Philip
Longstreth
Revolutionary War Soldier
Indian Fighter
Pennsylvania Pioneer
A Short History of His Life and Military Career
Written by Dean Phillips
(Fourth Great Grandson)
June 2014
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Pedigree Chart of Dean Phillips father, Robert Hilton Phillips showing
relationship to Philip Longstreth
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PHILIP LONGSTRETH HISTORY
“….only once at home during the whole period.”1 This declaration by Philip Longstreth
regarding his service as a Captain in the Militia from 1780 to 1783 exemplifies the citizen soldier
of the American Revolutionary Era. Philip began his military career at the age of 15 against the
Delaware and Shawnee Indians in eastern Ohio in 1764. Helping to settle western Pennsylvania
for the next 11 years kept him in the forefront of the struggle against the Indians. Then from
1775 to 1780 he participated first in a militia and then as a soldier of the Continental army in the
American Revolution. He manned a cannon at the pivotal battle of Saratoga, hauled wood, food,
and ammunition by wagon and pack horse during Saratoga, Valley Forge, and Morristown. He
also participated in the battles of White Plains, Monmouth, and Dunmore’s Campaign. He was
with Sullivan’s Campaign into upstate New York in 1779. He epitomizes the sacrifice and effort
required of the Revolutionary Era soldiers. His wife Salome epitomizes the struggles of the
wives left behind while their husbands went to war.
Philip Longstreth was born July 22, 1749 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Martin and
Abigail (Cowenhower) Longstreth. He lived his first 11 years in Bucks County. About 1760 his
father moved from Bucks County to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. However, they only
lived there one year before they moved on to Bedford County, Pennsylvania. They were in
Bedford County a short time before they had to escape back to Cumberland County, about 1762.
Here they stayed until his father and Philip joined Captain William Piper’s Company and
Colonel Bouquet’s Regiment and campaigned against the Shawnee and Delaware Indians in
Eastern Ohio.
“.…the great Indian war under Pontiac. The tribes leagued together and rose to drive the
English into the sea. All the small posts of the interior were captured from the English,
and the frontiers swept with fire. The two great forts, Detroit and Fort Pitt, alone withstood the
assailants, and both were reduced to extremity. Pontiac himself, with the tribes of the Lakes,
beleaguered Detroit, while the Delawares and Shawanees, with some of the Wyandottes, laid
siege, in their barbarous way, to Port Pitt, or Pittsburgh. Other bands of the same tribes
meanwhile ravaged the frontiers of Pennsylvania, burning houses, murdering settlers, laying
waste whole districts, and producing an indescribable distress and consternation.
This is the point where the ensuing narrative begins. Happily, for the distracted borders and the
distressed garrison, a gallant Swiss officer, Henry Bouquet, then commanded at
Philadelphia, and he was ordered to march, with what troops he could collect, to the relief of
Fort Pitt...”
“….Col. Bouquet’s expedition was to proceed altogether by land, and was on that account
attended with great difficulties. His men were to penetrate through a continued depth of woods,
and a savage unexplored country; without roads, without posts, and without a retreat if they
failed of success. When once engaged in these deserts, they had no convoy, nor any kind of
assistance to expect. Everything was to be carried with them— their ammunition, baggage,
tools, stores, and provisions necessary for the troops during the whole expedition….”2
1
Sworn by Philip Longstreth before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Fayette County, January 9, 1833
Pennsylvania, U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, p. 3
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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of Bouquet's Expedition AGAINST THE OHIO INDIANS In 1764, WITH PREFACE by FRANCIS
PARKMAN and A Translation of Dumas' BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GENERAL BOUQUET, CINCINNATI, OHIO, THE
ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY, 1907 p. 27
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The army decamped from Fort Pitt on Wednesday, October 3, 1764 and began their march. On
October 17th they held a peace council with the Indians. The threat of force convinced the
Indians to agree to peace and surrender the 300+ white prisoners they had acquired in their raids
over the proceeding months. 306 white prisoners were released to the army. One example of a
happy reunion follows – however some were to learn of a harsher fate for their loved ones.
