My ancestor who rowed with Washington on the crossing had the surname "Jack"...I cannot remember which first name (James Jack perhaps?) because it has been some time since I discovered that tidbit in a very very long geneaological journal.
The "Jack" family (my branches, scots-irish who settled in Pennsylvania) was rather well-known for its military endeavors, dating back to French-Indian War, and may have been known to Washington from his earliest military campaigns in that war. They were among first to toss in with the Revolutionary army.
Sometime we should start a topic here where folks post vignettes about the Rev War gleaned from family anecdotal records.
Sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately I have told you about all I know about my Revolutionary War era ancestors. Much of my father's family genealogy records were lost in a barn fire back before the Depression. Only by luck did I find a genealogy resource over the Internet that connected up with my limited genealogy records.
It turned out that my direct ancestors came to Colonial Pennsylvania and founded a Mennonite church in a town near Philadelphia. The Mennonite church had kept a detailed genealogy record of my father's family ever since, with links going back to Switzerland a few generations into the late 1600s. A heritage that I never knew about until recently.