John Q. Public - Historical Investigations Season 1 Episode 4: CCM 1777

Historical Investigation into the Cumberland County Militia conceived from the Pennsylvania Militia Act of 17 March 1777. Who were they and what did they do?

Special thanks to the following:
1. Bill Dixon, Anthology Major and Archeological Technician
2. Mike Zarret of Bloomsburg Towne Camera
3. D. Stokes Piercy, Professor of Film, ETSU (Editing)
4. The Conococheague Inistitutue, Mercesburg PA
(For letting me steal some of their living history photographs)
5. Northumberland County Historical Society, Sunbury, PA
6. The Jacobsburg Historical Society of Nazareth, PA

Flag:
Device (Benjamin Franklin) - The Pennsylvania Associators 1747-1777

The Music utilized in the video is not mine:
"Comin' Thro' The Rye" by Bear McCreary

References:
1. Pennsylvania Heritage Online Website - Cumberland County Militia
https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Revolutionary-War-Militia-Cumberland.aspx

2. Book: Muster Rolls Relating to the Associators and Militia of the County of Cumberland

3. Book: Official History of the Militia and the National Guard of the State of Pennsylvania, Major William P. Clarke (1909)

4. Document: The Militia of Northumberland County During the Revolution, BY CHARLES FISHER SNYDER, Presented before the Society March 12, 1948, Downloadable/Digital: https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/api/collection/digitalbks2/id/14990/download