Here is some material from a book that I am writing (Price Family Time Line by Gary Glen Price). The material (a small part of the book) concerns Pennsylvanians who joined the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War. Enlistees received bounty land in Virginia for their service, which induced some to move after the war to the western frontier of Virginia. In the aftermath of Major General Edward Braddock's defeat on July 9-10, 1755 by Indian and French forces, many young men of the Pennsylvania frontier went to fight on the Virginia frontier--including some Friends (Quakers), whose membership in that pacifist church was consequently terminated. George Washington's friend Captain Christopher Gist of Virginia did not limit his recruitment of soldiers to the Virginia colony. Gist also recruited in Maryland and Pennsylvania. On October 10, 1755, Colonel George Washington wrote a letter to Gist, informing him that he had been granted a commission as a Captain in Colonel Washington's Virginia Regiment. At the time, Gist was in Philadelphia talking on Washington's behalf with Pennsylvania Governor Robert Hunter Morris, Secretary Richard Peters, and Benjamin Franklin (Writings of Washington, Vol. 1, p. 198; The Papers of George Washington, 1983, Vol. 2, pp. 98-99; Kenneth P. Bailey, Christopher Gist, 1976, p. 106, p. 184, fn. 9). Washington wrote that Gist was to head an unconventional group to be called a "Company of Scouts," consisting "much of active Woodsmen, capable of something adequate to your names." On November 19, 1755, three days after the murder by Indians of 13 neighboring settlers in Hanover township [east of Harrisburg, northwest of Hershey] (Montgomery, 1916, Vol. 1, p. 67), "Richard Rice"--dark-haired, Pennsylvania-born, 19 years old, 5' 6" tall, and a blacksmith by trade--was the youngest of five men who enlisted at Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the company of Virginia militia that Captain Christopher Gist commanded during the French and Indian War (Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, 1988, pp. 69, 114). The others were William Summers (23 years old, New England-born, tailor), Cornelius Henley (21 years, Ireland-born, hunter), Colloe/Colley Logan (30 years, Ireland-born, weaver), Patrick Hughes (22 years, Ireland-born, collier). On the following day they were joined in Lancaster by Thomas Dyer (29 years, England-born, tailor).