Muster Rolls and Papers Relating to the Associators and Militia of the County of Berks

County Lieutenants

Jacob Morgan, Sen., May 22, 1777

Valentine Eckert, Jan’y 6, 1781

Berks County Associators

Battalions

• Colonel John Patton’s Battalion
• Captain John Lesher’s Company
• Captain Michael Furrer’s Company
• Captain George Miller’s Company
• Captain Michael Wolf’s Company

Officers of the Battalions, 1775-1776

Colonel Patton’s Battalion as it stood 25th January 1776

Major Gabriel Hiester’s Battalion

Captain Nicholas Scheffer’s Company of the First Battalion

Berks County Militia, 1777

• First Battalion
• Second Battalion
• Third Battalion
• Fourth Battalion
• Fifth Battalion
• Sixth Battalion

Berks County Militia, 1778

Berks County Militia, 1780

Return of the Field, Captains and Subaltern Militia Officers for Berks County, 27 May 1780

• First Battalion
• Second Battalion
• Third Battalion
• Fourth Battalion
• Fifth Battalion
• Sixth Battalion

Third Battalion

Names of those who marched from the several classes of militia of the companies named, August 11, 1780

Colonel Joseph Hiester’s Battalion

• Captain Charles Gobin’s Company
• Captain Ferdinand Ritter’s Company
• Captain Conrad Shirman’s Company
• Captain John Ludwig’s Company
• Captain Jacob Baldy’s Company
• Captain Henry Strouch’s Company

Guards for Prisoners of War

• Captain Peter Nagel’s Company
• Captain Conrad Geist’s Company
• Captain John Robinson’s Company
• Captain Charles Krause’s Company

Berks County Resolves, 1774

Proceedings of Committee

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

Miscellaneous Rolls of Associators and Militia: Berks County Battalion

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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.

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Submitted by: Nancy.