Brodhead, Luke

1737 - 1806  (69 years)

• Name	Brodhead, Luke  [1]
  Birth	1737	Smithfield Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2]
  Christening	22 May 1741	Smithfield Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Appointments / Titles	Captain
  Death	19 Jun 1806	Smithfield Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I15297	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Brodhead, Daniel,   b. 20 Apr 1693, Marbletown, Ulster, New York, USA d. 22 Jul 1755, Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Wyngaart, Hester Gerritse,   b. 1697, Albany, Albany, New York, USA d. 14 Mar 1759, Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	21 Sep 1719	Albany, Albany, New York, USA   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F3466	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Harrison, Elizabeth,   b. UNKNOWN
  Marriage	1764	USA   [2]
  Family ID	F7602	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1737 - Smithfield Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA Christening - 22 May 1741 - Smithfield Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA Marriage - 1764 - USA Death - 19 Jun 1806 - Smithfield Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  • Military Service. 4 Luke Brodhead was a captain during the greater part of the Revolution and was commissioned a colonel the same day as his brother the general. He was an intimate friend of Lafayette, and was desperately wounded at the battle of Brandywine. He was appointed magistrate during the Connecticut trouble in Wyoming, though still residing in Smithfield. He married Elizabeth Harrison and had five sons and three daughters; Thomas, John, Luke, Daniel, Alexander, Elixabeth, Ann and Rachael. He dies in Smithfield in 1805. • Military Service. 5 Luke, born 1737, died June 19, 1806. Luke Brodhead was another of this family numbered among the heros of the Revolution. He enlisted in the spring of 1776 as Third Lieutenant, First American Rifle Regiment, Colonel William Thompson commanding. He was appointed second lieutenant, Oct. 24, 1776, in Major Simon Williams regiment. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Long Island. Later he was commissioned Captain of the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment under colonel Magaw in the Continental service. He retired in 1778 incapacitated by wounds received in battle. He married Elizabeth Harrison of Pennsylvania. One of their sons, Rev. John Brodhead, became an eminent divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church. • Alt. Birth, 1737. 5 • Census: 1790 US Federal, 1790, Lower Smithfield, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. 6 Luke Brodhead 3 free white males under 16 2 free white males 16 and over 3 free white females • Obituary: Northampton Farmer and Easton Weekly Adviser, 28 Jun 1806. 2 Died - On Thursday the 19th inst in the 65th year of his age. Captain Luke Broadhead. He was an active patriot in the 1st Pennsylvania rifle regiment which marched to Boston in 1775, in opposition to Tyranny. He was wounded, and made prisoner on Long Island, where he experienced much savage cruelty in a British prison ship, and afterwards served his country with reputation, and since had the felicity of participating the Independence of this free and happy nation, so eminently acquired and established by the (extract stops here)... Luke married Elizabeth HARRISON [9620] [MRIN: 3435]. Sources 1 Nellie / Alma Brodhead Letter, abt 1970. 2 1799-1851 Marriages & Deaths Northampton County Newspaper Extracts - Vol. II, Vol. 1, page 29. 3 FamilySearch.org, "Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950" GS Film: 599308; System Origin: Pennslvania-ODM. 4 Luke Brodhead. 5 Biographical Sketch and Ancestry of Robert Packer Brodhead. 6 1790 US Federal Census, Lower Smithfield, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

  
  

• Sources

  [S597] WORLD: Ancestry.com, Freepages Rootsweb. [S433] CONTRIBUTORS:. Brodhead, Eugene Alexander [S433] CONTRIBUTORS:. Johnson, Leroy: Letter