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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."
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.
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