Installed: 7 January 2004

July 26, 1758, died after Sept. 15, 1824; married Elizabeth Brown.

John Huston, in Capt. Francis Moore’s Company, Col. Chas. Middleton’s 2nd Regiment of South Carolina State Dragoons in Gen. Thomas Sumpter’s Brigade, said to have been composed largely of refugees from North Carolina. South Carolina in 1880 was too weak to pay and equip soldiers, so the men of Sumpter’s brigade furnished their own horses and muskets or rifles. Some carried rude weapons fashioned from farm tools. Bullets were made from pewter melted down from kitchen utensils. Sumpter’s heroic fighters carried on a guerrilla campaign against the British in 1880.

John Huston, lieutenant, 5th and 7th Battalions, Pennsyl.vania Line 1777 to 1781; born Bucks County, Pa., 1754, died Philadelphia County, Pa., 1820.

John Huston, "associator" in Capt. John McCormick’s 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, Cumberland County, Pa., in 1780; buried in Old Pinehall Graveyard, Cumberland County.

John Huston, ensign, 9th Virginia Regiment, enlisted Sept. 10, 1776; made 2nd lieutenant April 1, 1777; resigned Sept. 8, 1777.

John Huston, in Captain McCutchin’s Company, Augusta County, Va.

John Huston, 2nd lieutenant, Rockingham County, Va., Militia.

John Huston, Georgia, listed in land lottery grants, Jasper County, Ga.

John Huston, private in Capt. Samuel Holiday’s Company, 5th Battalion, Cumberland County, Pa., Militia; born 1758 in Mifflin County, Pa., died 1824 in Nelson County, Ky.

John Huston, Pennsylvania; died 1805 in Franklin County, Pa.; married Sarah Wilson.

John Huston, mariner, New Jersey; was captured when the ship on which he was serving, en route to France, was captured by the British. He was a prisoner of war in Mill Prison, Plymouth, England, Feb. 19, 1782, according to a letter written by Capt. John Green, also a prisoner.

John Huston, one of the Minute Men who responded to the call in the Battle of Lexington as a private in Capt. John Brackett’s Company of Falmouth, Mass., in Col. Edmund Phinney’s Regiment. When his tour of duty expired, he re-enlisted in the same unit. Born in Falmouth 1745, died in Portland 1785.

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