Officer History
 
  Date   Rank   Unit   Military Action   Position   Status
  Dec 1774   Ensign   York County Associators        
 
  Apr 1775 - Mar 1776   First Lieutenant   Pennsylvania Battalion of Riflemen   Boston / Cambridge Campaign    
 
  25 Jun 1775   First Lieutenant   Pennsylvania Battalion of Riflemen        
 
  29 Jul 1775   First Lieutenant   Pennsylvania Battalion of Riflemen   Charlestown Neck, Mass    
 
  18 Aug 1775   First Lieutenant   2nd Continental Regiment        
 
  27 Aug 1775   First Lieutenant   2nd Continental Regiment   Ploughed Hill, Mass    
 
  Oct 1775   Captain   2nd Continental Regiment        
 
  1 Jan 1776   Captain   1st Continental Regiment        
 
  1 Jul 1776   Captain   1st Pennsylvania Regiment        
 
  27 Aug 1776   Captain   1st Pennsylvania Regiment   Long Island    
 
  26 Dec 1776   Captain   1st Pennsylvania Regiment   Trenton, NJ (I)    
 
  3 Jan 1777   Captain   1st Pennsylvania Regiment   Princeton    
 
  13 Mar 1777   Major   1st Pennsylvania Regiment        
 
  11 Sep 1777   Major   1st Pennsylvania Regiment   Brandywine    
 
  4 Oct 1777   Major   1st Pennsylvania Regiment   Germantown    
 
  28 Jun 1778   Major   1st Pennsylvania Regiment   Monmouth    
 
  1 Jul 1778   Lieutenant Colonel   2nd Pennsylvania Regiment        
 
  21 Nov 1778   Lieutenant Colonel   2nd Pennsylvania Regiment         Resigned
 
 
  Post-War Offices Held
 
  Date From   Date To   Office Name   Notes
  November 1780   Dec 1783   High Sheriff, York County, PA  
 
  7 October 1783   23 October 1785   Representative, Pennsylvania General Assembly , York County, PA  
 
  May 1786   1801   Prothonotary, York County, PA   duties to include Clerk of Common Pleas and Orphans Court, and of Quarter Sessions
 
  27 November 1789   2 September 1790   Delegate, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, York County, PA  
 
  1794   1801   Supervisor, Federal Revenue, Pennsylvania  
 
  1821   1824   Prothonotary, Perry County, PA  
 

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