Spalding - Allied Family Revolutionary War Ancestors
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ROSTER OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS
"Lest We Forget Those Who Forged Our Freedom"
John Herbert - fought at Battle of Monmouth, NJ, fell in battle.
JOSIAH HERBERT - drummer in VA Militia, fought Indians at Ft. Wheeling [Nat'l Archive Pension]
MOSES CLARKE SPALDING - Pvt. in SMCo Maryland Militia, 1777. [SMCo Md. Militia Record]
AARON SPALDING - fought in all major battles of Rev War; Sgt., wounded. [Nat'l Archive Pension]
BENNETT SPALDING - Pvt. in Col. J. Jordan's Regt., SMCo Md. Militia [SMCo Md. Militia Record]
CHRISTIAN SHINKLE - Pvt. PA militia, bur. Shinkle's Ridge Cem, Brown Co OH
During the Revolutionary War, fifteen Spaldings of St. Mary's County served in Maryland Militia, six served in Continental Line and seventeen signed the "Oath of Allegiance." John Aaron Spalding served in the Maryland Line under General William Smallwood for seven years and participated in major battles from Long Island to Yorktown. In the event the British won the war, any service to the Patriot cause meant forfeiture & confiscation of land & death by hanging as a traitor.
Spalding Revolutionary Service in Maryland Militia:
St. Mary's Co Militia by Col. J. Jordan "being an Acount of able bodyed male white persons from 16 to 50 years in 1777." Upper Battalion of Militia: 770 men Lower Battalion of Militia: 777 men. Total 1547 men.
HENRY SPALDING Sr. HENRY SPALDING Jr. PHILIP SPALDING RALPH SPALDING
ELEXIUS SPALDING THOMAS SPALDING Jr. BENNETT SPALDING BENEDICT SPALDING
EDWARD SPALDING MICHAEL SPALDING Jr. GEORGE SPALDING ENOCH SPALDING
WILLIAM SPALDING of James MOSES CLARKE SPALDING RICHARD SPALDING
Spaldings Who Served in 1st & 2nd MARYLAND LINE under Major General William Smallwood:
WILLIAM SPALDING Pvt 1st Maryland Line d. Nov 26, 1778;
AARON SPALDING Matross Co [Artillery] Pvt. Maryland Line and Sergeant, 2nd Maryland Line
Took Oath of Allegiance in Support of the War in St. Mary's Co:
JOHN BAPTIST SPALDING Sr., JOSEPH SPALDING, MICHAEL SPALDING Sr.
MOSES CLARKE SPALDING;
PETER SPALDING; RICHARD SPALDING Jr.
Supplied Provisions to Army in St.Mary's Co 1780: THOMAS SPALDING
Worcester Co MD Militia Capt. Patterson Company:
NEHEMIAH REDDEN, WM & ELIAKIM DUBBERLY , LITTLETON MELVIN
Sources Revolutionary War Information:
"Maryland Militia in Revolutionary War," by S.E. Clements & F. E. Wright," Family Line Pub., repr. 1994, Appendix B, pp. 210-215.
"Militia Lists of Daughterss of Founders & Patriots," Md. Hist. Soc.
"Rev Patriots of Calvert & St. Mary's Co, MD, 1775-1783," Henry C. Peden Jr, Fam. Line Pub., 1996, pp. 249-250.
"Era of American Revolution 1775-1789," Papenfuse, Stiverson, and Donaldson, Archives Div Hall of Records Com, Annapolis, MD, 1977, p. 420.
"St. Mary's Co MD in Am. Rev. Cal of Events, Edw. Beitzell p. 102, 168.