Henry Miller, the youngest son of John Miller, a farmer of Lancaster County, was born 13 February 1751. The family’s land-holdings are now commemorated by the town of Millersville. He was educated to the law in the offices of Collinson Read of Reading and Samuel Johnston, Prothonotary of York, to whom he was clerk. Miller … Read more
No biography available. This officer did not join the Society in his lifetime, but his descendents are eligible through the Rule of 1854. To help us create a biography of this officer, contact society@pasocietyofthecincinnati.org.
Mifflin’s name is familiar to all or most Pennsylvanians: there is Mifflin Street in Philadelphia and doubtless elsewhere; there are Mifflintown, Mifflinburg and Mifflin County; Columbia, Dauphin and Lycoming Counties all have Mifflin Townships. But the first Governor of Pennsylvania after independence has never been the subject of a definitive and impartial biography. This is … Read more
Several remarkable aspects of Lieutenant Markland’s history set him apart from the other officers of the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, but chief among them is a biography produced in 1826 when Markland was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election as a Federalist Commissioner for Philadelphia County. There can be no doubt that this biography, … Read more
The future naval hero was born on 6 July 1747 in the parish of Kirkbean on the Solway Firth in southwestern Scotland. His father John Paul was the gardener on the estate of Arbigland belonging to one William Craik who in 1730 fathered an illegitimate son, James, later Dr. James Craik, Chief Hospital Physician of … Read more
No biography available. This officer did not join the Society in his lifetime, but his descendents are eligible through the Rule of 1854. To help us create a biography of this officer, contact society@pasocietyofthecincinnati.org.
Like a few others in this study William Jackson had no service in the Pennsylvania Line. He is said to have been born in “Cumberland, England, March 9, 1759”, which it is supposed refers to the former county Cumberland, now no longer a part of the political geography of Britain. He was early an orphan … Read more
William Irvine, born 3 November 1741, was one three brothers of Inniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ulster, who came to this country as young men and later held commissions in the Continental Army. The others were Captain Andrew Irvine [an Original Member of the Society], and Surgeon’s Mate Matthew Irvine of Thompson’s Rifle Battalion and “Lee’s Legion”, … Read more
Irish was born in Saucon Township, then in Bucks but now Northampton County, on 8 May 1737, the son of Nathaniel Irish, Sr., a native of the Island of Montserrat in the British West Indies. The father came to the Mainland about 1730 and died as the manager of Union Furnace, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, … Read more
Adam Hubley was one of the outstanding officers of the Pennsylvania Line, but relatively little has been written about him. He was born in Lancaster on 9 January 1759, the fourth son of Michael and Rosanna (Strumpf) Hubley. The father was born in Germany in 1722, and in 1764 and 1765 was a burgess of … Read more
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