Loughrey's Defeat

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Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Map (LOC)
...rendezvoused at Carnahan's Blockhouse, eleven miles west of Hannastown....

Excerpt Of Lt. Colonel Butler's Letter To Captain Mathews

Lieutenant Colonel John Butler To Captain Robert Mathews

Niagara   22 September 1781

I enclose you the muster roll of the 10th Company of Rangers... .  I also enclose you a list of articles which will be requisite for the farmers.

The Corps of Rangers being now completed to a battalion of ten companies, I should think the 10th
Company would be proper to the Lieutenant Colonel's, with a Captain-Lieutenant instead of a
Captain. However, I submit the whole to His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief. 

I have applied to Brigadier General Powell for leave for Captain Butler to go to Canada for a few weeks to settle bills for the payment of the clothing, arms, &c, for the Rangers lately arrived from England, as he, having transacted all the business, none will be so able to arrange them so well as him; and finally, settling his former accounts as Paymaster will require his being down a few weeks this fall.

*We learn from Detroit that Captain Joseph Brant, being advanced with a party some way ahead of Captain Thompson and Mckee, fell in with a party from Clarke's army, attacked and defeated them before Thompson and McKee got up to him. He killed 37 and made 64 of the rebels prisoners. This, I hope, will put an end to all Clarke's views in that quarter, and may probably subject him to the fate this party met with.
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British Library. Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Add MSS 21765, Correspondence with Officers
at Niagara, 1777-1784; National Archives of Canada, Haldimand Collection, microfilm reel number
A-682.

*Known as Lochry's Defeat

Pennsylvania Troops For Clark

Display At Fort Necessity In Pennsylvania

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Macomb's Letter Regarding Lochry's Defeat

Daniel Claus and family fonds : C-1478:

Image 661 and 662

Detroit  14th Sept. 1781

Dear Sir,

By letter from Captain McKee and Tomson [Thompson] dated 29th August 1781 Camp near the Ohio, we have the agreeable news of Captain Brant, having on the 26th ultimo, with about one hundred whites & Indians, taken fourteen Boats with troops provisions of a part of Colonel Clarks Army on their march from Fort Pitt to S. Dusky the whol amounting to one hundred and one. He, on this ocation [occasion] as usual, behaved with so much good generalship, that not one of the whole party escaped without the loss of a man on his side.

Colonel Lochry, Commandant of the party, six officers & thirty privates were killed in the action.  A Major Craigcraft, with eleven other officers of different ranks, & fifty-two private prisoners.  He is so particular in his return that he mentions the name & state/style of every person.

When the express left the camp, McKee and Thompson were pushing forward to join Brant with about seven hundred, who was then not more than three miles from the rear of Clark's Army, which the prisoners said did not exceed five hundred, and expected a reinforcement from Kentucky.

I communicate this intelligence to you because I think it will be pleasing to Sir John & you, and I hope it will make some amends for my not saying something to you before since my arrival here.

Mrs. Pfister is well & joins in best wishes to Sir Johns family & yours & that you believe me.

Your ___ friend and Humble Servant

John Macomb

Colonel Clause

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Also see: Francis Pfister And John Macomb Of Hoosick - Two of the King's Men, By Corinne Eldred

A Potpourri Of Blog Posts

A retrospective compilation from my six blogs:

Detour Through History is my first blog:


Murder of a Roark descendant, the Robert Maxwell Martin family
A Palm caricature
Kit Acklin, Texas Ranger 
Native born Great-Grandma Addie Was An Alien
Shared Ancestor with Herbert Hoover


From my "In Deeds" blog:


An Elvis Presley sighting in the Shelby Co., Tennessee, deeds.
Searching for property information about my childhood home led to the Jimmy Hoffa investigation by RFK
My ancestor, Christopher Acklin, was deposed in a case involving (explorer) Dr. Thomas Walker's land
Confederate General James Longstreet's connection to Michigan
Abraham Lincoln and the Gallatin Co., Illinois, deed


The Cameron Collections blog is more of a "one name study," including Camerons not related to me:

Alexander Cameron, step-father of a "Princess" 
My Dad, son of a Cameron


My Richmond family blog focuses on ancestors and descendants found in a lineage book by Joshua Bailey Richmond.  


Included in the Richmond & Connected Lineages blog:


Helen Pitt Douglass, wife of Frederick Douglass
My Mayflower lineage [Cynthia (Richmond) More and her father, Thomas Richmond]
Senator Charles Sumner (was beaten with a cane on the Senate floor)



Relatively Fiction ties in books with genealogical and/or historical events:


John Brown, Frederick Douglass and Detroit in this blog post
The connection between Mrs. Richmond and Edgar Allan Poe here
Mrs. Kenneth Price* mentioned in Madame Castel's Lodger
*My niece and nephew's great-grandmother


War Of 1812 Chronicles is my newest blog:


Hiram Cronk, the last survivor


As a finale, a picture of me and my Dad a few decades ago!

William Worthington, Revolutionary War Soldier & Lochrey's Massacre Survivor

My ancestor, William Roark, another Lochrey's Massacre survivor, provided an affidavit for William Worthington's Revolutionary War pension application.

The deposition of William Roark, taken at, the house of Michael Roark in the county of Gallatin and State of Illinois on the 14^th day of July 1832:

In the service of the State of Virginia; I belonged to Captain Catt’s company of drafted militia men, under it’s command of Col. Loughery. We marched from the county of (left blank) in the State of Virginia, in the month of June or July 1781 to Wheeling and join Brig. Gen Clark, but in descending the waters some distance below Wheeling, was ___ from this army and was overtaken by Col. Loughry and his corps until we met with a __ of Indians below the mouth of the Big Miami and was defeated by them. William Worthington was also taken prisoner but was separated …until about October when we again met in Detroit, both of us prisoners. We were then delivered over to the British .. by then (November or December) taken to an Island about forty miles above Montreal where we were kept as prisoners until June 1782 at which time he was sent to Montreal from which place I have always understood he made his escape, then October or November.

William Worthington's name is listed on a Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, historical marker. William Roark lived in Muhlenberg County before moving to Gallatin County, Illinois.

Additional information here.

Close Call At Lochry's Defeat

My 5th-great-grandfather, William Roark, was captured in the military engagement known as Lochry's Defeat. All of the patriots were either killed or captured. Since this incident occurred in August of 1781 and my 4th great-grandfather, Michael Roark, was not born until 1793, the fact that William Roark was captured rather than killed means everything to those of us who are his descendants.

Last week we visited the site of the massacre in Dearborn County, Indiana. A few days earlier we went to Cleves, Ohio (near Cincinnati) where the massacre survivors were held by a contingent of British soldiers and their Indian allies who were enroute to Detroit.

Present Day Site of Massacre

Lochry's Defeat Article

Lochry Timeline