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William Irvine

 
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Irvine, William (1741-1804) Revolutionary War officer in the Continental army, born near Enniskillem, Fermanagh County, Northern Ireland. Irvine was captured during the Canadian expedition (1776) and later fought at the battle of Monmouth (1778). Irvine was commander of the western military department from 1781 to 1783, resigning that same year. After the war he served as a representative from Pennsylvania in the U.S. House (1793-95) and led state troops during the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) and the Quasi-War with France (1798).

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Irvine, William (ûr'vĭn), 1741-1804, American soldier, b. Ireland. He studied medicine in Ireland and after 1764 practiced in Carlisle, Pa. He was called to service as colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment and later as brigadier general in the Continental Army in the Revolution. In 1781 he was given command of Fort Pitt and the Western frontier, serving until 1783. While acting as agent (1785) to select the free lands promised to Pennsylvania troops, he recommended that Pennsylvania purchase the Erie Triangle (see Pennsylvania) from the United States. He was a member of the Continental Congress (1786-88), was sent (1793) as delegate to the 3d U.S. Congress, and was in command of Pennsylvania troops in the Whiskey Rebellion (1794).
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General William Irvine in 1784.

William Irvine (November 3, 1741 – July 29, 1804) was an Irish-American physician, soldier, and statesman from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army and represented Pennsylvania in both the Continental Congress (1787–88) and the United States House of Representatives (1793–1795).

Irvine was born near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in Ireland. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was buried in a graveyard near Independence Hall. He was reburied in 1833 at the new Ronaldson's Cemetery. When it was closed in 1950s, the graves of a few Revolutionary War officers such as Irvine were identified by the rector of Old Swedes' and reburied at Gloria Dei Church cemetery.

His great-granddaughter Margaret Biddle married Thomas Biddle of the Biddle family of Philadelphia.

It could be said that he ultimately caused the brutal death of William Crawford, who he dragged out of retirement to lead an expedition against rogue Indians in villages along the Sandusky River.

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