Category Request: 2nd Battalion, Berks County Militia, American Revolution

Question

I am requesting a category for the 2nd Battalion of Berks County, Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolution.  Not sure if it makes a difference, but this would be for the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Regiment.

Answer 1

Hello Ron, Which one of the Pennsylvania regiment was this Battalion a part of? or what is the Name if the veteran you are researching?

Not sure if this Web site will Help but have a look

https://revolutionarywar.us/continental-army/pennsylvania/

Comments

It was Capt. Henry Christ's company, under Col. Samuel Miles, so maybe 13th Pennsylvania Regiment.  My link above will take you to the Muster rolls.

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It appears to have been originally the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment  - or Miles' Regiment - until merged with the Pennsylvania State Battalion of Musketry to become the 13th Pennsylvania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Pennsylvania_Regiment

There is a category for the 13th Pennsylvania:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:13th_Pennsylvania_Regiment%2C_Continental_Army%2C_American_Revolution

I thought I read somewhere that there was an effort to keep categories at the regimental level.

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I think that I have found the correct category, but it looks as though our two subcategories of Pennsylvania Battalions were merged into the 13th Pennsylvania?

Category: Pennsylvania Battalions, American Revolution

Answer 2

The Rifle Regiment is currently categorized under "Category: Miles' Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, American Revolution." That is the category you should use for a person who served in the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Regiment.

2nd Battalion, Berks County Militia is a different regiment, and probably not the one you want to use. (No category currently exists for 2nd Battalion, Berks County Militia, but we could create one, given a profile that needs it.)

Betty Norman

Comments

Thanks to all for your links.  This has been a very enlightening history lesson for me.