Captain Thomas P. Whiteside

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DAR# A124547

Taken from the NSSAR application of Harry W. Kennedy, Jr., of Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware. This application was approved by Register General Ridgeway, NSSAR, on November 27, 1953. The Certificate of Membership was issued on December 21, 1953:

In 1776, Thomas P. Whiteside was commissioned as a Captain in the Revolutionary War under Col. Thomas Porter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 3rd Battalion Lancaster Co. Militia. On August 13, 1776, went to the front with his company and joined up with the army in the State of New Jersey. He was in the battle of Princeton, Trenton, and Monmouth, losing a hand in his service. Probably at the Battle of Monmouth

Col. Thos (abbreviation for Thomas in military records) Porter was Capt. Thomas Whiteside's Brother in law......Col Porter is my Uncle. Margaret Jean Whiteside (Porter) is my Grandmother.....the sister of Col Thomas Porter.
Capt Thomas Whiteside is NSSAR ancestor # 17951

Within the application is listed a son, James, married to Elizabeth Dickey.

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PENN ARCHIVES Series 5 VOL 7, pg 1063

DAR RECORD: CAPTAIN THOMAS WHITESIDE'S COMPANY OF LANCASTER COUNTY PA, MILITIA, ON AUGUST 13, 1776 WAS MUSTERED INTO COLONEL THOMAS PORTER'S 3RD BATT, LANCASTER CO. MILITIA, REFER: TO PENN ARCHIVES, VOL 13, 2ND SERIES, PAGE 327. CAPTAIN THOMAS WHITESIDE LOST HIS LEFT HAND IN BATTLE. DAR ALSO INDICATE THOMAS WAS BORN IN ENGLAND. DAR:REFERENCE NUMBER 099924 DAR:REFERENCE NUMBER 156446 DAR:REFERENCE NUNBER 122838 CAPT. THOMAS WHITESIDE SETTLED IN COLERAINE TWP. ABOUT 1760. HE WAS APPOINTED ONE OF THE JUSTICES FOR COLERAINE AND BART TWP. AND REMAINED FOR ABOUT 30 YRS. REF: CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY OF 45 MEN IN THE BATTALION OF COL. THOMAS PORTER, PA MILITIA, MUSTERED AUG 13, 1776, AND MARCHED TO THE JERSEYS. OFFICIAL RECORDS AND NAMES OF MEN IN HIS COMPANY GIVEN IN PA ARCHIVES VOL. 13 2ND SERIES, PAGE 327. ALSO "THE WHITESIDES" OF COLERAINE PA. THE REVOLUTIONARY CAPTAIN AND CONGRESSMAN. MINUTES OF OCTOBER MEETING 1912, LANCASTER CO. PA. HISTORICAL SOCIETY, VOL. 17, NO.8 ; WILL OF CAPTAIN THOMAS WHITESIDE, M.D.(DAR DOES NOT RECONIZE THOMAS WHITESIDE AS A M.D.), AND JUDGE DATED MARCH 13, 1804. WILL BOOK J. VOL. I, PAGE 363 - COURT HOUSE, LANCASTER, PA. MARRIED 1748. CHILDREN MENTIONED IN WILL - JOHN MARRIED MARY ELTON. REBECCA MARRIED HUGH MCCONNELL; JAMES MARRIED ELIZABETH DICKEY; MARTHA MARRIED DAVID MCCONNELL; ABRAHAM MARRIED ISABELLA ROSS; VIOLET MARRIED SAMUEL MCCONNELL; MARY MARRED COL. ROBERT ELDER; (CONTINENTAL ARMY); ELIZABETH MARRIED BENJAMIN DICKEY. THOMAS. JR. MARRIED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. SERVICES - MEMBER COMMITTEE OF SAFETY LITTLE BRITAIN TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER CO. PA. SEE RUPPS AND ELLIS AND EVANS HISTORY LANCASTER COUNTY. ACTIVE SERVICE IN BATTLES OF PRINCETON, TRENTON, MONMOUTH. LOST AN ARM (OR HAND) IN ONE OF THESE BATTLES. DR. EGLE SAYS IN BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND. SEE DR. EGLES NOTES AND QUER IES AND HISTORY OF MEDICAL FRATRENITY OF LANCASTER CO.; RUPPS AND ELLIS AND EVANS HISTORIES. CAPTAIN THOMAS WHITESIDE WAS PRACTICING MEDICINE IN 1750 AND WAS COMMISSIONED ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S JUSTICES IN 1773 OR 1774. HIS BROTHER ABRAHAM WAS ALSO A JUSTICE. THE WIFE OF WILLIAM WHITESIDE, JANET MONTGOMERY WAS SISTER OF CATHERINE MONTGOMERY, WIFE OF JAMES CALHOUN. SHE ALSO WAS A SISTER OF ..... CALDWELL, MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER OF JOHN C. CALHOUN. THE MOTHER OF ISABELL ROSS WHO MARRIED ABRAHAM WHITESIDE WAS ISABEL SMITH (WIFE OF CAPTAIN JOHN ROSS) WHO WAS THE SISTER OF MARY SMITH WHO MARRIED ROBERT FULTON, FATHER OF ROBERT FULTON, OF STEAMBOAT FAME. A COUSIN, LIEUT. THOMAS WHITESIDE BORN IN LANCASTER CO., PA., IN 1758 DIED AT CAMBRIDGE, NY, IN 1830. = NO BEARING ON THE FOREGOING. PA ARCH S-4, VOL. 1., PAGE 103 EGLE'S "PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGIES" PAGES 191-199, 209. CHILD ADDED 9/9/1988 - THOMAS WHITESIDE SR IS LISTED AS TAKING THE OATH IN PA ARCH S-2, VOL.13, PAGE 461. SAR PAPER OF ARTHUR DARE WHITESIDE LISTS 9 CHILDREN OF THOMAS'S WILL INCLUDING THOMAS JR. (2184) REF: GENEALOGICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY "LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, TAX LISTS 1751,1756,1757,1958" BY DR. ALBERT H. GERBERICH DICKINSON COLLEGE, CARLISLE, PA AND DR. GAIUS M. BRUMBAUGH WASHINGTON DC. 1933-PP 21. THOMAS WHITESIDE WROTE HIS WILL 12 MAR 1804 AND IT WAS APPROVED 5 NOV 1805.

Some of Thomas's children are buried in Union Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Kirkwood, Lancaster County, PA Here's the tombstone. It is believed that Captain Thomas Whiteside is buried there also. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83367510/abraham-whiteside Here's is a Revolutionary war website showing Captain Thomas Whiteside is buried there also http://www.passar.org/graves/patriots_w.html

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:9SDK-PKZ : accessed 2016-08-11), entry for Thomas Whiteside Sr-Capt Rev War, submitted by dbowers2728225.)

Very interesting article....the Whitesides of Colerain. It talks about Thomas....Click below. https://lancasterhistory.org/images/stories/JournalArticles/vol17no...

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