9TH PENNSYLVANIA



DIVISION:  SECOND

BRIGADE:  3RD PA 

HISTORY:  ORGANIZED SPRING 1777 AT PHILADELPHIA FROM LANCASTER, CUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, CHESTER AND PHILADELPHIA COUNTIES.

 ENTERED VALLEY FORGE WITH 229 ASSIGNED, 146 FIT FOR DUTY, LEFT VALLEY
FORGE WITH 212 ASSIGNED, 117 FIT FOR DUTY. 

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS : NORTHERN NEW JERSEY, DEFENSE OF PHILADELPHIA, PHILA-MONMOUTH.

Staff Officers
Colonel RICHARD BUTLER
Lt. Colonel MATHEW SMITH
Major FRANCIS NICHOLS
Company Officers
Captain JOSEPH MCCLELLAN
Captain THOMAS B. BOWEN
Captain JOHN DAVIS
Captain GEORGE GRANT
Captain WILLIAM MACKEY
Captain MATHEW HENDERSON
Captain THOMAS GOURLEY
Captain JOSEPH ERWIN
1st Lt. JOHN VANLEAR
Staff Officers

Chaplain

 
Quartermaster  GEORGE KNOX / JOHN PALMERE
Adjutant   WILLIAM THOMPSON
Paymaster  JOHN TATE
Surgeon  WILLIAM MAGAW / DAVID LOVE
Surgeon Mate  SYLVESTER DOYLE / SAMUEL PLATT
Quartermaster Sergeant   AMES TRINDLE
Sergeant Major   SAMPSON DEMPSEY
Drum Major  JAMES JOHNSON
Fife Major