Notes:

Birth:
The historical area of East Riding

Ann married Nottingham, William J in 1669 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. William was born between 1640 and 1645 in England; died on 1 Jun 1680 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Garton, Thomas in 1681 in Ulster, New York, USA. Thomas was born in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Brodhead, Captain Daniel Hamilton in 1661 in Yorkshire, England. Daniel (son of Broadhead, Jonathan Daniel and Cape, Susan) was born in 1631 in Yorkshire, England; was christened on 2 Dec 1632 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; died on 14 Jul 1667 in Esopus, Ulster, New York, USA; was buried after 14 Jul 1667 in Esopus, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Rutson, Margaret on 22 Jun 1702 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Margaret was born on 11 Nov 1683 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; was christened on 11 Nov 1683 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died in Mar 1731 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA; was buried in Mar 1731 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Visscher, Johannes Hermessen on 24 Nov 1695 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Johannes was born in 1669 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA; died before 10 Apr 1749 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA; was buried on 10 Apr 1749 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

• Will, 20 May 1752, Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, United States. 1 Liber 24, page 225: Will of Anne Gorton of Marbletown, Spinster, dated 5-20-1752, pr. 12-1-1763. She left all of her estate to her nephew, daniel Brodhead of Dansbury, Bucks Co. Pa and made his sole executor.
At the time that the will was proved, Daniel Brodhead was dead, and Letters of administration were granted to Charles Brodhead, Jr., nephew and next of kin to Anne Gortan, the testatrix."
New York Historical Society
Vol. 6, 1760-1766
Abstract of Wills

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Captain
• FSID: 9V16-C9M
• Birth: 1665, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

Charles Brodhead I (1663-1724)

Biography:
"Charles Brodhead I married Maria (b. 1674), the daughter of Maria Ten Eyck and Wessel Ten Broeck, on November 14, 1693,. Their children were Daniel III, Charles II, Mary (or Maria), and two sons named Wessel (one of whom died as an infant). Charles also bore the title of captain in the Ulster County militia. Maria died July 9, 1717; Charles I died March 12, 1724. Charles and his brother Richard were given a grant of land which was much later covered by the waters of the Ashokan Reservoir. " (Source: The Winterthur Library)

See comments for Daniel Brodhead (1637)

• Military Service: commission to Captain, 1685. 2 He received a commission - Chas. Brodhead, Commission, Ensign Foot Company, 1685 and Signed by governor Thomas Songan.

These papers were in the possession of Lucan Brodhead in Woodford County, Kentucky at the time of his death in 1914.

"To all Christian People, etc. Charles Brodhead of Marbletown in the county of Ulster send greetings: Whereas Daniel Brodhead, late of Marbletown, deceased, left his land to his two brothers, Charles Brodhead and Richard Brodhead ans whereas they have parted and divided the same to their contentment, Now know yee that the said Charles Brodhead for the consideration above but more especially for the avoiding and laying aside all further differences which might arise about the same have given, granted, released, ratified and confirmed unto Richard Brodhead forever that part of the said tract lying next to the lot of John Biggs on the second piece within the bounds of Marbletown so as the same is divided and layd out and stones set by the siad Charles Brodhead and Richard Brodhead as also the old creek or kill lying to the northwest and of the said land that is so broad as the part of the said Richard Brodhead's is and so far northwesterly as the bounds layd out by the said Charles Brodhead and Jan Mattysen between them and also a tract of woodland lyeing in Marbletown behind the Block house called Han's Bottom and all the lowland formerly purchased by his mother of Theuma Jacobsen and that part of the upland thereunto adjoining so as the same is divided and layd ooout by the said Charles Brodhead and richard Brodhead to have and to hold the said parts, parcells etc. and with all and singular the benefits advantaes etc. thereunto belonging unto the said Richard Brodhead, his hhheirs and assigns forever. In witness I have hereunto put my hand and seals in Marbletown the 6th Day of January, 1706-7.
Charles Brodhead (L.S.)"
Ulster Families
Lila Russell James Roney
Ulster Co. Press 1939

• Miscellaneous, 3 Aug 1694. 3 Capt. Brodhead received a sheepskin from William and Mary on 3 Aug 1694 which Gov. Ben Fletcher signed and Royal seals affixed. There is also a conveyance still to be found - Capt. Charles Brodhead - conveyance (sheepskin) for Mt. Hope and his "Stony Arabia" from the Trustees of Marbletown, 7 June 1715. This was signed by Richard Brodhead, Jorris and Peter VanLuben.

