DAR Revolutionary Patriot Index:

Patriot First Name: Aaron
Patriot Last Name: Scout
Birth: Bet. 1734- 1744 PA
Death: Dec. 16, 1809 PA
War Time Residence: Philadelphia County, PA
Spouse First Name: Sarah Gilbert
Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No
Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No

Comments: Aaron Scout was an Ensign in the Sixth Company of the First Battalion, Philadelphia County Militia, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Smith, and in actual service in 1780. For reference see the same volume of Archives, page 753 and

Ensign , Philadelphia Co., 4Th Battalion, 7Th Company, Capt. Mann (1777). For reference see Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, volume xiii, page 591.


"Officers County Militia--1780. Return of the officers elected for the several battalions of the Militia for the County of Philadelphia.

First Battalion
LIEUT. COLONEL--George Smith, Esq.
MAJOR--Josiah Hart, Esq."


Page 753. "Sixth Company
CAPTAIN--John Shelmire.
LIEUTENANT--Henry Puff.
ENSIGN--Aaron Scout."


Page 16 Also "Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, Associated Battalions and Militia--1775-1783, Volume II, edited by William H. Egle, M. D., 1888," being "Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, published under direction of C. W. Stone, Secretary of the Commonwealth, edited by William H Egle, M. D., volume xiv, 1888."

Page 10, "Militia in the United States Service."

Excerpt from Neff Chronicles-Addenda Naf-Neff History, 1899:
"Aaron Scout, May 19th, 1777." The following certificate from Dr. Egle, of Harrisburg, Penn., confirms the references given above
"State Library of Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg, Pa., August 21st, 1896.
To whom it may concern:

I hereby certify that Aaron Scout was an Ensign of the Seventh Company, Fourth Battalion, Philadelphia County Militia, in service in 1777. For reference see Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, volume xiii, page 591.

Aaron Scout was an Ensign in the Sixth Company of the First Battalion, Philadelphia County Militia, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Smith, and in actual service in 1780. For reference see the same volume of Archives, page 753.

Yours with respect,
WILLIAM H. EGLE, M. D. State Librarian and Editor Pennsylvania Archives."

Revolutionary soldiers' graves in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : and the surrounding townships of Roxborough and Blockley, in Philadelphia County, Haverford and Radnor, in Delaware County, and Upper Merion and White Marsh, in Montgomery County
Bala, Pa.: Mrs. John (Dora Harvey) F. Develin, 1906, 11 pgs.
WHITE Marsh : Arie Scout, Page 9