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

Surnames Involved in Militia of Penna

HOKE
Andrew / Andreus  HOKE, direct Ancestor :

In the French and Indian War Andrew Hoke served with Braddock, and was with him at his defeat & surrender.   [Braddock was the General under whom George Washington served in 1755. Braddock attempted to capture Fort Duquesne , in Penna., from the French, but was killed and his army defeated.

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"1n 1780  He  was Private 2nd Class, in Capt. Reinhart Botts Company, 3rd. Battalion, Manchester Militia (PA, 6th Ser., Vol.2, P499). "2

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's also served 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

: Robert McCurdy served 1777-80

Within his Batallion is found:
Murdoch Kendrick
                          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/
 

From Derick S. Hartshornís HOKE pages:
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 aSargeant 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. .

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Peter  BENTZ  [Our Direct]

• 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.î

• "John Michael Bentz  [Peter BENTZ our Direct's (above) Older Brother, sometimes shown as his father, 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  provided by  Jane , his descendant, in email [Janes email is : oliver1250@hotmail.com], John Bentz Hamme presents John Michael [Michael] BENTZ as Peter Bentz's father.. Research indicates Michael Bentz was in fact Peter's older brother.

George Sheakley [Son in law to Robert McCurdy above listed and married to Margaret McCurdy]
 "YORK CO VOLUNT Fourth Battalion
Col. John Andrew, '78; Lt. Col. William Walker, '78, William Gillelan, '79; Major Simon Vanarsdale, '78, John King, '79. 1st Co., Capt.  John Calmery, '79; 1st Lt. William Hamilton, '78, Samuel Gillelan, '79; 2nd Lt. Joseph Pollock, '78; Ensign Adam Weaver, '78, Nathaniel Glassco, '79.
Rank & file, 58 men.

• 2nd Co., Capt. John King, '78, Robert Cample, '79; 1st Lt.  James  Eliot, '78, John Bodine, '79; 2nd Lt. Baltzer Tetrick, '78; Ensign William  Neely, '78, David Scott, '79. Rank & file, 64 men.
• 3rd Co., Capt. William Gilliland, '78, David Stockton, '79; 1st Lt. Matthew   Mitchell, '78, John Riner, '79; 2nd Lt. William Kelmery, '78; Ensign Nicholas Glascow, '78, Elisha  Gready, '79. Rank & file 64 men.
• 4th Co., Capt. Samuel Morrison, '78, Joseph Pollock, '79;   1st Lt. Peregin Mercer, '78, William Hamilton, '79; 2nd Lt. John Armstron; ensign Stephen K.  Giffin, '78, Adam Weaver,'79. Rank & file, 64 men.
• 5th Co., Capt. John McIlvain, '78, Josiah Carr, '77; 1st Lt. John  Range, '78, Lewis Vanarsdelin, '79; 2nd Lt. Francis Clapsaddle, '78;  Ensign James Geary, '78, John Watson, '79. Rank & file, 74 men.
• 6th Co., Capt. John Stockton, '78, James Elliot, '79; 1st   Lt. John Anderson,  '78 William Nealley, '79; 2nd Lt. David  Stockton, '78; Ensign Elisha Grady, '78, Thomas Prior, '79. Rank & file, 64 men.
• 7th Co., Capt. Samuel Erwin, '78, Andrew Paterson, '79; 1st Lt. William  Houghtelin, '78, Abraham Fletcher, '79; 2nd Lt. Henry Forney, '78;  Ensign William Reed, '78, William Fleming, '79. Rank & file, 79 men. 
• 8th Co., Capt. Thomas Stockton, '78, James Geery, '79; 2nd  Lt. Daniel   Mentieth, '78; Ensign Andrew Patterson, '78, George Sheakley, '79.

Rank & file, 59 men."  ³

<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. York Co. Volunteer Listings Part 5 from family history webpages by Helen S. Durbin and Susi C. Pentico and part of their Other Counties in Pa. Link Page  providing tax lists  Lancaster County 1771, Marriages Lancaster County From 1753-1854, and York Co. Volunteer Listings