“….Among the captives, a woman was brought into the camp at Muskingham, with a babe
about three months old at her breast. One of the Virginia-volunteers soon knew her to be his
wife, who had been taken by the Indians about six months before. She was immediately
delivered to her overjoyed husband. He flew with her to his tent, and cloathed her and his child
in proper apparel. But their joy, after the first transports, was soon damped by the reflection
that another dear child of about two years old, captivated with the mother, and separated from
her, was still missing, altho many children had been brought in.
A few days afterwards, a number of other prisoners were brought to the camp, among whom
were several more children. The woman was sent for, and one, supposed to be hers, was
produced to her. At first sight she was uncertain, but viewing the child with great earnestness,
she soon recollected its features; and was so overcome with joy, that literally forgetting her
sucking child she dropt it from her arms, and catching up the new found child in an extasy,
pressed it to her breast, and bursting into tears carried it off, unable to speak for joy. The father
seizing up the babe she had let fall,followed her in no less transport and affection.
Among the children who had been carried off young, and had long lived with the Indians, it is
not to be expected that any marks of joy would appear on being restored to their parents or
relatives. Having been accustomed to look upon the Indians as the only connexions they
had, having been tenderly treated by them, and speaking their language, it is no wonder that
they considered their new state in the light of a captivity, and parted from the savages with
tears.”3
Philip was discharged from that service on December 27, 1764. As you can see, by the
time he was 15 ½ years old he had completed his first military campaign.
Three months later in March of 1765 the family moved back to Bedford County,
Pennsylvania as the expedition against the Indians had brought a temporary peace to that county.
The next time we hear of Philip is when he volunteers for Lord Dunmore’s War in 1774.
He enlisted in the Virginia militia with his brother John. Lord Dunmore's War was a confrontation
between Virginia and the Native Americans of the Ohio Country.
In 1768, the Iroquois natives and the British signed the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. In
this agreement, the Iroquois gave all of their lands east and south of the Ohio River to the British.
While the Iroquois agreed to give up this land, most Ohio Native Americans did not, including
the Delaware natives, the Seneca-Cayuga natives, and the Shawnee natives.
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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of Bouquet's Expedition AGAINST THE OHIO INDIANS In 1764, WITH PREFACE by FRANCIS
PARKMAN and A Translation of Dumas' BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GENERAL BOUQUET, CINCINNATI, OHIO, THE
ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY, 1907 p. 65-66
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White settlers immediately moved into the region. By the spring of 1774, violent
encounters had taken place in the disputed area as the Native Americans, especially the Shawnee,
tried to drive the British colonists back to the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains. On May
3, 1774, a group of British colonists, seeking vengeance, killed eleven Seneca-Cayuga natives. At
least two of them were relatives of Chief Logan, leader of the Seneca-Cayuga at Yellow Creek
(near modern-day Steubenville). Upon hearing of the murders, many Seneca-Cayuga and
Shawnees demanded retribution. Some, like the Shawnee leader Cornstalk, urged conciliation.
Cornstalk and most other Shawnee natives promised to protect British fur traders in the Ohio
Country from retaliatory attacks since the traders were innocent in this attack. Logan, however,
was not kept from his vengeance. Shawnee and Seneca-Cayuga leaders did not stop him from
attacking British colonists living south and east of the Ohio River.
Logan took approximately two dozen warriors to seek revenge on the colonists in
western Pennsylvania. There his followers killed thirteen settlers before returning back west of
the Ohio River. Captain John Connolly, commander of Fort Pitt, immediately prepared to attack
the Ohio Country natives. John Murray, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, offered
his colony's assistance. Dunmore hoped to prevent Pennsylvania's expansion into modern-day
West Virginia and Kentucky. He wished to place Virginia militiamen in these regions. He also
hoped to open these lands to white settlement.
