Officers of the Flying Camp and Ranging Companies with Miscellaneous Muster Rolls – Berks County

Preface

[Among the Associators and Militia already printed are to be found Companies belonging not only to the Flying Camp, but also as Ranging Companies. Reference can therefore be made to them. Unfortunately, none of the records are complete, and so we can only give what are accessible.]

Berks County Battalion

Colonel: Henry Haller

Lieutenant Colonel: Nicholas Lutz, taken prisoner on Long Island.

Major: Edward Burd

Captains:

Jacob Graul
Joseph Hiester

Jacob Maurer

John Ludwig
John Old
— Douglass

Peter Decker, taken prisoner on Long Island

Lieutenant: John King, of Douglass’ company

Ensign: Nicholas Brown, of Hiester’s company

Source: Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, Associated Battalions and Militia, 1775-1783. Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Volume XIV, William H. Egle, ed., Harrisburg: E.K. Meyers, State Printer, 1888, pp. 756, 760.

Submitted by: Nancy.