Whiskey Rebellion? -----Original Message----- From: Dawn Desmond [mailto:dawndes@home.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:04 AM To: PADAUPHI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PADAUPHI] Militia drafts 1790-1800 On the chance that this is a dumb question, what on earth was going on that they were drafting militia in 1790? I've checked out a bunch of history sites and just have no idea. Dawn MarkleVon@aol.com wrote: > He was drafted into the Pennsylvania > militia, 1790-1800, to serve in Col. Thomas Forster's Regiment No. 1, Capt. > Sam Sherer's Company and received his pay under the name of Valentine > Aspenshade. P.A., s.6, V.5,P. 274 Digging up: Bowman, Brandt, Dohner, Doutrick, Emmerich, Ensminger, Espenshade, Etter, Fretz, Gabriel, Gingrich, Gloniger, Groff, Hart, Hoover, Hostetter, Kline, Koons, Kreider, Landis, Lavely, Lendel, Longnecker, Moyer, Nye, Oberholtzer, Philippi, Riffle, Shunk, Snavely, Stauffer, Strohminger, Thann ==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== KISS- Keep It Short & Simple