In August 1774, Pennsylvania militia [of which Philip and his father Martin were
members] entered the Ohio Country and quickly destroyed seven Seneca-Cayuga villages, which
the Native Americans had abandoned as the soldiers approached. At the same time, Lord
Dunmore sent one thousand men to the Kanawha River in modern-day West Virginia to build a
fort and to attack the Shawnees. Cornstalk, who had experienced a change of heart toward the
white colonists as the soldiers invaded the Ohio Country, sent nearly one thousand warriors to
drive Dunmore's force from the region. The forces met on October 10, 1774, at what became
known as the Battle of Point Pleasant. After several hours of intense fighting, the British drove
Cornstalk's followers north of the Ohio River. Dunmore, with a large force of his own, quickly
followed the Shawnees across the river into the Ohio Country. Upon nearing the Shawnee
villages on the Pickaway Plains north of modern-day Chillicothe, Ohio, and near what is now
Circleville, Ohio, Dunmore stopped. From his encampment named Camp Charlotte, Dunmore
requested that the Shawnees come to him and discuss a peace treaty. The Shawnees agreed, but
while negotiations were under way, Colonel Andrew Lewis and a detachment of Virginia militia
that Dunmore had left behind at Point Pleasant, crossed the Ohio River and destroyed several
Shawnee villages. Fearing that Dunmore intended to destroy them, the Shawnees immediately
agreed to terms before more blood was shed.
As a result of this war, some Shawnee natives agreed to the terms of the Treaty of Fort
Stanwix (1768), and promised to give up some of their lands east and south of the Ohio River.
This was the first time that some of the natives who actually lived in the Ohio Country agreed to
relinquish some of their land. In addition, these Shawnees also promised to return their white
captives and to no longer attack British colonists traveling down the Ohio River.”4
After his return to Bethel Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Philip shows up on the
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http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Lord_Dunmore%27s_War_and_the_Battle_of_Point_Pleasant?rec=514
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1775 tax record for that township as a single freeman. He, along with all of the other single men in that
township were assessed a tax of 15 shillings. 5 However he was soon to lose that single status designation.
Philip returned to Bedford County, Pennsylvania and on April 30, 1776 married Salome Heaton.
By this time the Revolutionary War had already started after the Battles of Lexington and Concord on
April 19, 1775. With the war already a year old, Philip would not be staying home with Salome for long.
Just a short time later, in June of 1776, he enlisted for the term of six months in the town of
Hancock in the State of Maryland as a private, in the company commanded by Captain Andrew Hines,
with First Lt. Ezekiel Cox, Second Lieutenant Isaac McCracken and Ensign John L. Jacobs as officers.
He enlisted with his brothers, Martin and John Longstreth. This Company, under the command of Colonel
Mifflin, was enrolled for the Flying Camp. The Flying Camps were militia units that General George
Washington could call on to replace other militia units whose brief time of enlistment had expired. Philip
was enrolled on October 12, 1776 and ordered to Philadelphia on October 15, 1776 by the Council of
Safety for Maryland.6 From Philadelphia they marched on to Trenton, New Jersey, Princeton, Brunswick,
South Amboy, Newark, and Elizabethtown. There he was attached to General Hall’s Brigade and
marched from Elizabethtown to Dobb’s Ferry on the North River. They then marched to the battle at
White Plains where he was in combat. After the battle they returned to Dobb’s Ferry. At Dobb’s Ferry
they were ordered to Fort Lee and arrived at Fort Lee in the very early morning of the day of the battle for
Fort Washington. Philip’s brother Martin was also in the same unit. Martin’s deposition states that he
“….recollects seeing General Washington when he arrived at Fort Lee previous to the capture of Fort
Washington. He also recollects having seen General Greene, also General Putnam with whom he was
well acquainted.”7 The capture of American forces at Fort Washington led to Philip’s company escaping
to Elizabethtown after the British ship of war “Roebuck” 8came up the river and the British were
attempting to trap them between the Hackensack and North Rivers. They then marched back to
Philadelphia where the company was discharged by Captain Hines in December of 1776.9 Philip missed
the Battle of Trenton (Dec 26, 1776) because his term of enlistment was already up and he had returned
home to Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
It may be interesting to the reader to see the rations permitted each man by the Convention for the
State of Pennsylvania ordered on Friday, August 9, 1776. It is as follows:
“One Pound of Beef, or three Quarters of a Pound of Pork, or One Pound of Salt Fish, per day.
One Pound of Bread or Flour per Day.
Three Pints of Peas or Dean per week, or Vegetables equivalent at one Dorral per bushel for
Peas or Beans.
One Pint of Milk per man per Day, or at the Rate of 1/72 of a Dollar.
