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	Encyclopedia: Daniel Roberdeau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Daniel was born on the Island of St. Christopher (Saint Kitts) in the West Indies.
		Roberdeau was active in establishing the Masons in Philadelphia, which brought him to the attention of Benjamin Franklin and other civic leaders.
		Roberdeau knew that the enemy was aware of the lead production, and in one of his letters he stated, "We are now an object with the enemy." In 1780 he offered a bonus of $100 to a smelter who would finish the ore which was "on the ground," but to no avail.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Daniel-Roberdeau (1134 words)

	Chronicles - Part 4
		In April 1778, General Daniel Roberdeau and a small task force set forth from Carlisle, the last populated outpost on the frontier, to take possession of the Sinking Valley lead deposit.
		Roberdeau encountered no difficulty in locating the remote mineral deposit because mine shafts and open cut trenches already existed upon his arrival.
		Roberdeau, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, army officer and member of the Continental Congress was anxious to return to his prior duties.
	www.pennminerals.com /Chronicles4.htm (2342 words)

	Daniel Roberdeau
		He was the son of Isaac Roberdeau, a French Huguenot, and Mary Cunyngham, a descendant of the Earl of Glencairn, in Scotland.
		In February, 1777, Gem Roberdeau was elected a member of the Continental congress, tie was active in supporting the Articles of Confederation and affixed his name to that document on the part of Pennsylvania.
		In April, 1778, there being a scarcity of lead in the army, General Roberdeau received leave of absence from congress in order to work a lead-mine in Bedford county, where he was obliged to erect a stockade fort as a protection against the Indians.
	www.famousamericans.net /danielroberdeau (782 words)

	Fort Roberdeau History
		Brigadier General Daniel Roberdeau was the first person elected to the rank of General on July 4, 1776, by the Associators of Pennsylvania.
		Roberdeau took a leave of absence from Congress in April 1778.
		Roberdeau and his men later caught one of the Tories and managed to learn the details of the plot.
	www.fortroberdeau.org /history/defaulth.htm (1577 words)

	Welcome to the Bucks County PA GenWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Isaac Roberdeau died at St. Christopher, and his widow and children removed to Philadelphia while the children were still in their minority, where the widow married a man by the name of Keighly, but was again a widow many years prior to her death, which occurred March 13, 1771.
		Daniel had several sons, of whom John, born April 9, 1745, was a member of congress from Chester county 1807-8 and was succeeded by his son Daniel; Daniel, a representative in congress from Montgomery county, 1789-97, and from Maryland 1801-5; Gabriel, for thirty years a member of the state legislature from Berks county; and William.
		Daniel Hiester, the elder, was born in the town of Elsoff, county of Witgenstein, province of Westphalia, in Silesia, Germany, January 1, 1713, and died in Bern township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1795.
	www.rootsweb.com /~pabucks/leesclymer.html (2106 words)

	FortRob
		Fort Roberdeau was a stockaded structure, apparently the only one in the present-day Blair County region to have been authorized by the Pennsylvania Assembly, built expressly for the security and protection of the men engaged in mining the lead that was abundant in the Sinking Spring Valley.
		Fort Roberdeau is the only one of the six fortified structures known to have been constructed within the limits of present-day Blair County during the American Revolutionary War to be reconstructed.
		The Fort Roberdeau Restoration Committee was established by the Blair County Commissioners, and the fort became a Bicentennial Project, dedicated on 05 July, 1976.
	www.motherbedford.com /FortRob.htm (1298 words)

	William Bradford (1755-1795) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later that year the militia was organized into a flying camp with Daniel Roberdeau as the first Brigadier General in the states forces.
		General Roberdeau chose the young man as an aide, and later promoted him to brigade Major on his headquarter staff.
		When his militia term expired he joined the Continental Army as a Captain and company commander in the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Richard Hampton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Bradford_(1755-1795) (421 words)

	Colonial Hall: Biography of Daniel Roberdeau
		General Daniel Roberdeau was a distinguished statesman and soldier of the Revolution.
		Roberdeau did not prevent him joining the patriot forces at the commencement of the Revolution.
		At the conclusion of the war, General Roberdeau removed to Virginia, and settled in Frederick county, where he died January 5, 1795, at the age of sixty-eight years.
	www.colonialhall.com /roberdeau/roberdeau.php (274 words)

	Ancestry Message Boards [ Roberdeau ]
		Daniel Roberdeau, 1727~1795 : Joyce Peck -- 3 Oct 2004
		Re: Roberdeau : Cindy behrens -- 19 Jul 2001
		Re: Roberdeau : odette Clouthier -- 2 Sep 2004
	boards.ancestry.com /mbexec/board/5538/surnames.roberdeau (213 words)

	Cluggage's Ranging Company and Mercer's Company - Cluggage's Ranging Company History
		In the spring of 1778, General Daniel Roberdeau set out from Carlisle to mine lead ore in Sinking Valley, located in the northern corner of Bedford County.
		Cluggage and his men joined Roberdeau on his mission to open lead mines and built Fort Roberdeau for their protection.
		In 1978, on the 200th Anniversary of the founding of the original Cluggage’s Rangers, a historical re-enactment group was formed to authentically portray the rangers of 1778-1780.
	www.trgcreations.com /cluggages-mercers/chistory.html (595 words)

