Johann Niclaus Ganshorn

Served as a private in 1777 in Capt. John Hamilton's company; Cumberland county (Pennsylvania) militia. Hamilton led a company of volunteers, including Ganshorn. He lived in the part of Cumberland County that became, along with part of Mifflin County, Juniata County in 1831. (Mifflin County was created in 1789 from parts of Cumberland County and Northumberland County.)

His place of birth must have been Pennsylvania: his parents and elder sister Maria Katharina arrived in Philadelphia on 24 August 1750 on the Brother, which sailed from Rotterdam, making a stop at Cowes on the Isle of Wight (England).