• Land, 15 Oct 1707, Esopus, New York, United States. 4 On Oct. 15, 1707 Charles and Richard Brodhead petitioned for a grant of land on the Esopus Creek or Kill, called Ashocon by the Indians. Part of this land grant would be in the family for over 200 years until the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir. It has been said this was the earliest grant given out in this region.
-Town of Olive Through the Years
Vera Van Steenberg Sickler

Charles married Maria TENBROECK [10242] [MRIN: 3659], daughter of Wesselsen TENBROECK [10243] and Maria TENEYCK [10244], on 14 Nov 1693 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, United States.1 (Maria TENBROECK [10242] was born in Apr 1674 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, United States 1 and died on 9 Jul 1717 in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, United States 1.)

Sources

1 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I; page 29.

2 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I; Page 29 & 30.

3 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I; Page 29.

4 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I; Page 29.

Charles married Tenbroeck, Maria on 14 Nov 1693 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Maria (daughter of Tenbroeck, Wesselsen and Teneyck, Maria) was born in Apr 1674 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 9 Jul 1717 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 2QB1-VR5

Notes:

Richard shared in a land grant petition with his brother Charles on 15 October 1707. This land was in the family for over 200 years until covered with the Ashoken Reservoir.

In 1758 his estate in Marbletown was divided and mentions Daniel, Magdalene - wife of Jacob Esselstine of Claverack, Ann - wife of Andrew Oliver, Neeltje - wife of Stephen Nottingham, Elizabeth - wife of Christopher Davis, John, Mary - wife of Robert McGinnis and Rachel - wife of Furman of New York city. 2

Captain Richard Brodhead​ (1666-1758)

Biography:
Captain Richard Brodhead​, son of Captain Daniel and Ann Brodhead, was born at Marbletown, New York, in the year 1666, died in 1758. Little is satisfactorily known of this Richard. It is known, however, that he held a captain’s commission in the Ulster county militia, in 1728, and it is likely that he was engaged in the Indian wars of that period. His wife was Magdalena Jansen, whom he married, April 19, 1692, by whom he had a son Daniel. Magdalena Jansen Brodhead died in 1701 [sic]. (Source: Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (1911) by John Woolf Jordan, Wilfred Jordan)

Biography:
*Richard Brodhead, the first Brodhead to be born in New York, married Magdelene Jansaen in 1692, and after her death he married Wyntie Pawling in 1698. He had eleven children, but they do not seem to be mentioned in any of the documents in this collection. Richard died around 1758. He had been a captain in the Ulster County militia. (Source: The Winterthur Library)

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Richard married Pawling, Wyndie in 1698 in Ulster, New York, USA. Wyndie was born in 1679 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; was christened on 20 Jul 1679 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 26 Jan 1771 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA; was buried in Jan 1771 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Jansen, Magdalene on 19 Apr 1692 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Brodhead, John on 12 Apr 1737 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. John (son of Brodhead, Captain Richard and Pawling, Wyndie) was born in 1716 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA; was christened on 28 Jan 1716 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 27 Nov 1784 in Ulster, New York, USA; was buried in 1784 in Wawarsing, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Magdalene married Esselstyn, Jacob on 15 May 1724 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Jacob was born in 1696; was christened on 6 Nov 1698; died in 1795 in USA; was buried in 1795 in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Oliver, Andrew on 3 Dec 1739 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Andrew was born in 1719 in Armagh, Northern Ireland; died in 1777 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nelly married Nottingham, Stephen on 21 Feb 1734 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Stephen was born in 1708 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; was christened on 14 Mar 1708 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Davis, Christopher on 3 Apr 1739 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Christopher was born in 1697 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; was christened on 30 May 1697 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Ensign

