After the British evacuation of Boston in March 1776, General George Washington met with members of the Continental Congress to determine future military strategy. Faced with defending a huge amount of territory from potential British operations, Washington recommended forming a "flying camp", which in the military terminology of the day referred to a mobile, strategic reserve of troops. Congress agreed and on June 3, 1776, passed a resolution "that a flying camp be immediately established in the middle colonies and that it consist of 10,000 men ...."
The men recruited for the Flying Camp were to be militiamen from three colonies: 6000 from Pennsylvania, 3400 from Maryland, and 600 from Delaware. They were to serve until December 1, 1776, unless discharged sooner by Congress, and to be paid and fed in the same manner as regular soldiers of the Continental Army.
Brigadier-General Hugh Mercer of Virginia was commissioned as its commandant.
∼HEETER, George Maryland S 16410
Allen County, Ky. 15 Oct. 1832, GEORGE HEETER, aged 80, deposes that he enlisted as volunteer under Captain SPEIGER in Frederick County,Md. 1776. This was in Gen. BELL's Brigade and part of the "Flying Camp"; was in the Battle of White Plains.
Was born in Frederick Co., Md. in 1751. Since the war has lived in Montgomery Co., Maryland from whence he migrated to Allen County, Ky.
His wife was Catherine Space - they were married in Montgomery Co, MD Jan 31, 1779. The URL for the record is https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DYXQ-2ZR?i=548
The men recruited for the Flying Camp were to be militiamen from three colonies: 6000 from Pennsylvania, 3400 from Maryland, and 600 from Delaware. They were to serve until December 1, 1776, unless discharged sooner by Congress, and to be paid and fed in the same manner as regular soldiers of the Continental Army.
Brigadier-General Hugh Mercer of Virginia was commissioned as its commandant.
∼HEETER, George Maryland S 16410
Allen County, Ky. 15 Oct. 1832, GEORGE HEETER, aged 80, deposes that he enlisted as volunteer under Captain SPEIGER in Frederick County,Md. 1776. This was in Gen. BELL's Brigade and part of the "Flying Camp"; was in the Battle of White Plains.
Was born in Frederick Co., Md. in 1751. Since the war has lived in Montgomery Co., Maryland from whence he migrated to Allen County, Ky.
His wife was Catherine Space - they were married in Montgomery Co, MD Jan 31, 1779. The URL for the record is https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DYXQ-2ZR?i=548
After the British evacuation of Boston in March 1776, General George Washington met with members of the Continental Congress to determine future military strategy. Faced with defending a huge amount of territory from potential British operations, Washington recommended forming a "flying camp", which in the military terminology of the day referred to a mobile, strategic reserve of troops. Congress agreed and on June 3, 1776, passed a resolution "that a flying camp be immediately established in the middle colonies and that it consist of 10,000 men ...."
The men recruited for the Flying Camp were to be militiamen from three colonies: 6000 from Pennsylvania, 3400 from Maryland, and 600 from Delaware. They were to serve until December 1, 1776, unless discharged sooner by Congress, and to be paid and fed in the same manner as regular soldiers of the Continental Army.
Brigadier-General Hugh Mercer of Virginia was commissioned as its commandant.
∼HEETER, George Maryland S 16410
Allen County, Ky. 15 Oct. 1832, GEORGE HEETER, aged 80, deposes that he enlisted as volunteer under Captain SPEIGER in Frederick County,Md. 1776. This was in Gen. BELL's Brigade and part of the "Flying Camp"; was in the Battle of White Plains.
Was born in Frederick Co., Md. in 1751. Since the war has lived in Montgomery Co., Maryland from whence he migrated to Allen County, Ky.
His wife was Catherine Space - they were married in Montgomery Co, MD Jan 31, 1779. The URL for the record is https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DYXQ-2ZR?i=548
The men recruited for the Flying Camp were to be militiamen from three colonies: 6000 from Pennsylvania, 3400 from Maryland, and 600 from Delaware. They were to serve until December 1, 1776, unless discharged sooner by Congress, and to be paid and fed in the same manner as regular soldiers of the Continental Army.
Brigadier-General Hugh Mercer of Virginia was commissioned as its commandant.
∼HEETER, George Maryland S 16410
Allen County, Ky. 15 Oct. 1832, GEORGE HEETER, aged 80, deposes that he enlisted as volunteer under Captain SPEIGER in Frederick County,Md. 1776. This was in Gen. BELL's Brigade and part of the "Flying Camp"; was in the Battle of White Plains.
Was born in Frederick Co., Md. in 1751. Since the war has lived in Montgomery Co., Maryland from whence he migrated to Allen County, Ky.
His wife was Catherine Space - they were married in Montgomery Co, MD Jan 31, 1779. The URL for the record is https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DYXQ-2ZR?i=548
Family Members
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
