VALENTINE EGLE, b. October 27, 1756, in Bern township, Berks county, Pa.; d. November 23, 1820, at Harrisburg, Pa. At the age of nineteen, he enlisted in the war for independence, and served for a time in the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line of the Revolution; and subsequently was lieutenant in Eighth Battalion Lancaster county militia. He learned the trade of a hatter, and settled in Harrisburg, Pa., where he established himself in business and was a gentleman universally respected and esteemed. He died suddenly from nervous shock and over-exertion, caused by the complete destruction of his property by fire a few months prior. He m., in 1796, by Rev. Anthony Hautz, pastor of Frieden's Kirche, in Cumberland county, Pa., ELIZABETH THOMAS, b. May 2, 1772, in Londonderry township, Lancaster, now Lebanon county, Pa.; d. August 5, 1867, at Harrisburg, Pa.