In September, 1747 the first General Continental Congress met at Philadelphia, and troops from Europe arrived in America to enforce the arbitrary measures of the mother country, to erect fortifications, and seize and secure the military stores of her Colonies. In this alarming crisis, when the storm was about to burst and rage with violence in the Revolutionary war, the following named twenty-eight gentlemen, of the highest respectability and fortunes, voluntarily associated on the 17th day of November, 1774, and constituted The Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse, now The First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry:

Abraham Markoe	Captain	Henry Hill	Private
Andrew Allen	First Lieutenant	John Boyle	do
Samuel Morris	Second Lieutenant	John Mitchell	do
James Mease	Cornet	Samuel Caldwell	do
Thomas Mease	First Sergeant	Blair M. Clenechan	do
William Hall	Second Sergeant	Benjamin Randolph	do
Samuel Penrose	Third Sergeant	George Fullerton	do
Samuel Howell	First Corporal	William Todd	do
James Hunter	Second Corporal	George Campbell	do
Thomas Leiper	Private	Levi Hollingsworth	do
John Dunlap	do	George Groff	do
William Pollard	do	Thomas Peters	do
James Budden	do	Andrew Caldwell	do
Robert Hare	do	William West, Jr	do

They equipped at their own expense, volunteered their services to the Continental Congress, and served during the entire Revolutionary war. While General Washington was in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in 1776 and 1777, the Troop were his body guard. They served also with distinction in the war 1812.

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