, together with a copy of Capt. Shannon's commission will be found in Pa. Archives, First Series, Vol. I, pages 688, 689. These companies went into winter quarters at Albany, N. Y., 1746-1747, and were finally discharged October 13, 1747, "the late intended expedition against Canada having been by his Majesty laid aside for the present." [Votes of Assembly, vol. IV, page 50 and 71, Col. Records, vol. V, 127.] [Directed to be raised June 4, 1746.] Captain - John Deimer [Name, age, where born, date of enlistment and occupation.] Goodhouse, Peter; age 19 [born about 1727]; date of enlistment: July 8; laborer. Footnotes:
Sources: Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Vol. 2, Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the Province of Pennsylvania. 1744-1764. Page: 419d - 420. View @ Fold3 Pennsylvania Archives, Series 5, Vol. 1, Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the Province of Pennsylvania. 1744-1765. Page: 6 - View @ Fold3 . Page 7 - View @ Fold3 William Watts, Hart Davis, History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania: from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Volume 3, Edition 2, Editors Warren Smedley Ely, John Woolf Jordan, The Lewis Pub. Co., 1905. Original from the New York Public Library, Digitized Feb 7, 2008. Page 358, Johannes Deimer of New Providence, Lancaster County, PA. View @ Google Books Presbyterian Historical Society, Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches, Journal of Presbyterian history, Volume 7. Presbyterian Historical Society, 1914. Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized Feb 26, 2009. Page 129, 1914 Biography: Dr. John Jacob Diemer of Providence, PA in 1747. View @ Google Books |
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