Andrew Lytle (1731 - 1785)

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Andrew was born in 1731. He passed away in 1785 from camp fever.^[1]

In the American Revolutionary War, Andrew served as Quartermaster, First Battalion of Miles' Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment (1 April 1776); Ensign and Regimental Quartermaster 13 Pennsylvania (24 October 1776 to 1st July 1778); First Lieutenant, 20th Pennsylvania (January 1777); transferred to Fifth Pennsylvania, 1 July 1778; transferred to First Pennsylvania on January 1, 1783.^[2]

He served as a First Lieutenant, Quartermaster with the 13th Pennsylvania Regiment in Valley Forge during the harsh winter of 1977-78 with George Washington and the American Continental Army.

Andrew Lytle was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. ^[3] The society, started in 1783, is an association of commissioned officers who served in the Continental Army and Navy or the French Army and Navy. Membership was passed down to the eldest son, after the death of the original member.

References

1. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKP-CK7R : 13 December 2015), Andrew Litle, 1785; Burial, Compass, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Saint Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery; citing record ID 49922177, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
2. ↑ "Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April 1775 to December 1783," page 273, F.B. Heitman, Washington, DC (1893).
3. ↑ "Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families, Volume 1," J.H. Beers (1898), page 290.

Sources

• “General Orders, 28 October 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-17-02-0631. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 17, 15 September–31 October 1778, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, pp. 612–613.]