DAUGHERTY, John

• Name	DAUGHERTY, John
  Gender	Male
  Biography	The seven sons of William Daugherty all fought under Washington at one time or another during the Revolutionary war. After the war Captain John Daugherty returned to his farm on Muncy Creek, and was fatally stabbed by a knife in the hand of a bond boy whom he was correcting for some negligence. His lamentations when dying was that after fighting Indians, the British, and Hessians for so many years, he should be killed by a boy.
  _UID	FDDCF32B5B3A423B9C4B07FD6C90E9F6CFC6
  Person ID	I8456	Our Ancestry
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2012

  
  

  Father	DAUGHERTY, William,   b. 1720, Ireland, United Kingdom ,   d. 1777, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States  (Age 57 years)
  Mother	MERCER, Jane
  Family ID	F2692	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BOONE, Deborah
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2021
  Family ID	F2701	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S1134] History of Lehigh Co., Pa., and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Its Families Vol. 2, 211.