Emericks in the Military

Emericks in the Military

  

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Pennsylvania Counties

Michael Emrich (121272000000000) "He served in the Revolutionary War in Captain FOLMERS Company, Berks Co.,PA Ref: PA Archives Third Series, Vol. 6, p. 320." - submitted by Barbara Connor

County: Columbia Co.
Name: Matthias Emerick
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 72 00
Sums Received: 1,354 61
Description of service: 2nd regiment U. S. infantry When placed on the pension roll: August 3, 1816 Commencement of pension: May 10, 1815 Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks.: Acts military establishment.

County: Ulster Co.
Name: Wilhelmus Emerick
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 65 00
Sums Received: 162 50
Description of service: New York militia
When placed on the pension roll: August 9, 1833
Commencement of pension: March 4, 1831 - Age: 74

County: Berks Co.
Name: John Emerick
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 57 60
Sums Received: 783 04
Description of service: Morrow's 22nd infantry
When placed on the pension roll: March 11, 1818
Commencement of pension: March 1, 1815
Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks.: Military establishment.

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County: Berks Co.
Name: John Emerick
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 72 00
Sums Received: 390 20
Description of service: -
When placed on the pension roll: -
Commencement of pension: October 8, 1828
Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks.: October 4, 1828. Raised on account of increased disability. [p.572]

County: Montgomery Co.
Name: Philip Emerick
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 20 00
Sums Received: 40 00
Description of service: Pennsylvania State troops
When placed on the pension roll: April 23, 1833
Commencement of pension: March 4, 1831 - Age: 77
Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks.: -

1st, 2nd, 3rd BATTALION, BERKS CO., REV WAR, 1777 and 1778
From Pennsylvania Archives 3:6:275-322, Contributed by Katharine F. Dix Transcribed and Edited by Judy Nelson
Capt. Emrick's Company Althouse, Daniel Althouse, John Alwein, John Bender, Andrew Bender, George Bolt, Jacob Bux, Abraham Conrad, Joseph Eyler, Adam Eyrich, Conrad Feis, Jacob Foust, Jacob Geeding, Adam Geeding, William Gesel, Thomas Heck, John Hershberger, Christopher Himelberger, Jacob Kaufman, Christian Ketner, Nicholas Klee, Hannes Klee, Jacob Klee, Matthias Krim, Ludwig Krim, Valentine Lang, Fewe Lang, Valentine Leymaister, Andrew Loss, Conrad Meilsen, Jacob Mengle, Adam Miller, Christian Miller, Samuel Most, John Mourer, Martin Noecker, Henry Phillips, Henry Runhle, Jacob Ruth, Jost Seiber, Christian Speiger, Michael Stam, Nicholas Straus, Casper Straus, Jacob Umbenhaur, Samuel Wagner, George A. Wagoner, Jacob Wamer, Michael Winder, Christian Yoder, John Zug, Christian Zumbro, Joseph

The Emmerich Free Corps, raised by Lt. Col. Andreas Emmerich in New York, with volunteers from New York and Germany, fought in the attacks on Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery, and also participated in other actions, had a strength of 250 men and was finally discharged in 1783 at Quebec. - contributed by John Helmut Merz:

From Philip R.N.Karcher's "King George's Army 1775-1783" is taken the following information:
"Raised in New York, Fall of 1776, and stationed there, fought in the attack on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, and the raid on Tappen, N.Y., Sep.1778. They disbanded in Canada in 1783. Strength: 250 men, uniform, grey coats or jackets. Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Emmerich.

The personal history of Andreas Emmerich, provided through the courtesy of an American military historian, originally published by Friedrich W.Strieder in "Grundlage zu einer Hessischen Gelehrten- und Schriftsteller=Geschichte, XVI, pp.555-556. :

EMMERICH, ANDREAS

Born 1737 in the village of Kilianstaedten near Hanau. He was in the game and forestry service of the Isenburg family. In 1756 young Emmerich went to England with a Hessian corps commanded by Lieutenant General Graf Christian Ludwig von Isenburg.

Later he served in Germany in various light corps engaged in partisan warfare against the French during the Seven Years' War. He had highly placed sponsors, including the Duke of Cumberland, the Hessian Lieutenant General Johann Casimir von Isenburg and the Erbprinz of Braunschweig, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand.
About 1760 he was commissioned a Lieutenant, possibly in the Jaeger corps of Graf von Schulenburg. At the end of the war, although he could have entered Prussian service, he went to England, where Lord Granby obtained a position for him as Deputy Surveyor General of the King's Forests (sic!).

At the outbreak of the American Revolution he obtained a Lieutenant Colonel's commission and permission to raise a corps of light troops bearing his name. After the Revolution he returned to England and later went to Germany. He was very unsettled, and although he had a family, he was forever traveling. About 1794 he intended to publish a five-volume autobiography entitled "Histoire Memorable de la vie du Lieutenant-Colonel-Anglois Andre Emmerich", but this was never completed and all he ever prepared was about nine and a half octavo pages. His unsettled and restless ways continued. After the French occupation of Hesse-Kassel and the establishment of the Kingdom of Westphalia, he became involved in an insurrection against the French. Toward the end of June 1809 he was captured at the head of a small band of men. At the age of seventy-two he was executed by a firing squad in Kassel on 19 July 1809.

Bill Byers (PENNROOTS) has transcribed the Bates' history of the 211th Regiment of PA Volunteers to computer text.
It consists of a file that contains the history of the regiment, and a series of files that list the name, rank, muster in date, and remarks for each man in each of the companies of the 211th.
Company A recruited in Crawford County
Company B in Jefferson
Emerick, Peter - Private Sept 6,1864
Mustered out with company June 2,1865
Company C in McKean and Jefferson
Emigh, George - Private Sept 5,1865
Mustered out with company, June 2,1865 Company D in Mercer
Company F in Erie
Company G in Warren
Companies E, H, I, and K in Westmoreland - - There was no Company J

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