On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress received a report that two companies of riflemen had been raised in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, instead of one. The Congress resolved that “both the companies be taken into the continental service” and requested that 50 of the Pennsylvania recruits with prior military experience be sent to join General Washington in the siege of Boston. The majority of the men in the Pennsylvania rifle companies were from German-speaking communities in Western Pennsylvania and many were immigrants from Germany.
Sources: https://www.continentalline.org/CL/article-060204/;
And on this day 250 years ago at his home in Brooklyn, New York, farmer and miller Simon Boerum died from illness he had contracted in Philadelphia. Boerum was in Philadelphia as one of the members of New York’s delegation to the Continental Congress. He had returned home when he became ill.
On This Day In The Revolution 
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One of my first wife’s ancestors was Thomas Youngblood (originally “Jungblut”) who lived from 1745 until 1822. He married in Pennsylvania and lived in South Carolina. The name appears in both loyalist and patriot records. If either or both are the same Thomas Youngblood, it makes me wonder if he was one of the Hessians who deserted the British and became an American patriot?
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