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Source: 'History of the Brodhead Family' by Luke
Brodhead
Luke Brodhead was a captain during a greater part of the Revolution
and was commissioned a colonel the same day as his brother the
general. He was an intimate friend of Lafayette, and was desperately
wounded at the battle of Brandywine. He was appointed magistrate
during the Connecticut trouble in Wyoming, though still residing
in Smithfield. He married Elizabeth HARRISON and had five sons
and three daughters; Thomas, John, Luke, Daniel, Alexander, Elizabeth,
Ann and Rachael. He dies in Smithfield in 1805.
Source:1799-1851 Marriages & Deaths Northampton County Newspaper
Extracts
Vol. I - page 29 - Northampton Farmer and Easton Weekly Advertiser
1806
Saturday Morning June 28
Died - On Thursday the 19th inst in the 65th year of his age.
Captain Luke Broadhead. He was an active patriot in the 1st Pennsylvania
rifle regiment which marched to Boston in 1775, in opposition
to Tyranny. He was wounded, and made prisoner on Long Island,
where he experienced much savage cruelty in a British prison ship,
and afterwards served his country with reputation, and since had
the felicity of participating the Independence of this free and
happy nation, so eminently acquired and established by the (extract
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Source: Biographical Sketch and Ancestry of Robert Packer Brodhead
Luke, born 1737, died June 19, 1806. Luke Brodhead was another
of this family numbered among the heros of the Revolution. He enlisted
in the spring of 1776 as Third Lieutenant, First American Rifle
Regiment, Colonel William Thompson commanding. He was appointed
second lieutenant, Oct. 24, 1776, in Major Simon Williams regiment.
He was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Long Island.
Later he was commissioned Captain of the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment
under Colonel Magaw in the Continental service. He retired in 1778
incapacitated by wounds received in battle. He married Elizabeth
HARRISON of Pennsylvania. One of their sons, Rev. John Brodhead,
became an eminent divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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