John Pershing, A Member Of The Lost Battalion

*Frederick Pershing (1724-1794) was a Huguenot from Alsace and immigrated to America in 1749. He moved to Western Pennsylvania in 1769 and settled on land in what is now Westmoreland County. *Ancestor of General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing

An Area Of Western Pennsylvania

His [Frederick's] younger brother John joined him in shortly after he moved to Westmoreland. John was a member of Captain Stokely's Company during the Revolutionary War and was killed during the Lochry Expedition in 1781.   [Indiana Library/Archives, Pershing family papers S0842]

The article by another Pershing descendant, **Edgar J. Pershing, in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XVI, Sept., 1928, No. 3, told the story of Lochry's Expedition in the Lost Battalion of the Revolutionary War, PA.  **Edgar J. Pershing also wrote The Pershing Family In America... .

John Pershing perished in the ambush of Lochry and his soldiers; he left no descendants.