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Benjamin Markley
Revolutionary War Vet Obituary
Extracted from
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 38, January 1, 1914
OBITUARY NOTICES OF PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION
COLLECTED BY WILLIAM SUMMERS
pages 443-60
[The following obituary notices of officers and privates who
served in the Continental Line and Militia of Pennsylvania during
the Revolution have been collected from the newspapers of Montgomery
county.]
Benjamin Markley.-It is with regret of no ordinary kind, we record
the death of our worthy and esteemed friend, Capt. Benjamin Markley,
a native of Montgomery county, who departed this sublunary sphere on
10th. July, at his residence in New Hanover township. He marched forth
a captain of a company in the War of the Revolution. He served as a
member of the Executive Council of the State, office of Justice of the
Peace and associate judge of this county.
-Norristown Herald, July 14, 1819.
[Buried in Lutheran Churchyard, New Hanover.]
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