	ROBERDEAU, Daniel (1727-1795) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A letterbook of Daniel Roberdeau containing outgoing correspondence pertaining chiefly to Daniel Roberdeau’s commercial activities including his distillery in Alexandria, Va., and to the West Indies trade.
		A letter from Daniel Roberdeau to Timothy Matlack written on November 1, 1777.
		A letter from Daniel Roberdeau to an unidentified recipient written on January 25, 1785.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=R000303 (85 words)

	History Part 6 : 1861-1865
		Roberdeau, Darden, and the new recruits missed a brutal march through rain, hail, and snow, as the Echo Company, undersupplied with blankets and tents, got its first taste of the bitterness of a Virginia winter.
		Tobin's lawyer, James Monroe Daniels, answered that Robson had persuaded Tobin to sign the contract under fraudulent terms, to wit, that Robson did not own all the land he claimed to, and that Tobin had since made a standing offer to Robson to cancel the contract.
		Roberdeau too was wounded at Gettysburg, taken prisoner, and confined, for the rest of the war, in POW camps.
	www.columbustexas.net /library/history/part6.htm (14094 words)

	Autographs & Manuscripts/Powers Collection - Liveauctioneers
		DANIEL BRODHEAD (1736 - 1809) American general who saw action at Long Island and wa...
		DANIEL ROBERDEAU (1727 - 1795) American Revolutionary, a Signer of the Articles of...
		DANIEL ROBERDEAU A.D.S. penned at the bottom of a manuscript order signed by William...
	www.liveauctioneers.com /catalogs/1818-500.html (1635 words)

	phorum - General Discussion - Daniel Roberdeau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		His father was a French Hugonot that settled in the caribbean islands until his death and then Daniel came with his mother to the US.
		Putting 2&2 together I'm wondering...Hannah born 1766, old enough to be Daniel's sister and her birth place is unknown...Roberdeaus and VanLeers were both were prestigious Phila./NJ families.
		Daniel is listed as a resource in her family pedigree file as well as a Robert F. Price who is also listed on the calendar of NJ wills with Hannah & Jacob Roberts.
	www.colonialhall.com /forum/read.php?f=1&i=230&t=230 (321 words)

	Daniel Roberdeau, Signer of the Articles of Confederation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Daniel Roberdeau is regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
		Daniel Roberdeau was a Protestant Christian (as were 98% of the signers of the Articles of Confederation).
		Additional research is needed about his religious life, as we have not yet identified his denominational affiliation or gathered information about the nature and extent of his religiosity.
	adherents.com /people/pr/Daniel_Roberdeau.html (185 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Daniel Roberdeau
		He became a timber merchant and, for a number of years, managed a hospital.
		As a result he was named to the Committee of Safety, and on July 4 was named a Brigadier General in the state militia.
		After the war he visited England, then moved to Alexandria, Virginia and later still removed to Winchester where he died in 1795.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Daniel_Roberdeau (396 words)

	LookSmart - Directory - Daniel Roberdeau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Daniel Roberdeau - Research the life and career of this Pennsylvania member of the Continental Congress.
		Fort Roberdeau - Daniel Roberdeau to George Washington, 1778
		Read a letter from then-Brigadier General Roberdeau to Washington on provisioning the army of Pennsylvania.
	lsxml.looksmart.com /p/browse/us1/us317836/us317911/us53828/us71848/us285850/us287709/us945537/us10174479 (216 words)

	Centreville Community Network
		According to the great grandchildren of Revolutionary War patriot and statesman General Daniel Roberdeau, the General built Royal Oaks for his son James in 1785.
		General Roberdeau may not have built the Royal Oaks, but James Roberdeau and his family did reside there.
		James Roberdeau was born in Alexandria and grew up in Winchester.
	www.centrevilleva.org /index.cfm?action=a26&id=292,4097,48100001 (1387 words)

	Fort Roberdeau - The Lead Mine Fort
		Fort Roberdeau Historic Site and Natural Area is located near Altoona in Blair County, Pennsylvania.
		The original Fort Roberdeau was constructed in 1778 under the direction of General Daniel Roberdeau, one of Pennsylvania's representatives to the Second Continental Congress.
		Supplies of ordnance and ammunition for the area then designated as Bedford County were stored at the fort.
	www.fortroberdeau.org (175 words)

	Fort Roberdeau Information
		Brigadier-General Daniel Roberdeau took a leave of absence from the Continental Congress and traveled to Sinking Valley, in central Pennsylvania, to begin mining and smelting the lead ore. At his own expense, Daniel Roberdeau built a stockade to protect this
		The fort was a storage depot for ordnance, ammunition, and other supplies until 1780, and was garrisoned by militia of Cumberland and Bedford Counties and the Bedford County Ranging Companies.
		Fort Roberdeau Historic Site and Natural Area is owned by the County of Blair and managed by the Fort Roberdeau Association, a non-profit educational organization.
	www.fortroberdeau.org /general/defaultg.htm (273 words)

