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Liberty Leading the People       Enacted to service March 7, 1777, The Penna Militia called for mandatory enrollment of all able bodied white men between 18-53 years of age. Many of our militia men served earlier in the voluntary Pennsylvanian Association for American liberty. TheAssociation  disbanded with formation of the militia.  Surnames in these pages:   HOKE, Andrew/ Andreus  [direct,; Veteran of French Indian war ] ,  Andrew's brothers John HOKE and Peter HOKE  also served in the Revolution  McCURDY , Robert [direct]. His service as Captain was from 1777-1780 Peter BENTZ  [Direct],  Peter is sometimes  is found as son of Michael BENTZ, also Patriot,  but In fact Peter is Michael's  younger brother and both Peter and Michael   were sons of  John Bentz

Andrew Hoke served with Braddock in the French and Indian War and was with him at his defeat & surrender at Fort Duquesne, Penna  Braddock was an English General under whom George Washington served in 1755 after Washington's  resignation subsequent to the loss of Fort Necessity . Braddock attempted to capture Fort Duquesne , in Penna., from the French, but was shot, and three days later died, while his army was defeated. Andrew Hoke and George Washington are among the colonialists who fought and survived this battle.

Hessian Reenactors Embellished

Andrew Hoke " was at Trenton at the Hessian defeat 1776 "At six o'clock on Christmas evening, the troops marched toward McKonkey's Ferry, nine miles north of Trenton. Many of  the ill-clad soldiers wrapped rags around their feet; others were shoeless. Boats collected at this strategic crossing were manned by ... a unit largely composed of fishermen from Marblehead, Massachusetts.  The passage of 2,700 American soldiers commenced at twilight,  but was impeded by snow fall  that turned to sleet and by heavy  ice floes in the river. Washinton, wrapped in his cloak, watched  silently from the shore. The artillery finally landed on the Jersey  bank of the Delaware at about three o'clock in the morning of  December 26, 1776, and  the march got underway an hour later. Two miles beyond the landing, at Bear's Tavern, Washington separated his army into two columns"1

In 1780 Andrew Hoke was "Private 2nd Class, in Capt. Reinhart Botts Company, 3rd. Battalion, Manchester Militia (PA, 6th Ser., Vol.2, P499)."2  Andrew Hoke's brother John {pa Archives}  and Peter  {DAR Records} are found in the sources mentioned  there with him and as follows: Andrew Hoke's  brothers Service  in the American Revolution: Brother John HOKE [ married Maria Sabina SWOPE]    resided in Manchester Twp., York Co. Pa. and served in the Rev. War as a private in Reinhart Bott's and Emanuel Herman's Companies, York Co. Militia 2nd. Batt'l. (Pa. Arch. Set.6 Vol. 2, p.619: Capt. E. Herman's 5th Co. 7th Class).  brother Johann Peter Hoke is listed in the Daughters of the American Revolution records as a Sargeant in Captain Rhinehart Bott's York County Militia, 1780-1782. He also appears in  Capt. Christian Stake's Company of Col. Michael Swoope's Battalion Nov. 16, 1776       Sgt. Peter Haak    Sgt. Henry Counselman  Sgt. John Dicks                Corp. John Adlum   David Parker           Hugh Dobbins                John Strohman      James Bay              Joseph Updegraff               Christian Strohman Daniel Miller          James Dobbins                Henry Miller       James Berry            Henry Hoff                Daniel Shultze     William Lukensî   From Derick S. Hartshornís HOKE pages: Peter Hoke ìresided in Manchester Twp., York Co. Pa. and served in the Rev. War as a private in Reinhart Bott's and Emanuel Herman's Companies, York Co. Militia 2nd. Batt'l. (Pa. Arch. Set.6 Vol. 2, p.619: Capt. E. Herman's 5th Co. 7th Class). Johann Peter Hoke is listed in the Daughters of the American Revolution records as a Sargeant in Captain Rhinehart Bott's York County Militia, 1780-1782 Others found on the web serving with Bott: Anthony Lehman, Pvt., Capt. Reinhart Bott's Company, 3rd Battalion, York County Militia, 20 Nov 1782. .

Within Robert McCurdy's Batallion are  found [ on line] :

• Murdoch Kendrick [under Col Boyd of Captain Robert McCurdy's Batallion]

                          The ancestors of Murdoch Kendrick, of the Philadelphia bar, were among the early German settlers
                           in the Conestoga and Pequea valleys of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, long prior to the
                          Revolution, and many members of the Kendrick family took an active part in that struggle. was
                          captain of a company in the First battalion of Lancaster county militia, COLONEL JOHN BOYD,
                          which was called into active service in May, 1777, and George, Martin, Isaac, and Henry Kendrick,
                          Jr.,were members of the same battalion.   http://www.clanboyd.info/state/Pennsylvania/colonial/

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• ìserved as a Private in the American Revolution, in Capt. Simon Copenheaverís Company, First Battallion of York Co., Associators.  He saw service with the Flying Camp in New Jersey about Perth Amboy. (see Prowell's History, p. 273) [Ed note: The preceeding indicates he served under Col Michael Swope, the Col of the flying camp bearing Swope's name, I believe] . He also was a private in Capt. Martin Shetter's Co., Fifth Class, York Co., Militia for the year 1782, (see Prowell's History, p. 273) He drew pension in 1818. While living in that part of Newberry Twp. Which later became a part of Conewago Twp., he was assessed in 1782 for 16 acres of land, 1 horse and 1 cow, his tax was 1 L. 2s. 6d. "

• "John Michael Bentz  [Peter BENTZ our Direct's (above) Older Brother,  shown as his father in  John Bentz Hamme Notes , nand therein and in primary records as well, named Michael, "served as a private in the American Revolution in Captain Jacob Beister's Company, Fifth Battallion, York County Associators, commanded by Col. William Rankin, (see Prowell's History, page 263). He was later a private in Captain Reinhart Bott's Company, Fifth Battallion, York Co. Militia from Manchester Township in 1780. (see Prowell's History, page 276). "
From John Bentz Hamme Notes  written ca 1944 .

 
• CAVEAT: Research indicates Michael Bentz was in fact Peter's older brother and a son [ like his brother Peter] of direct Johannes BENTZ and Maria Magdalena his wife

<sup>SOURCES:
1. Bergen County Historical Society Pages. THE CROSSING AND BATTLE AT TRENTON - 1776. Author:  Kevin Wright</sup>

2.  Jack Hoke in Gedcom download 042701 [Jack Hoke [jak@stn.net]]

3. John Bentz Hamme . Geneological notation recieved from Jane, a descendant. John Bentz Hamme's notations indicate he wrote ca 1944. See page dedicated herein entitled John Bentz Hamme