John married Nottingham, Anne on 12 Apr 1737 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Anne (daughter of Nottingham, William J and Rutson, Margaret) was born in 1716 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA; was christened on 7 Oct 1716 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 16 Dec 1786 in Ulster, New York, USA; was buried in Dec 1786 in Wawarsing, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married McGinnis, Robert on 11 Jun 1736 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Robert was born in UNKNOWN; died in DECEASED in USA; was buried in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married Furman, Wood on 20 Apr 1742 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Wood was born in 1712; died in 1783 in South Carolina, USA; was buried in 1783 in South Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Captain
• Occupation: Merchant

Notes:

• Biography. 5 "Because his mother died in 1703, he was brought up by an aunt in the Dutch Reformed Church. A merchant in Albany 1726, licensed Indian trader 1730, captain of foot company of militia at Marbletown 1737. Removed to Pennsylvania in 1738 and founded Dansbury (now E. Stroudsburg) along which is now called Brodhead's Creek on land granted by the propriators of Pennsylvania for service rendered, possibly negotiations with the Indians. In 1747 was appointed Magistrate for Bucks County north of the Blue Hills. Convinced Moravian missionaries to establish a mission at his place and in May 1733 erected a suitable building on 3 1/2 acres of land, the first church built north of the mountain. It was burned by the Indians in the December 1755 uprising. Died 22 July 1755 at Bethlehem where he had gone for medical treatment. Buried in the Moravian Cemetery there."
Information provided by John B. Freeman, Palm Harbor, Fla

• Biography. 6 This Daniel Brodhead, who was also Captain Daniel, of rank the same as his father and grandfather, removed to Pennsylvania in 1737 and bought one thousand acres of land at Stroudsburg, and was proprietor of Brodhead manor, Northampton county. In Marbletown, New York, he had served first as private, then lieutenant, and later was promoted captain. In Pennsylvania he was justice of the peace in Bucks county, 1747-49. He died in Bethlehem while under treatment for some physical affliction. ThisDaniel had been a merchant at Albany, New York, as early as 1726, and in 1730 was 'Licensed trader' among the Indians. In Pennsylvania he built the town of Dansbury, which was named for him. He united with the Moravian Church.
The Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys
Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden M.A.
Hom. Afred Hand M.A.
John W. Jordan LLD

• Biography. 6 He settled on Analoming Creek, called since that time Brodhead's Creek. He purchased 640 acres of land, in the centre of which East Stroudsburg is now located. The western boundary line started near the old forge, passed near the graveyard, and continued on the west side of the creek till beyond what is called the 'Flower Garden'. Besides East Stroudsburg, the tract embraced the properties now owned by Mr. Robert Brown and Mr. Christian Smith. He afterwards purchased what is now the eastern portion of Stroudsburg, as far as the mill-dam of Mr. William Wallace. He called the settlement Dansbury, and it was known by that name till Stroudsburg was founded by Jacob Stroud in 1769.

In 1744 Daniel Brodhead first became acquainted with the Moravian Missionaries, Shaw, Bruce, and Mack, whose way to Shekomeko (in Dutchess Co., N.Y.) passed through his settlement. With the character of these self-sacrificing Christian men, he was very favorably impressed, and was their warm friend and supporter ever after, in the face of much influential opposition at the time. They established a mission house on his property, which was situated on the west side of the creek, near the iron bridge, and was called Dansbury mission. In the outbreak of 1755, he is represented as a man of great courage and intrepidity, remaining with his sons and defending his family, and others who came there for assistance, against the attacks of the Indians, when the whole surrounding country had been abandoned.
The Delaware Water Gap
Luke Wills Brodhead

Daniel married Hester Gerritse WYNGAART [10120] [MRIN: 3620], daughter of Gerrit Lucasse WYNGAART [9773] and Sarah Hermanse VISSCHER [9774], on 21 Sep 1719 in Albany, Albany County, New York, United States.1 2 (Hester Gerritse WYNGAART [10120] was christened on 14 Mar 1697 in Albany, Albany County, New York, United States 2 and was buried on 15 Mar 1758 2.)

Sources

1 FamilySearch.org, "New York, Marriages, 1686-1980"; GS Film: 908989; System Origin: New_York-ODM.

2 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I, page 39.

3 FamilySearch.org, "Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950" GS Film: 599308; System Origin: Pennslvania-ODM.