	WVU Libraries
		A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone: A Memoir by Peter Houston [written in 1842].
		“Daniel Boone’s American Life: An Interview with Biographer Michael Lofaro.” Edited by James Russell Harris and Kenneth H. Williams.
		Thorp, Daniel B. “Taverns and Communities: The Case of Rowan County, North Carolina.” In The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities, eds.
	www.libraries.wvu.edu /bibliography/frontier.htm (2809 words)

	Independence NHP: Historic Resource Study (Chapter 3)
		Elizabeth Roberdeau, a gentlewoman, sister of the prominent patriot, Daniel Roberdeau, was living with one other woman at the former address.
		Whether it was the same house numbered 49 Cherry that Elizabeth Roberdeau had occupied in 1791 is not clear.
		Daniel Reblett, tobacconist, at 6 Hoffman's Alley, had an another listing as Daniel Roblet, tobacconist, at 2 Cresson's Alley in the 1791 city directory.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/inde/hrs/hrs3a.htm (15501 words)

	The Lancaster Convention June 25, 1776 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The convention, after electing Daniel Roberdeau and James Ewing brigadiergenerals, adopted resolutions that breathed the highest spirit of devotion, not only to Pennsylvania, but towards all the colonies:
		Resolved, That the Associators to be drafted out of each County, by the Brigadier Generals shall be in the same proportion as that directed by the late Provincial Conference in Philada.
		Daniel Clymer & Capt. Sharp Delaney be a committee to review and correct the minutes of the proceedings of this day, & they are hereby desired to publish them in the several newspapers of the Colony and that they be signed by the President.
	www.ls.net /~newriver/pa/lancconv.htm (1930 words)

	Politics and Society in the Early Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The most serious problem was engendered in Daniel Shays's (class-oriented) Rebellion in Massachusetts 1786-87: War veterans rebelled against Massachusetts's state government.
		Their homes and property were being foreclosed by the government and sold off to the highest bidder (a rich guy who bought it for 1/4 and then sold it again for profit).
		Pennsylvania viz.: Robt Morris, Daniel Roberdeau, Jno Bayard Smith, William Clingan, Joseph Reed.
	www.lampstras.k12.pa.us /mmeylin/teams/king/ss/Units/Unit-Eight.html (2759 words)

	Will of Daniel Roberdeau
		Following is the text of the will of Daniel Roberdeau, written in Alexandria but proved in Frederick Co., Virginia (where he died, January 1795).
		Daniel Roberdeau of the town of Alexandria in the State of Virginia do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following.
		Whereas I Daniel Roberdeau was at the time of Executing my will
	www.jenforum.com /roberdeau/messages/13.html (877 words)

	Alexandria Archaeology Museum - Discovering the Decades: 1770s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Improvements were undertaken at Point West and Point Lumley, but one of the former public tobacco warehouses at Point Lumley (foot of Duke Street) was rented to Andrew Wales, the town's first commercial brewer.
		In 1774, Philadelphian Daniel Roberdeau constructed a large distillery at the foot of Wolfe Street (where the Harborside development is today).
		The Alexandria Line was part of General Daniel Morgan's regiment of riflemen, conspicuous for its role in the Battle of Saratoga.
	oha.ci.alexandria.va.us /archaeology/decades/ar-decades-1770.html (2284 words)

	fortroberdeau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		It was built by Brigadier General Daniel Roberdeau in 1778.
		The fort was built to protect lead miners and the settlers.
		Fort Roberdeau was used like most forts were: some people were always there, and others would flee to it if they were under attack.
	www.aasdcat.com /cyber99/fortrob.htm (218 words)

	B
		To overcome the prejudice against manufacturing--as inimical to and less desirable than agriculture--advocates regularly cited the usefulness of manufacturing as a means of providing employment for young children and women.
		Daniel Roberdeau (1727-1795), a Philadelphia merchant, was president of the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures; Tench Coxe, also a Philadelphian and president of the Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures, was assistant secretary of the treasury at the time Hamilton, as secretary, presented his "Report on Manufactures."
		Daniel Gifford and family to have the following price for one year from the time of his moving into our house--which was on the 5th of 5th mo., 1815--to have one half of the 1st.
	www.h-net.org /~child/Bremner/Volume_I/24_P2_II_B_Infant_Industries_(SL).htm (5609 words)

	Revtime
		Daniel Brodhead of Berks County is appointed to serve as Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Battalion of the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment (13/Mar/1776)
		General Daniel Roberdeau begins construction of a fortification (to be called Fort Roberdeau) in the Sinking Spring Valley for the purpose of protecting lead mining and smelting operations (April/1778)
		Colonel Daniel Brodhead is directed by General George Washington to take the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment to Fort Pitt for the defense of the frontier (spring/1778)
	www.motherbedford.com /Revtime.htm (3497 words)

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