#396 William Allison ( Archibald Allison◊ )

William was born 10 Jul 1749 in Co. Monaghan, Ireland. He died 27 Aug 1776 in Long Island, New York.

William served in the American Revolution; he is listed in the muster rolls of Captain Weitzel's Company in the First Battalion of Pennsylvania Regiment of Riflemen, commanded by Col. Samuel Miles.

He was listed as missing in action after the Battle of Long Island and was presumed killed in the battle. Hopefully, he was not taken prisoner. As Hezekiah Niles notes in "Chronicals of the American Revolution":

Even American historians are loathe to relate the calamaties which befell the more than 2000 prisoners taken during the battle. No less an eye witness than the heroic Ethan Allen states that many of them were put to the sword in cold blood. Others were confined in prisons or public buildings in New York City where there were literally starved to death.

Archibald Allison, cemetery notes, www.findagrave.com, #42651520.

Verna Allison Pierson & Marlowe G. Smith, The Allisons of Center County, Pennsylvania, History of the Family and Descendants of Archibald Allison and Mary Kennedy of Kirmaiden, Scotland and Monaghan, Ireland, (unpublished). Ref. as [Pierson/Smith]

Line Generation: 2

Relationship: Great-Great-Great-Great-Grand-Uncle