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From: "Emmert F. Bittinger" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] DAR/Anabaptists
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:40:24 -0400
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Dwayne, Right On!! Emmert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dwayne Wrightsman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [BRE] DAR/Anabaptists


>A couple of additional points: First, in Pennsylvania, each township had
> one or more companies in the militia, each company organized by the
> "neighborhood" where one lived. Second, one did not need to sign up for
> the
> militia as every adult male through age 53 was automatically listed in his
> local militia. Being on the local militia list served as a census of the
> neighborhood, much like the local tax list. There was no "signing up."
> One
> had no choice. If one didn't want to attend musters, he had the choice of
> finding a substitute and/or paying fines. In the Pennsylvania Archives
> are
> pages and pages of militia men who paid fines instead of participating.
> Many if not most of the Lancaster County Brethren were on these lists of
> men
> who paid fines for missing musters. These are men whom historically have
> been granted patriot status by the DAR. I have cousins who are members of
> the DAR whose "patriot" ancestors never attended a single muster, let
> alone
> fire a shot. They were Brethren farmers who paid their fines.
>
> Dwayne Wrightsman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill & Lynn Sewell" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [BRE] DAR/Anabaptists
>
>
>>From a historical view point, many Brethren were in the militias not
>>because
> they supported the war, but to protect their land during the Am.
> Revolution.
> Also Pa had fines for those who did not sign up for the militias. Each
> county had its own militia. Most Germans already had long rifles, which
> were used for hunting game. They did not have uniforms which as pictured
> in
> so many books and many did not even fire a shot during the Rev. Lynn
> Hilty
> Sewell
>
>
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