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Bethel Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania Tax records - 1775
Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, Volume 18, p. 74
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Sworn by Martin Longstreth before the court in Bedford County, Pennsylvania on August 28. 1822 - U.S.
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, p. 2
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Sworn by Martin Longstreth before the court in Bedford County, Pennsylvania on August 28. 1822 - U.S.
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, p. 1
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Sworn by Philip Longstreth before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Fayette County, January 9, 1833
Pennsylvania, U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, p. 1
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One Half-pint of Rice, or One Pint of Indian Meal, per man per week.
One Quart of Spruce Beer, or Cyder, per man per Day, or Nine Gallons of Mosasses per
Company of 100 men per week.
Three Pounds of Candles to 100 Men per Week, for Guards.
Twenty-four pounds of Soft or Eight Pounds of Hard Soap for 100 men per week.
That Two Thousand Copies of the Particulars of the Rations allowed for the Flying Camp, be
printed and distributed among the men.”10
He remained at home for just a few weeks until February of 1777 when Colonel Pomeroy’s
troops came through Bedford County on their way to Morristown, New Jersey. Philip and three neighbor
men joined those troops. In New Jersey, Philip enlisted under an officer named Scott. Philip’s brother
John had previously enlisted with Scott for a term of three years. Philip enlisted for two years. However
due to lost records he served three years. He stated in his 1833 deposition that Scott failed or resigned due
to his old age and inability and the loss of memory.
From Morristown he was ordered to guard seven ammunition wagons from Morristown to
Dobb’s Ferry. He made three trips from Dobb’s Ferry to Plattsburg laded with Grapeshot and balls.
However after they arrived in Plattsburg they were ordered immediately to Saratoga. Before he got there
he was ordered to take charge and drive an artillery wagon whose cannon he helped to man during the
battle (of Saratoga).11
Saratoga was a pivotal battle of the American Revolution. By defeating British General John
Burgoyne’s army coming down from Canada the fledgling American Army was saved from being caught
between two British armies.
Philip and some of Scott’s other recruits were reassigned to Captain Claypole and Captain Bush
after Saratoga. For a short period he served under Colonel Hartley at New Windsor (New York) which
served as a major base for the Continental Army. It was during this time that Philip was given leave for
two months to return home. After his trip home, a little after New Year’s 1778, he rejoined his company
under Captain Bush and Colonel Hartley at Valley Forge. He spent the winter and spring of 1778 in the
11th Pennsylvania Regiment driving wagon and hauling forage, wood, etc. He was driving a baggage
wagon at the Battle of Monmouth.
He continued to drive wagons for the Continental Army until General Sullivan’s campaign began
in August of 1779.
Combined Indian and British Loyalist raids against the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania
throughout 1778 caused the American Continental Army to send 4500 men against the 6 Nation Indian
tribes and their British Allies in the summer of 1778. Their primary goal was to destroy the principal
villages and food supplies of the Cayuga and Seneca Indian nations. These villages had served as staging
grounds for the raids on New York and Pennsylvania. General Washington committed a large part of the
Continental Army to this goal. Philip was part of this expedition.
At first, Philip drove the baggage wagon as far as the Wyoming River. Upon arriving at the
Wyoming he was ordered to drive seven pack horses throughout the rest of the campaign in the fall of
10
Extract of Minutes, In Convention of the State of Pennsylvania, by John Morris, Junior Secretary, Friday August 9,
1776
11
Sworn by Philip Longstreth before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Fayette County, January 9, 1833
Pennsylvania, U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, p. 1
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1779. After the campaign they returned via Easton, Pennsylvania and then on to Morristown, New Jersey.
He stayed at Morristown through that terrible winter of 1779-80 where he was under arms and also
occasionally driving wagons.
It is interesting to note that even while he was away at war he was still assessed taxes back in
Bethel Township in Bedford County. The tax year of 1779 showed his father Martin owning 170 acres, 2
horses, 3 cows, 8 sheep and a mill. That same year showed his brother Bartholomew owning 75 acres, 2
horses and 4 cows. His brother John was not as fortunate, he only owned 1 cow. Philip had 600 acres, 2
horses, 7 cows, and 4 sheep.12
It is also interesting to note the hardships his absence had on his wife Salome while he was gone.