4 findagrave.com, Memorial #: 37776555.

5 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I; page 39.

6 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I; page 41.

Daniel married Wyngaart, Hester Gerritse on 21 Sep 1719 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA. Hester was born in 1697 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA; was christened on 16 Mar 1697 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA; died on 14 Mar 1759 in Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried on 15 Mar 1759 in Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: KNX6-5BF

Mary married Brodhead, Captain Charles on 8 Jan 1761 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Charles (son of Brodhead, Daniel and Wyngaart, Hester Gerritse) was born in 1729 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA; was christened in Sep 1729 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 7 Sep 1814 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; was buried after 7 Sep 1814 in Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Physican

Family/Spouse: Livingston, N.N.. N.N. was born in UNKNOWN in USA; died in DECEASED in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Bradford, M in 1849 in USA. M was born in UNKNOWN in USA; died in DECEASED in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married in Single - Never Married. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Oliver, Mary Wyntie on 8 Jan 1761 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Mary (daughter of Oliver, Andrew and Brodhead, Ann) was born in 1740 in Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA; was christened on 6 Jul 1740 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 7 Sep 1814 in Ulster, New York, USA; was buried after 7 Sep 1814 in Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Garret Brodhead

Notes:

From THE WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLEYS, pp. 200-201:
"Lieutenant Garret Brodhead, sixth child of Captain Daniel and Hester (Wyngart) Brodhead, born Marbletown, Ulster county, New York, January 31, 1733, died Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1840 [must be a typo]; married, March 15, 1759, Jane Davis. He enlisted in the New York Colonial troops as sergeant April 4, 1758; promoted lieutenant Second regiment, Ulster county troops, 1760. He located in Smithfield township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, 1770-72, as he was taxed there in 1772, "Garret Brodhead, £7, 10s,"and in 1785, £5, 4s, 8d for six hundred acres of land, five horses, seven cattle. He was in service on 'the frontier during the Revolution, and held a lieutenant's commission. Lieutenant Garret and Jane (Davis) Brodhead had children: 1. John, born March 3, 1766, died September 5, 1821. 2. Daniel, died unmarried. 3. Richard, born July 31, 1772, of whom later. 4. George, died unmarried. 5. Elizabeth, born 1775, died 1802; married Dr. Francis Joseph Smith. 6. Rachel born 1787, married David Dills. 7. Samuel, born 1779, married Hannah Shoemaker." Note: The Brodhead Family Association's Volume I of "The Brodhead Family" (p. 72) records a 1st marriage circa 1755 to Cornelia Schoonhoven, daughter of Henricus Schoonhoven and Johanna Decker. They record the 2nd marriage (to Jane Davis) as taking place on 11 Aug 1759 (Kingston Reformed Dutch Church Hoes #1350).
Founding owner of Wheat Plains Farm, purchased after the War. Garret worked as a farmer and schoolteacher. The Farm remained in the Brodhead family well into the 1900s, leaving the family only once during that time. It is now within the Delaware Gap Recreational Area (owned and presumably maintained by the US Government).

Garrett married Davis, Jane in 1759 in New York, New York, New York, USA. Jane was born on 31 Oct 1736 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; was christened on 31 Oct 1736 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 8 May 1818 in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried on 8 May 1818 in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: General
• Occupation: General/Surveyor/Politican

Notes:

Source: 'History of the Brodhead Family' by Luke Brodhead
"Daniel married Elizabeth DEPUI, daughter of Samuel DEPUI of Smithfield. After her death, he married Gov. Mifflin's widow. He left several daughters and one son, named Daniel, who died when a young man. He was a general in the army of the Revolution and had command at Fort Pitt in 1780, and after the was, was appointed Surveyor General."

Source: 'Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of The Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania' Published by The Lewis Publishing Company; 1905 (page 230)

"One of the sons, Daniel by name, was colonel of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment in the continental army during the war of the Revolution, and at its close, while colonel commanding the western department with headquarters at Pittsburg, by special act of General Washington, and in the reorganization of the Pennsylvania troops, about 1782, was made colonel of the First Pennsylvania Regiment in the continental establishment. He held several state office, and when the new organization was formed in 1789 became the first surveyor-general of Pennsylvania, which office he held for many years and until his death at Milford, Pike county, in 1809."

