Gen William Irvine

Daughters of American Revolutiion Ancestor #: A060604

Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, BRIGADIER GENERAL

Birth: 11-3-1741 IRELAND

Death: 7-30-1804 PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA CO PENNSYLVANIA

Service Source: HEITMAN, HIST REG OF OFFICERS OF THE CONT ARMY DURING THE WAR OF THE REV 1775-1783, P 314

Service Description: 1) BGEN OF CONT ARMY; ALSO COL 6TH PA BATT & 7TH PA BATT, 2) PRISONER OF WAR

Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 stating:

"William Irvine served as general of brigade in the Continental Army. He was ordered by Congress, upon the recommendation of Washington, to command of the Western Department headquarters at Fort Pitt, Pittsburg."

William Irvine (November 3, 1741 – July 29, 1804) was an Irish-American physician, soldier, and statesman from Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Irvine was born near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in Ireland. He served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army and represented Pennsylvania in both the Continental Congress (1787–88) and the United States House of Representatives (1793–1795). During the war, he convinced Colonel William Crawford to come out of retirement and lead an expedition against Indians in villages along the Sandusky River, which ended in Crawford's brutal execution. The militia troops went back under the commande of John Rose, a Baltic German officer from Estonia.

He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was buried in a graveyard near Independence Hall. He was reburied in 1833 at the new Ronaldson's Cemetery. When it was closed in 1950s, the graves of a few Revolutionary War officers such as Irvine were identified by the rector of Old Swedes' and reburied at Gloria Dei Church cemetery.

His great-granddaughter Margaret Biddle married Thomas Biddle of the Biddle family of Philadelphia. Irvine was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Irvine v. Sims's Lessee.

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