Surgeon with 3rd Penn. Battalion, captured at Ft. Washington Nov 1776

   Marriage of Andrew & Jane Forrest, names & birth dates of children:

   DAR application #143306, Mrs. Jennie Graydon Knox Williams, 1918, Los

   Angeles CA.; DAR application #51526, Mrs. Anna Maria Best Robinson,

   1905, Philadelphia PA.

   "Commissioned 8 Jan 1776 as 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd Pennsylvania Battalion,

   Continental Army. Captured 16 Nov 1776 at Ft. Washington

   (Manhattan). Exchanged 25 Oct. 1780. He retired from service, not

   being able to get his rank. He was entitled to captaincy from 10 Apr

   1778, according to Col. Cadwalader. He resided at Harrisburg for

   many years after the war, removed to Milton, PA where he was practicing

   medicine in 1814. Died at Danville, PA shortly thereafter."

   (( "Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army 1775-1783,"

   by Heitman, 1914, page 233.))

   (( "Pennsylvania Archives," 5th Series, Vol. II, page 51; page 127.))

   "b. 1754, d.p. 1814. m. Jane Graydon. Dr. CPT PA."

   (("DAR Patriot Index," 1966, Vol. I, page 245.))

   Lt. Andrew Forrest, 3rd Regiment (1776) Pennsylvania, on "list of Capt.

   Graydon's company taken from payroll to 1 Sept 1776. List dated

   Phila. 24 Feb 1781.....Stoppages per the order of Col. Bowdnot..."

   ((Revolutionary War service records, National Archives.))

   "Surgeon from Berks County, PA, in Col. Hiester's Company."

   (("Pennsylvania Archives," 5th Series, Vol. 5, page 234.))

   Dr. Andrew Forrest listed as "surgeon" in 6th Battalion, 3rd Regiment,

   Berks County (PA) Militia, commanded by Lt. Col. Joseph Hiester.

   "Hiester's Battalion" on active duty 10 Aug 1780 - 9 Sept 1780.

   (("History of Berks County, Penn., in the Revolution, 1774-1783," by M.

   Montgomery, 1894, p. 130.))

   Worked at (owned?) an apothacary shop in Berks County, PA in 1780.

   (("Pennsylvania Archives," 3rd Series, Vol. 18, page 396.))

   First medical doctor residing in Danville, PA (no date). Patron of

   the Mahoning School in Danville.

   (("History of Danville," by Brower, pages 28 & 37.))

   A "Capt. Andrew Forrest" applied for and received bounty land as pension

   on 16 Mar 1790.

   ((National Archives))

   Andrew Forrest listed as "taxable" in 1818.

   (("History of Northumberland County, Penn." by Bell, 1891, p. 552.))

   "Forest" (sic) listed among family names conspicuous in early records of

   the Methodist Episcopal Church in Milton, PA.

   ((ibid., p. 571.))