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     French and Indian War Rolls have records of Jared Robinson as having served in the campaigns of 1755 to 1759 as a Private and later as a Corporal.

    Jared Robinson enlisted in the service of the Revolutionary army in 1776.

     He was a Lieutenant for 18 months under Colonel Meigs and Captain Barker of Connecticut.  At Hartford Connecticut on October 29, 1779, he received a captains commission, granted by Jonathan Trumbull, Captain, General and Commander-in-chief of the State of Connecticut in America.

     On March 4, 1820, Jared applied for a pension under the Act of March 18, 1818.  His claim was allowed.  Age at date of application was given as 73 years (Also stated as 76 years).  Residence at that time was Oneida County, NY.

     Last payment made at $20.00 per month was on September 4, 1826 to Amos and Samuel Willets - Attorneys for pensioner, who was alive and residing in Windham, Luzerne Co. PA. 

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     In August of 1779, Chandler Robinson served under Sergeant Eli Moreltrif for 1 month.  In July and August 1780, he served as seaman for three months.  Privateer.

     Chandler and his father Jared and Jared's father, Thomas are, so tradition has it, three who participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

    Chandler applied for a pension on September 4, 1832 and his claim was allowed.

    Thomas Lewis was a soldier during a part of the Revolutionary War; was in the Northern Army under General Montgomery; helped to build a bridge over Lake Champlain; also the Fort of Ticonderoga.  The lumber of that bridge is now [1871] being raised, after laying in the water nearly 100 years, and is being sawed into lumber for county use.

    Afterwards he was at the battle when Danbury was burned, and caught General Wooster when he was shot and fell from his horse in that battle.  These facts show that he was an active Whig, and one who did good service to his country in the time of her greatest need-being loyal and true.

    In 1777, Joseph was in the detachment of Colonel Dorrance up the Susquehanna.  When the British and Indians advanced upon Wyoming, he joined Capt. Bidlack's company, was in the battle, July 3, 1778, and captured by the Indians.  "He was taken with Lebbens Hammond and many others to "Bloody Rock", where they saw one after another of their friends and fellow captives dispatched by the tomahawk of the relentless Queen Esther, while the savages danced with hideous orgies around the inhuman spectacle.  Hammond and Elliott by a concerted effort, made while the Indians were attracted by the struggles of some of their robust victims, broke loose from their captors and escaped, unpursed, however, some three or four Indians followed hard upon the footsteps of each.

     Elliott, whose flight was through the open flats, athletic and urged on by the love of life and pursued by certain death should they overtake him, fled with the speed of the wind; and although the distance was not to exceed some 300 or 400 yards, gained so much upon his pursuers as to enable him, by dint of throwing himself headlong down the bank of the river, and swimming and diving to the utmost of his strength and power to have reached some 50 yards out into the stream before the Indians appeared on the bank.

    Observing them in the act of preparing to shoot, he sunk himself beneath the water, and was fired upon when he came to the surface.  A bullet  struck him in the left shoulder, inflicting a grievous wound.  Being compelled to steady his wounded arm, dangling by his side, with his right hand he swam to shore and took shelter behind a tree a moment to recover breath.  His wound bled so profusely that his clothes became a burden; but he at length arrived at Wilkes-Barre fort, where his wound was dressed.

    No sooner had he recovered from his wound, than he again entered the service.  On Sullivan's advance into the Indian country, a line of expresses was established to connect with Wyoming.  Joseph Elliott and John Carey were selected for this duty.  In this arduous undertaking, he was exposed to great hardships - drenched with rain, out by night and day, sleeping in the woods when sleep he could, sometimes hungry and often cold, after eighty days' service he was taken sick and barely recovered.

    In 1782, Mr. Elliott was second in command of the party going in pursuit of the Indians, who had carried away Mrs. Roswell Franklin and children.  In the engagement which followed at Lime Hill, he was at the front and his marksmanship effectual.

Revolutionary War, no notes.

Source:
        Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 1770-1800. Vol. 1
By: Clemment F. Haverly
Published by: Bradford Star Print, 1913, Towanda PA.

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