Elizabeth Croxton’s deposition on this time period states, “…”she well remembers said Philip Longstreth
being a long time absent from his home to which place his visits and returns was very short & seldom, …
(as) a soldier in the said Continental & Revolutionary war, and at no other place during his absence and
that a William Genings resided & was highered to stay with the said Salome Longstreth, wife of the said
Philip, during the term of said war. Where they resided on the frontier of (then called) Bedford County
Pennsylvania at which place the Indians was dangerous, so much so that the said Mrs. Longstreth when
leaving her blockhouse for to hunt, or to milk her cow, she was obliged to take her gun also in going (2
words unreadable) home of evenings to the Ledmine fort…”13
He received his discharge in June of 1780 still while serving with Captain Bush. He then had to
go to Colonel Hartley in Little York, New York. Upon receiving his discharge he was detained one year
longer than he had signed up for in 1777.
A Lieutenant’s commission had been sent to his wife in Bedford, County Pennsylvania for him to
serve in the militia due to continuing Indian attacks in Pennsylvania. When he got home, he received a
Captain’s commission in May of 1780 through the influence of Colonel Piper. Although he had not
solicited a captaincy he was compelled by the threat of Indian attacks to accept the commission. He
served as Captain of the Third Battalion of Bedford County Militia from August 2, 1780 until August 20,
1783.14
He was immediately dispatched to the western and northern Pennsylvania frontier on August 2,
1780 after Indians had killed Heady and Scott and their families and he buried the dead. They were then
ordered to Fort Yellow Creek to keep a standing garrison at that fort to keep scouting parties always out
in different parts of the country. Later half of his company was ordered to Fort Ligonier. They were there
for a considerable time. Next, they went to Fort Hammerston and then on to another small fort until it was
destroyed by Indians. They then returned to Fort Yellow Creek. By that time his term of service had
expired and he returned home to Bedford County in January 1781. It was alleged the Indian depredations
would end for the winter. However, he was only home 23 days when he received an urgent express from
Colonel Piper on February 5th and ordered him to call out the militia and march to the Ledmisse fort in
Linking Valley where the Indians had killed Captain Phillips and some others near the fort. Philip then
oversaw the building and/or rebuilding of forts at Littleton, Yellow Creek, McConnell, Frankston, and
12
Bethel Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania tax records - 1779
Sworn by Elizabeth Croxton, date unknown, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, p. 1
14
Sworn by Philip Longstreth before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Fayette County, January 9, 1833
Pennsylvania, U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, p. 2
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Flanden. Another fort on the Susquehanna River he built was on an Indian route. He spent about three
months at that fort building and going out on scouting parties. Then, they were ordered to another little
fort on the Kiskimanetas river in western Pennsylvania. He stayed at this fort for about a month and then
returned to the fort on the Susquehanna. He was only there five days when several people were killed by
Indians near Fort Littleton. More people were killed on the frontier despite the best efforts of the soldiers.
The Belfast Township tax records in 1781 show a decline in Philip’s holdings. He is down to 300
acres, from the 600 he had in 1779, 1 horse and 4 cows. His father Martin, on the other hand has
increased his acreage to 280 acres, 2 horses, 5 cows, 1 sheep, 1 mill, and 1 still. That may account for him
being the highest taxpayer of the family that year! Philip’s brothers John and James pay less than half of
what Philip pays and less than a third of what their father pays.15
Philip was finally discharged on August 20, 1783 at Frankstown. During the entire time from
August 1780 to August 1783 he was only home once. 16
Philip continued to live in Belfast Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania for the next several
years. He is shown on the tax rolls of Belfast Township in 1785 along with his brothers, James and John.