Source: Virtual American Biographies
BRODHEAD, Daniel, soldier, born in Virginia in 1736; died in Milford, Pennsylvania, 15 Nov 1809. He raised in 1775 a company of rifleman who served in the battle of Long Island. He was appointed colonel of the 8th Pennsylvania regiment, and in April 1778, led a successful expedition against the Muskingum Indians. He made two important treaties with the Indians, one of them 22 July 1779, with the Cherokees, and received the thanks of congress for his success. He was for many years surveyor-general of Pennsylvania

Source: http://fruitjar.org/Mummey/brodhead.html

Abstracted from Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania
Volume Two: The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania
by George Dallas Albert, 1896
pages 190-1

Daniel Brodhead was born at Marbletown, Ulster county, New York in 1736. His great grandfather, Daniel Brodhead, was a royalist and captain of the grenadiers in the reign of Charles II. He came with the expedition under Colonel Nichols in 1664, that captured the Netherlands (now New York) from the Dutch, and settle in Marbletown in 1665. His son Richard, and his son Daniel, the father of the subject of this sketch, also resided in Marbletown. Daniel Brodhead, Sr., in 1736, removed to a place called Dansville on Brodhead's Creek, near Stroudsburgh, Monroe county, Pennsylvania, when Daniel Brodhead, Jr., was an infant. The latter and his brothers became famous for their courage in conflicts with the Indians on the border, their father's house having been attacked by the savages December 11th, 1755. Daniel became a resident of Reading in 1771, where he was deputy surveyor. In July, 1775, he was appointed a delegate from Berks county to the provincial convention in Philadelphia. At the breaking out of the Revolution, Daniel was elected a lieutenant-colonel (commissioned October 25, 1776) and subsequently became colonel of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, his promotion was March 12, 1777, to rank from September 29, 1776. He participated in the battle of Long Island, and in other battles in which Washington's army was engaged. He marched to Fort Pitt in the summer of 1778, his regiment forming a part of Brigadier-General Lachlan McIntosh's command in the Western Department. Here he served until the next spring, when he succeeded to the command in the West, headquarters at Fort Pitt. He retained this position until September 17, 1781, making a very efficient and active commander, twice leading expeditions into the Indian country, in both of which he was successful; but was superceded in his command at Pittsburgh by Colonel John Gibson. Brodhead was, at that date, colonel of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, to which position he was assigned January 17, 1781. After the war, he was Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. He was appointed to that office November 3, 1789 and held the place eleven years, he having previously served in the General Assembly. He died at Milford, Pike county, November 15, 1809. He was twice married. By his first wife he had two children; by his second, none. In 1872, at Milford, an appropriate monument was erected in his memory.

From Life Sketch

Daniel Brodhead (October 17, 1736 - November 15, 1809) was an American military and political leader during the American Revolutionary War and early days of the United States.

