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Données personnelles John Michael Piper Maj. Gen. Sen. 

• Il est né le 30 décembre 1729 dans Croghan, County Offaly, Ireland.
• Profession: Lieutenant Colonel, Major General Militia.
• Il est décédé le 31 janvier 1816 dans Hopewell Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States, il avait 86 ans.
• Il est enterré apres 31 janvier 1812 dans Piper Cemetery, Cypher, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.
• Un enfant de John Michael Piper et Margaret P Cleeland

Famille de John Michael Piper Maj. Gen. Sen.

Il est marié avec Catherine Elizabeth Lusk.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1770 à Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States, il avait 40 ans.

Spouse: Catherine Elizabeth Piper (born Lusk)

Enfant(s):

1. Mary Elizabeth Piper  1771-1837
2. William Piper  1774-1852 
3. James Piper  1775-1778
4. John Piper  1777-1777
5. John Piper  1779-1864 
6. Jane Piper  1781-1827 
7. Elizabeth Piper  1782-1837 
8. James Piper  1784-1867 
9. Alexander Moore Piper  1786-1868 
10. David Piper  1788-1849 
11. Esther Piper  1791-1791
12. Thomas C Piper  1794-1853

Notes par John Michael Piper Maj. Gen. Sen.

Several of the pioneers of this region were among the most distinguished men of their day, while a considerable number, whose reputations were not bounded by county limits, have claimed Hopewell township as their birthplace or early home. A name well known to those familiar with the history of this part of the state is that of Col. John Piper. He was lieutenant-colonel of Bedford county during the revolutionary war, and in his official capacity was actively engaged in protecting the frontier settlements from the hostile encroachments of the Indians. In 1800 he was appointed major-general of militia. He was born in Ireland, December 30, 1729, and died in Bedford county, January 31, 1816. In early life he came to this country and lived for a time at Shippensburg. Prior to 1771 he removed to Bedford county, and settled upon the stream now known as Piper's run. A log fort was erected at the southern end of Black Oak ridge, near Col. Piper's house, and at various times during the revolution was occupied by troops sent to protect the settlers. In 1777 (as is supposed from a date upon a brick in the chimney) Col. Piper erected a substantial stone house of two stories, to which many settlers, at various periods, fled for refuge, until the building became known as Fort Piper, as it is still called. The old house is remarkably well preserved, and its strong oaken woodwork seems capable of enduring as long as the masonry.

Col. John Piper owned a considerable body of land, which was afterward divided into five farms, upon which five of his sons lived. His son John lived in the old stone house until quite aged, when he built the frame house in which his son, James Piper, Esq., now lives [1884]. "Fort Piper" is now the residence of Samuel, son of Squire James Piper.

During the Indian troubles of the revolutionary period, a man named Shorley, who lived with Col. Piper, was shot and scalped by the Indians while he was fishing in Yellow creek.

Under the date May 19, 1781, Lieut. George Ashman writes to President Reed: "On Friday the fourth of this instant the Indians came into this county, killed one man, a woman and two children, and took one man prisoner, within one mile of Col. John Piper's, on Yellow creek;" but does not give the names of the victims.

(Source: "The History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania, 1884," Waterman, Watkins & Co., p. 346.)

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Came with his father's family to Cumberland Valley, Pa. where they settled not far from Shippensburg. Shortly after his marriage he moved to what is now Bedford County on what became known as Piper's Run in Colerain Township. Served in the French and Indian War and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Second Battalion of the Pennsylvania Provisional Regiment on 6/20/1763. He was a Provisional Justice for Bedford County in 1773. An outspoken Patriot...

From United States Military Academy Annual Reunion.

http://books.google.com/books?id=BXk7AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA39&lpg=RA2-PA39&dq=%22colonel+john+piper%22&source=bl&ots=anc9lptBCT&sig=wtdOvembL9BhlNN1lYk1QNo8_UU&hl=en&ei=k29oS4CqHdCWtgfh9sD2Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22colonel%20john%20piper%22&f=false

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Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 states he "served as member of Provincial Constitutional Convention and as colonel in the Pennsylvania militia."

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