Philip’s taxes (16 shillings: 6 pence) are 2-3 times the amount of his brothers (James 5 shillings; 11
pence, and John 6 shillings; 0 pence).17
The tax records of 1786 show only that Philip, John and James are taxable inhabitants of the
Belfast Township. The tax records of 1788 show them owing a much reduced rate in state taxes. By the
1790 US Census, Bedford County had grown to a population of 13, 122. Philip and James seem to be the
only Longstreths still living in that county. 18
Philip and Salome’s circumstances continued to decline. By 1828 Elizabeth Croxton (Elizabeth
was likely Philip and Salome’s daughter) was to say in her deposition; “.… said (Philip) Longstreth is a
poor man & has long since been unable to support himself except by private or public charity, that in
relation to said Philip’s property owned by him since the Act of 18 March 1818 was, in the opinion of the
deponent was not worth more in value, than the property which is sat forth in the Said Philip Longstreth’s
schedule given at Waynesburg Court on the 18th of November A.D. 1828 and the whole of the said
property disposed of by said Longstreth and wife are as follows, vis. Sold to Mrs. Godwine, 18 geese for
7 pounds of feathers, and two pigs to Robert Richey, & some other items of less value for grain & meat
for house use & also purchased an old mare from George Custer for which he said Philip gave forty yards
of linen. & said mare died soon afterwards, but said deponent can’t distinctly recollect whether said
purchase was before or after the said Act of 18th March 1818.” Elizabeth Croxton signed the deposition
with her mark, an X.19
In 1833, Philip was awarded a pension of $230 per year, substantially more than other pensioners
because of his length of service. He was able to draw that yearly amount until his death on December 10,
1836.
Salome outlived Philip by 10 years. She began drawing $230 annually, paid on March 4th and
15
Belfast Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania – 1781 Tax records
Sworn by Philip Longstreth before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Fayette County, January 9, 1833
Pennsylvania, U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, p. 3
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Belfast Township tax rolls, 1785
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1790 US Census, Bedford County, Pennsylvania p. 3 and p. 18
19
Sworn by Elizabeth Croxton before the court in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, date unknown, p. 1
16
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September 4th of each year from his death until her death on May 6, 1846. Three of her children, Philip,,
James, and Martin had preceded her in death. She was survived by eight children; John, Joel, Thomas,
Elizabeth, Abigail, Sarah, Ann, and Susannah. Their son Thomas, as executor continued to try to get
additional monies for his brothers and sisters up through 1851, seemingly to no avail.
So ends this tale of a Revolutionary War hero. Philip exemplified the ideal citizen soldier.
Without men like him, the frontier would never have been settled. We as Philip and Salome’s posterity
owe a great debt of gratitude to them. May we all have the desire and will to protect and preserve the
freedoms they earned for us.
Only known picture of Philip and
Salome Longstreth family –
Susannah Longstreth, born 1800 in
Fairchance, Pennsylvania, about 7
miles from West Virginia in Fayette
County Pennsylvania– she was their
last born daughter, and next to last
child.
10
Battle of Saratoga Feb 1777- Nov 1777 =
Dunmores’s War – 1774 =
1st Campaign 1764 =
Moved to Bedford
County PA 1760
Sulllivan’s Campaign
Aug – Sep 1778 =
Born 1746
in Bucks County PA
Nor
Jun 1776-Dec 1776
Battle of White Plains
=
Philip’s war time journeys superimposed on a map of today
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Places in Pennsylvania Philip Lived
The county of Bedford was created March 9, 1771….The reason assigned for the erection of the new
county was "the great hardships the inhabitants of the western parts of the county of Cumberland lie
under, from being so remote from the present seat of judicature and the public offices…..The area of
this county, once so immense. has been gradually restricted, by the erection of Northumberland County
in 1772, Westmoreland in 1773, Huntingdon in 1787, Somerset in 1795, Cambria in 1804, Blair in 1846,
and Fulton in 1850; and the one jurisdiction has, in time, been divided and subdivided, until some
twenty counties, or portions of counties, now occupy the territory of the original county of Bedford.
Lived in Allegheny
County from 1798-1809
Lived in Fayette County
from 1809 - 1820
Lived in Greene County from 1820
to his death in 1836 with
occasional visits with his children
in Fayette County
1761 moved to Bedford County, 1762
escaped back to Cumberland County due
to Indian attacks. In 1764 joined
Bouquet’s expedition. Moved back to
Bedford in March of 1765 and remained
there until 1776 excepting the 1774
Dunmore campaign and from 1776-1783
war years. Continued to live in Bedford
after the Revolutionary War until 1798.
Philip born in Bucks
County 1749
Philip moved to
Cumberland County
at 11 years of age in
1760
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