Biography:
General Daniel Brodhead, of revolutionary fame, whose portrait appears elsewhere in this volume, was born in Marbletown, Ulster county, New York, in 1736, and died and was buried in Milford, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1809. He was the great-grandson of Capt. Daniel Brodhead, of the English army, who came to this country in 1664, as a member of the expedition commanded by Col. Richard Nichols, in the service of King Charles II, after the Restoration.
This Daniel Brodhead, the father of the subject of this biography, removed with his family from Ulster county, New York, in the year 1737, to Danville, Pennsylvania, while the subject of this biography was but an infant. Inured to the dangers of the Indian frontier from his very cradle, the impression made as he grew up among the scenes of Indian barbarities, and the outrages of the savages, helped to form his future character and to mold him into the grand, successful soldier and Indian fighter which his subsequent history proved him to be. General Brodhead first appeared prominently in public life when he was elected a deputy from Berks county to a provincial meeting which met at Philadelphia, July 15, 1774, and served on a committee which reported sixteen resolutions, one of which recommended the calling of a continental congress and acts of non-importation and non-exportation from Great Britain. These were among the first steps toward the revolution which followed.At the beginning of the war of the revolution he was commissioned by the assembly of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia as colonel of the 8th regiment PA Colonial Troops. He first participated in the battle of Long Island. Before the close of the battle he commanded the whole of the Pennsylvania contingent troops, composed of several battalions. He was especially mentioned by Washington in his report to congress on this battle, for brave and meritorious conduct. He also participated in several other battles of the revolution. Having received the approbation of Washington, he was sent by him, in June, 1778, with his troops to Fort Muncy, where he rebuilt that fort formerly destroyed by the Indians, which command he held until Washington, on the following spring, recommended his selection to congress for the command of the western department. Washington, being personally acquainted and warmly attached to him, knew well his qualifications as a brave, judicious and competent general. Washington, by sanction of congress, issued an order, dated March 5, 1779, directing him to proceed to Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, and take charge of the western department, extending from the British possessions, at Detroit, on the north, to the French possessions (Louisiana) on the south, a command and responsibility equal to any in the revolutionary army.Gen. Brodhead established the headquarters of his department at Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had under his command the posts of Fort Pitt, Fort McIntosh, Fort Laurens, Fort Tuscarora, Fort Wheeling, Fort Armstrong and Fort Holliday's Cove. He made a number of successful expeditions in person against the Indians with a large part of his command. In 1779 he executed a brilliant march up the Allegheny with 605 men, penetrating into New York, overcoming almost insurmountable difficulties, through a wilderness without roads, driving the Indians before him, depopulating and destroying their villages all along his route, killing and capturing many. This expedition began August 11 and ended September 14, 1779, between 300 and 400 miles in thirty-three days, through a wilderness without a road. General Brodhead received the thanks of congress for this expedition, and the following acknowledgement from General Washington: "The activity, perseverance and firmness which marked the conduct of General Brodhead, and that of all the officers and men of every description in this expedition, do them great honor, and their services entitle them to the thanks and to this testimonial of the general's acknowledgement."A great number of the thrilling Indian stories of which we read in the present day occurred under Gen. Brodhead�s command. The famous Capt. Brady was a captain in Gen. Brodhead's eighth regiment, and seldom ever went out on a scout but by orders from the general. General Brodhead's devotion to the cause of liberty was untiring. He never doubted the result of the war, and his letters of encouragement to Gen. Washington and others are part of the history of our country. In one, lamenting the coldness of some former patriots, he writes: "There is nothing I so much fear as a dishonorable peace. For heaven's sake, let every good man hold up his hands against it. We have never suffered half I expected we should, and I am willing to suffer much more for the glorious cause for which I have and wish to bleed." Gen. Brodhead had a treble warfare to wage a warfare which required the genius and daring of a soldier, the diplomacy of a statesman and the good, hard sense and clear judgment of an independent ruler over an extensive country composed of a variety of elements. He waged war upon the unfriendly Indians, and held as allies in friendship several friendly nations. He watched and controlled, to a great extent, the British influence upon the Indians in the direction of Detroit. He kept in subjection a large Tory element west of the mountains in sympathy with Great Britain, and punished them by confiscating their surplus stores and provisions for the benefits of his starving soldiers, when they had refused to sell to his commissary officers on the credit of the government; but he never resorted to this punishment until his starving soldiers paraded in a body in front of his quarters and announced they had had no bread for five days. On June 24, 1779, Gen. Brodhead issued his famous order directing Col. Bayard to proceed to Kittanning and erect a fort at that point for the protection of all settlers desiring to settle in that vicinity, and for the better protection of the frontier. After the erection of this fort settlers took up land and built their houses around and in the vicinity of this fort, under its protection, until the accumulation of houses and homes in the vicinity transformed the Indian town of Kittanning into the present thriving capital of Armstrong county, which can only justly and truthfully be acknowledged the result of the fort erected by command of Gen. Brodhead, and which he was too modest to have called after himself, regardless of the importunate efforts of Col. Bayard, whom history shows to have earnestly entreated Brodhead to permit him to call it Fort Brodhead. Gen. B's untiring watchfulness of the settlements along the Allegheny, the building of his fort at Kittanning, his protection of the inhabitants in its vicinity until they became numerous enough to defend themselves, his modesty in not permitting the fort to be called after himself, justly entitle him to the credit of being the founder of Kittanning, just as the erecting of every fort on our western frontier from that day to this has been the foundation of a city or town which invariably sprang from such a planting, as Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, Leavenworth, Fort Dodge, Detroit, for never until that time had Kittanning any white inhabitants, and never from that time until the present has it been without white inhabitants. In 1781, Gen. B. was given command of the 1st Pa. Colonial regiment, and during that year received his full commission as general. His services extended through the entire war of the revolution, and at its close he was elected by the officers assembled at the cantonment of the American army on the Hudson River, May 10, 1783, as one of the committee to prepare the necessary papers for the organization of the Society of the Cincinnati. In 1789 General Brodhead was elected by the Pennsylvania assembly surveyor-general of the State of Pennsylvania, which position he held for nearly twelve years. For his services in the revolution Gen. B. received several thousand acres of land, which he located in Western Pennsylvania. Besides this he purchased largely of land through Western Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. He located much land in the vicinity of Kittanning and on the Allegheny, the scenes of his former exploits, which he never ceased to love. His second marriage was to the widow of Gen. Samuel Mifflin. He had but one child, Ann Garton Brodhead. She married Casper Heiner, of Reading, Pennsylvania, a surveyor by profession and an author of a series of mathematics. (Source: History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (1883) by Robert Walker Smith)

