Lucas Selover

DAR Ancestor #: A101944

From Hadler, 1942, pg. 79:

"md Neeltje ... and had their second son baptized at Six Mile Run D.R.Ch. List of children is not complete but the others we have found were baptized at New Brunswick D.R.Ch.

"From records of Adjutant General, Trenton, N.J.: LUKE SLOVER served as a Lieutenant, Capt. Waglum's Co., Second Regt. Middlesex Co. Militia; served one month in the summer of 1776.

"The family story says that Luke was in the Battle of L.I. which took place in August, 1776. He was captured and put on a prisonship in N.Y. Harbor, where he died of yellow fever and was "buried overboard." The record of his service fits this story but we have no further proof. Four of his sons served in the Revolution, -- Jacobus (James), Isaac, Daniel and John. -- as well as his son-in-law Asher Bissett."

There is no mention of Lucas Selover in "The Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War," by William S. Stryker, 1872, although there is very little mention of the 2nd Regiment, Middlesex County Militia, in the book. In 1776 county militias served one month rotating enlistments, so that they could maintain their farms and homes. Once the war started in earnest, militias were reorganized under different rules.