One of my ancestors was already on the Western Pennsylvania frontier at the time of the Revolution, volunteering for a militia outfit. After the war he pushed West into Ohio, where he volunteered again for the War of 1812. He sure didn’t have much use for the English. :-))
Great stuff...may I inquire if that ancestor was of German or Scottish (or other) background? I ask because many of the Western PA colonists were German, and many of them were pacifists; they recruited others to form militias out there, with Hugh Mercer one of the Scots who went there to fight.