Muster roll of Capt.n Job Varnons [i.e. Vernon's] company, 5th Regiment, of Pennsylv.a : commanded by Col. F. Johnston, in the service of the United States of America, for April 1780 ...

Muster roll of Capt.n Job Varnons [i.e. Vernon's] company, 5th Regiment, of Pennsylv.a : commanded by Col. F. Johnston, in the service of the United States of America, for April 1780 ...

[Morristown?] 1780

1 leaf ; 20 x 33 cm. (obl. fol.)

MSS L1979.1.76 MB

"Commission'd June 13th 1779 Job Varnon Capt., on furlow; Janu.r 20th 1777 Andrew Lytle Lieut, on duty
At bottom: Mustered May 2nd 1780 Jos. Harmar, Lt.Col. [First?] Penn. division
Caption title
The 5th Pennsylvania spent the winter of 1779-1780 at Morristown, N.J.
On verso: I do swair that the within muster roll is a true state of the company ... to the best of my knowledge [signed?] Jas. McCulloch, Lt. McCulloch was killed July 15, 1782.
On verso: Proof of effectives
Enumerates in six columns 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, 2 drum & fife, and 27 privates, of whom are a few included remarks such as: on duty, on com'd at Paramus, with Gl. Wayne, on furlow, sick, killed, or transfer'd
For biographical sketches of Vernon, Harmar, Johnston, Lytle, and Wayne, see John Kilbourne. Virtutis praemium: The men who founded the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania (1998).

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