Daniel married Miflin, Rebecca after 1778. Rebecca was born in UNKNOWN; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Dupui, Elizabeth in Apr 1756 in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Depuy, Samuel and McDowell, Jennie) was born in 1739; died in 1788 in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Captain

Notes:

• Military Service. 4 Luke Brodhead was a captain during the greater part of the Revolution and was commissioned a colonel the same day as his brother the general. He was an intimate friend of Lafayette, and was desperately wounded at the battle of Brandywine. He was appointed magistrate during the Connecticut trouble in Wyoming, though still residing in Smithfield. He married Elizabeth Harrison and had five sons and three daughters; Thomas, John, Luke, Daniel, Alexander, Elixabeth, Ann and Rachael. He dies in Smithfield in 1805.

• Military Service. 5 Luke, born 1737, died June 19, 1806. Luke Brodhead was another of this family numbered among the heros of the Revolution. He enlisted in the spring of 1776 as Third Lieutenant, First American Rifle Regiment, Colonel William Thompson commanding. He was appointed second lieutenant, Oct. 24, 1776, in Major Simon Williams regiment. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Long Island. Later he was commissioned Captain of the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment under colonel Magaw in the Continental service. He retired in 1778 incapacitated by wounds received in battle. He married Elizabeth Harrison of Pennsylvania. One of their sons, Rev. John Brodhead, became an eminent divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

• Alt. Birth, 1737. 5

• Census: 1790 US Federal, 1790, Lower Smithfield, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. 6 Luke Brodhead
3 free white males under 16
2 free white males 16 and over
3 free white females

• Obituary: Northampton Farmer and Easton Weekly Adviser, 28 Jun 1806. 2 Died - On Thursday the 19th inst in the 65th year of his age. Captain Luke Broadhead. He was an active patriot in the 1st Pennsylvania rifle regiment which marched to Boston in 1775, in opposition to Tyranny. He was wounded, and made prisoner on Long Island, where he experienced much savage cruelty in a British prison ship, and afterwards served his country with reputation, and since had the felicity of participating the Independence of this free and happy nation, so eminently acquired and established by the (extract stops here)...

Luke married Elizabeth HARRISON [9620] [MRIN: 3435].

Sources

1 Nellie / Alma Brodhead Letter, abt 1970.

2 1799-1851 Marriages & Deaths Northampton County Newspaper Extracts - Vol. II, Vol. 1, page 29.

3 FamilySearch.org, "Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950" GS Film: 599308; System Origin: Pennslvania-ODM.

4 Luke Brodhead.

5 Biographical Sketch and Ancestry of Robert Packer Brodhead.

6 1790 US Federal Census, Lower Smithfield, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Luke married Harrison, Elizabeth in 1764 in USA. Elizabeth was born in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Captain

John married Davis, Mary in 1760 in USA. Mary was born in UNKNOWN; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]