"On 22 February 1777, he enlisted as a private in Captain Jeremiah Talbot's company of the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Army." (2)
(1) "Indentured Servant and Apprenticeship Records," Chester County, Pennsylvania Archives & Records Services, accessed 1 May 2007, quoting Chester County, Pennsylvania Court of Quarter Sessions.
(2) Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. Doyle, Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 261.