William Laird, who was born in Ireland, October 27, 1727, and was brought to America at the age of six years, and died April 11, 1820. In early manhood he had resided near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the committee of correspondence in 1774 as delegate from the Fourth Battalion to the Lancaster County Association of Battalions in 1776, was captain of the Seventh Company of the Sixth Battalion in 1777, captain of the Eighth Company of the Ninth Battalion in 1780, and thus rendered efficient service to the cause of independence. His is death occurred in what is now Madison Township, Columbia county, and his remains were interred in the Derry churchyard.