Fort Freeland Monuments & Markers

The Warrior Run-Fort Freeland Heritage Society and the Tiadaghton Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution dedicated a memorial marker to the Battle of Fort Freeland on July 28, 1996.

                                   

Names on the plaque:

Three killed in the cornfield on July 20, 1779:   Elias Freeland, Jacob Freeland, Jr, and Isaac Vincent.

Two killed early in the morning of July 28, 1779:  Jacob Freeland, Sr. and James Watts.

Three of the garrison killed in the fort during the the siege:  John McClintock, William McClung and James Miles.

Twelve of the relief party killed:  Capt. Hawkins Boone, Edward Costigan, Capt. Samuel Dougherty, Ezra Greene, John Johns, Peter Martin, Matthew McClintock, Jeremiah McLaughlin, Hugh McGill, Samuel Neill, Nathaniel Smith and Andrew Woods.

One escaped, but was killed on July 29, 1779 at a nearby fort:  Henry Gilfillian.


On October 2, 2016,  the Warrior Run-Fort Freeland Heritage Society and the Tiadagthton Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution dedicated a monument to the Patriot Soldiers of the PA Militia, 3rd Battalion, who gave their lives when dispatched from Fort Freeland, and were ambushed by Indians at the McKnight Farm near Fort Freeland on April 26, 1779.

Names on the plaque:

All were killed:  Henry Conrad, Jacob Gift, George Herrold, Michael Lepley and George Levengut.

William McKnight, of the Northumberland County’s Committee of Safety, and his wife Elizabeth McCormick McKnight, were also killed.


The Hower-Slote House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1979 by the United States Department of the Interior.