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Benjamin Burd

Benjamin Burd was born at Fort Littleton, Bedford County, Pennsylvania in 1755 and was made a lieutenant in the regiment of rifleman under Colonel Thompson at the age of twenty years. He was in several fights near Boston in 1775. He was at the disastrous battle of Long Island and behaved with great gallantry. In 1777 he was commissioned captain in the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment. He was at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth and in every instance stood highly approved by his superior officers. At Germantown he acted as Major. In 1779 he was with the detachment that dispersed the Indians up the Hudson and burnt their towns. After the war he located at Fort Littleton, and later removed to Bedford where he lived highly esteemed for his past noble services, uniform virtue and correctness in the discharge of all the duties of a life well spent. He died at Bedford on the 5th of October, 1823.

Source: The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson