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Oaths of Allegiance 
Valley Forge, 1778 - Page 8

On February 3, 1778, Congress, having taken into consideration the report of the special committee appointed to devise effectual means to prevent persons disaffected to the interest of the United States from being employed in any of the important offices thereof, resolved, That every officer who held or should thereafter hold a commission or office from Congress, should subscribe the oath or affirmation of allegiance.  These oaths or affirmations the commander-in-chief or any major or brigadier-general was authorized and directed to administer to all officers of the army or of any of the departments thereof.  Those mentioned in the following list (with a few exceptions) took the oath at Valley Forge in the spring of '78 before that encampment was broke, and who undoubtedly were members of the army actually in camp at Valley Forge the ever memorable winter of '77-'78.  The names are given in the order in which they appear in the volumes of original manuscripts from which they are taken.

Source:  "The Army and Navy of the United States 1776-1891", George Barrie Publisher, Philadelphia, 1890

Archibald Alexander, surgeon 10th Va. regt.
James Dillard, lieutenant 10th Va. regiment.
Joseph Blackwell, lieutenant 10th Va. regt.
John Robertson, adjutant 10th Va. regiment.
James Williams, lieutenant 10th Va. regt.
James Hamilton, lieutenant 10th Va. regt.
Thomas Blackwell, captain 10th Va. regt.
Samuel Baskerville, lieutenant 10th Va. regt.
Thomas Barbee, lieutenant 10th Va. regt.
Thomas Fox, lieutenant 10th Va. regiment.
John Gillison, lieutenant 10th Va. regiment.
Glough Shelton, captain 10th Va. regiment.
Thomas West, captain 10th Va. regiment.
Mackin Boswell, 1st lieutenant 10th Va. regt.
John Mountjoy, captain 10th Va. regiment.
John Fleet, 2d lieutenant 2d Va. regiment.
Thomas Armistead, lieutenant 1st Va. regt.
Abner Crump, captain 1st Va. regiment.
John Piper, lieutenant 1st Va. regiment.
Wyatt Coleman, lieutenant 1st Va. regiment.
Thomas C. Hoomes, lieutenant 1st Va. regt.
John Steel, ensign h Va. regiment.
Thomas Curtis, lieutenant 9th Va. regiment.
William Baxter, ensign 6th Penna. regiment.
Mathew Clay, lieutenant 9th Va. regiment.
Nathaniel G. Morris, captain 9th Va. regt.
David Miller, lieutenant 5th Va. regiment.
John Fitzgerald, lieutenant 5th Va. regiment.
Nicholas Currell, lieutenant 5th Va. regt.
Andrew Russell, captain 5th Va. regiment.
Thomas Gaskins, major 5th Va regiment.
William Pride, lieutenant 5th Va. regiment.
Lipscomb Norwell, captain 5th Va. regiment.
Robert Beale, lieutenant 5th Va. regiment.
Richard Kinnon, lieutenant 5th Va. regiment.
Edward Duff surgeon 5th Va. regiment.
William Fowler, captain 5th Va. regiment.
John Roney, adjutant 5th Va. regiment.
John Anderson, lieutenant 5th Va, regiment.
Samuel Colston, captain 5th Va. regiment.
William Bentley 1st lieut. 5th Va. regiment.
John McAdam, lieutenant 5th Va. regiment.
Nathaniel Anderson, lieutenant 5th Va. regt.
Alexander Balmain, chap. Muhlenberg's brig.
Uriah Springer, lieutenant 13th Va. regt.
John McKinley, lieutenant 13th Va. regt.
Arthur Gordon, lieutenant 13th Va. regiment.
James Neal, captain 13th Va. regiment.
Anthony Kiger, ensign 13th Va. regiment.
David Steel, captain 13th Va. regiment.
John Stoy, 1st lieutenant 2d Penna. regiment.
Jacob Ashmead, captain 2d Penna. regiment.
Henry Bicker, colonel 2d Penna. regiment.
David Jones, chaplain 2d Penna. regiment.
Thomas Craig, colonel 3d Penna. regiment.
Rudolph Gunner, lieut.-col. 3d Penna. regt.
Peter Smith, quartermaster 3d Penna. regt.
Percival Butler, lieutenant 3d Penn. regt.
John Marshall, lieutenant 3d Penna. regt regt.
James Tait, surgeon 3d Penna. regiment.
John Wigton, paymaster 3d Penna. regiment.
George McCalley, lieutenant 3d Penna. regt.
Thomas A. Moore, captain 3d Penna. regt.
Thomas Butler, captain 3d Penna. regiment.
James Christee, captain 3d Penna. regiment.
James Black, lieutenant 3d Penna. regiment.
James Armstrong, 1st lieut. 3d Penna. regt.
John Huling, major 3d Penna. regiment.
James Jones, surg. mate 4th Penna. regt.
Benjamin Fishburn, captain 4th Penna. regt.
Thomas Church major 4th Penna. regiment.
William Butler, lieut: col. 4th Penna. regt.
David Browne, lieutenant 4th Penna. regt.
E. Beatty, lieutenant 4th Penna. regiment.
William Henderson, lieut. 4th Penna. regt.
Edward F. Randolph, lieut. 4th Penna. regt.
Edmund B. Dickinson, major 1st Va. regt.
Callohill Minnis, captain and brigade major 1st Va. regiment.
Benjamin Green, paymaster 1st Regiment Light Dragoons.
Thomas Pemberton, lieutenant 1st Regiment Light Dragoons.
Thomas Holt, lieutenant 1st Va. regiment.
William Cunningham, captain 1st Va. regt.
Charles Yarbrough, lieutenant 1st Va. regt.
Joseph Selden, 1st lieut. 1st Va. regiment.
Jacob Valentine, captain 1st Va. regiment.
Charles Russell, 1st Va. regiment.
Richard Parker, col. 1st Va. regiment.
John Drury, lieutenant 1st Va. regiment.
Joseph Scott, lieutenant 1st Va. regiment.
Thomas Boune, lieutenant 1st Va. regiment.
Francis Minnis, lieutenant 1st Va. regiment.
Ballard Smith, lieutenant 1st Va. regiment.
Charles Pelham, captain 1st Va. regiment.
Alexander Skinner, surgeon 1st Va. regiment.
Marks Vandewall, lieutenant 1st Va. regt.
Alexander Dickey, mustermaster to General Greene's division.
Claiborne W. Lawson, captain 1st Va. regt.
John Sutter, paymaster 1st Va. regiment.
Samuel Selden, lieutenant 1st Va. regiment.
Rich'd Claiborne, brig. maj. to Gen. Weedon.
John Marks, captain 14th Va. regiment.
William Pointer, 2d lieut. 14th Va. regiment.
Burwell Green, ensign 14th Va. regiment.
Richard Warsham, 2d lieut. 4th Va. regt.
William Tucker, 2d lieutenant 4th Va. regt.
Joseph Conway. ensign 14th Va. regiment.
John Overton, captain 14th Va. regiment.
Abraham Buford, lieut.-col. 14th Va. Regt.
Abraham Maury, lieutenant 14th Va. regt.
Samuel I. Cabell, major 14th Va. regiment.
Nathaniel Terry, lieutenant 14th Va. regt.
David Merriwether, lieutenant 14th Va. regt.
John B. Johnson, lieutenant 14th Va. regt.
John Spencer, surgeon 14th Va. regiment.

  
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