I had a G8 (Jeremiah Lochry/Laughrey/Loughrey)who served with Braddock. Reportedly Jeremiah wasn’t with Braddock at the Battle of the Wlderness...
It seems to me I read that when the French and Indian war kicked up, some of my ancestors (Jeremiah Lochry, “Captain Jack”) offered their services to Braddock to form a special unconventional unit to fight the Indians in the way they knew the Indians fought the settlers- brutal hit and run, then fade back into the woods-stealth and mobility-
“Captain Jack” is still a legend in central PA (Jacks mountain) His family was massacred in central PA (which turned him into a one-man vigilante, a frontier Charles Bronson who gave the Indians worse than they gave him)
They may have been one of America’s first Spec Ops teams. Braddock’s staff and red coats were contemptuous of these frontiersmen with their rifles and buckskins- they didn’t even have uniforms nor fight like gentlemen and most were hard scrabble Irish immigrants, not upper class English
Seems to me that fighting Indians and maybe even alongside their fathers who were F&I war veterans is where Joseph Erwin and others would have picked up skills and creds that led him into being a company commander for the PA Rifles in the Rev War
The more you look the more everyone gets entwined, there were not a lot of families living in the PA frontiers in those times
Don’t feel too bad about Braddock not listening to your G8...he also didn’t listen to Washington. His not listening to anyone cost him his life (visited his grave last year driving from DC to Cincinnati).