Patriots Killed and Taken Prisoner
on 1781 Aug 24 at Lochry's Defeat

U.S. Gen. George Rogers Clark requested additional troops for an attack on the British fort at Detroit. Colonel Archibald Lochry led one hundred Pennsylvania militiamen from old Westmoreland County to join Clark. They followed the Ohio River downstream from Fort Pitt. About 4 miles southwest of present-day Lawrenceburg IN Lochry's force was attacked and overwhelmed by an Amerindian force led by Joseph Brant, which killed 39 of the militia and captured 64. The following lists were transcribed by Charles Edwards (Ohio Society SAR) from the historical markers shown below. The Riverview Cemetery is in Aurora, Indiana. For more recent, completely documented lists see the transcriptions of British accounts by Judy Longley [on MyRootsPlace].

Those Killed at the Lochry Battle 1 ALLlSON, WILLIAM -- SERGEANT 2 BAILEY, JOHN -- PRIVATE 3 BARRICKMAN, PETER -- PRIVATE 4 BLACK, JAMES -- SERGEANT 5 BROOKS, JOSIAS -- PRIVATE 6 BURNS, JOHN -- PRIVATE 7 BURRIS, EBENEZER -- SERGEANT 8 BUTCHER, GEORGE -- PRIVATE 9 CAHILL, DANIEL -- ENSIGN 10 CAIN, WILLIAM -- PRIVATE 11 CAMPBELL, WILLIAM -- CAPTAIN 12 CORN, JOHN -- PRIVATE 13 CRAWFORD, JOSEPH -- PRIVATE 14 DELLINGER, DAVID -- PRIVATE 15 DOUGAN, ROBERT -- PRIVATE 16 ERSKIN, ARCHIBALD --PRIVATE 17 ERWIN, ADAM -- PRIVATE 18 EVANS, SAMUEL -- SERGEANT 19 FORSYTH, JOHN -- SERGEANT 20 GALLAGHER, HUGH -- SERGEANT 21 GIBSON, JOHN -- PRIVATE 22 HARDIN, ZENAS -- PRIVATE 23 HUDSON, WILLIAM -- PRIVATE 24 LAMB, MATHEW -- PRIVATE 25 LOCHRY, ARCHIBALD -- COLONEL 26 MAXWELL, ALEXANDER -- ENSIGN 27 MCKINLEY, JOHN -- PRIVATE 28 MCRIGHT, JAMES -- PRIVATE 29 MECHLIN, PETER -- PRIVATE 30 MILLIGAN, JOHN -- PRIVATE 31 PATTON, ISAAC -- CORPORAL 32 PETERS, JONAS -- PRIVATE 33 PERSHING, JOHN -- PRIVATE 34 RALPH, EPHRAIM -- ENSIGN 35 ROW, JOHN -- PRIVATE 36 SMITH, JOHN -- PRIVATE 37 STEWART, JOHN -- PRIVATE 38 STRATTON, JOHN --PRIVATE 39 YOUNG, JOHN -- PRIVATE Those Taken Prisoner at the Lochry Battle 1 AIKENS, SOLOMON -- PRIVATE 2 ALLENTON, JOHN 3 ANDERSON, ABRAHAM 4 ANDERSON, ISAAC -- LIEUTENANT 5 ATKINSON, THOMAS -- PRIVATE 6 BAKER, MELCHIOR -- LIEUTENANT 7 BURNS, ALEXANDER -- PRIVATE 8 CATT, JOHN -- PRIVATE 9 CLARKE, WILLIAM -- PRIVATE 10 CONNELY, PETER -- PRIVATE 11 COYLE, MANNASSEH -- PRIVATE 12 CRACRAFT, CHARLES -- MAJOR 13 CRAIG, SAMUEL, JR. --LIEUTENANT 14 DUNSETH, JAMES 15 ERWIN, JOSEPH 16 FAST, CHRISTIAN --PRIVATE 17 FERRELL, JOHN -- PRIVATE 18 FISHER, MATHIAS -- PRIVATE 19 FLEMING, RICHARD 20 FRANKS, HENRY -- PRIVATE 21 GUTHRIE, JOHN --ADJUTANT 22 HAIRE, MICHAEL -- PRIVATE 23 HICE, GEORGE -- PRIVATE 24 HILEY, ABRAHAM -- PRIVATE 25 HUNTER, JOHN -- PRIVATE 26 HUNTER, PATRICK -- ENSIGN 27 HURST, WILLIAM 28 JAMES, THOMAS -- PRIVATE 29 KEAN, JAMES 30 LAWRENCE, JACOB -- PRIVATE 31 LAWRENCE, VALENTINE -- PRIVATE 32 LE FEVER, SAMUEL -- PRIVATE 33 LEVER, John -- Private 34 LEWIS, Ezekiel -- Private 35 MARRS, William 36 MARSHALL, William -- Private 37 MASON, George -- Private 38 MCCARTY, Dennis -- Private 39 MCCLOUD, Norman 40 MCGIN, Charles 41 MCPHERSON, James -- Private 42 MILLER, Michael 43 MOORE, Hugh -- Private 44 MURPHY, Patrick 45 ORR, Robert -- Captain 46 OWRY, Adam -- Private 47 PORTER, John -- Private 48 QUIGLEY, Cary 49 RISLEY, Elihu -- Private 50 ROARK, William -- Private 51 ROBINSON, Joseph -- Lieutenant 52 SCOTT, James -- Lieutenant 53 SENCE, John 54 SHANNON, Samuel -- Captain 55 SMITH, JOHN -- PRIVATE 56 STAKEHOUSE, JOHN -- PRIVATE 57 STEERS, HUGH -- PRIVATE 58 STOKELY, THOMAS -- CAPTAIN 59 THOMPSON, WILLIAM 60 TRIMBLE, JOHN -- SERGEANT 61 WALLACE, RICHARD -- QUARTERMASTER 62 WATSON, ROBERT -- PRIVATE 63 WILSON, ROBERT 64 WORTHINGTON, WILLIAM -- PRIVATE

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Those prisoners who returned and settled in Ohio ANDERSON, ISAAC -- In 1812 he moved his family first to the frontier settlement of Cincinnati and a few years later to a farm near the mouth of Indian Creek in Butler County, Ohio where he spent the remaining years of his life, dying at the age of 80 years. He is buried in Venice Cemetery (#74, B-23) Layhigh Road about 1 mile from Venice in Ross Township, Butler County, Ohio (off Route 128 in Ross). CATT, JOHN CRACRAFT, CHARLES (MAJOR) -- He died in 1824 in Washington County, Ohio. FAST, CHRISTIAN -- In later life, he moved into northeastern Ohio. He is buried in Fast Cemetery on the Fast farm in Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio. FRANKS, HENRY -- In later life he moved into northeastern Ohio and died in Washington County, Ohio. He is buried in Grandview Cemetery, New Metamoris, Ohio. County, Ohio. HAIRE, MICHAEL HILEY, ABRAHAM -- He later moved to Kentucky and then to Western Indiana. LAWRENCE, JACOB -- He died in 1854 in Adams County, Ohio. He is buried in Hopewell, Adams County, Ohio. MARRS, WILLIAM -- He died in 1847 in Columbiana County, Ohio. MCPHERSON, JAMES -- He died in 1837 in Logan County, Ohio. He is buried in a private cemetery, off Route 33, northwest from Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. ROBINSON, JOSEPH -- In 1785 he was leading prospective settlers up the Great Miami River through the same country in which he had been a prisoner. STEERS, HUGH -- He later settled in Boone County, Kentucky.