A Return of Officers in Colonel Haller's Battalion of the Flying Camp, October 5, 1776
Colonel: Henry Haller
Lieutenant Colonel: Nicholas Lotz, prisoner August 26, 1776; discharged September 10, 1779.
Major: Edward Burd, prisoner, August 26, 1776.
Quartermaster: Lieutenant Paul Kerber, recruiting at Amboy.
First Company
Captain: Joseph Hiester
Ensign: Nicholas Brown, at home, sick.
Second Company
Captain: Jacob Graule
Third Company
Captain: George May
Ensign: Jacob Dick
Fourth Company
Captain: Jacob Maurer, taken prisoner at Long Island.
Fifth Company
Captain: John Ludwig
Sixth Company
Captain: John Old
Seventh Company
Captain: --- Douglass
Lieutenant: John King
Eighth Company
Captain: Peter Decker, prisoner, August 26, 1776.
[Offers lost in the engagement on Long Island: Lieutenant colonel, major, three captains and one lieutenant.]
Source: Miscellaneous Rolls of Associators, Militia and Flying Camp, 1776-1783. Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Volume XV, William H. Egle, ed., Harrisburg: E.K. Meyers, State Printer, 1893, pp. 633-634.
Submitted by: Nancy.
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