This account was written by A.D. Hiller (1939): "Frederick Hill was in the British Army under General Burgoyne in the northern part of New York State, when he and seventeen other soldiers left the British and on June 14, 1777, crossed the Hudson River in an old boat, using their hats for oars, and joined the American Army under General Gates, served under Major Washington, was present at the capture of Burgoyne's Army, after which, he, with eight of the men who crossed the Hudson with him, was sent to Springfield, New Jersey, where he served under Captain Andrew Mann and guarded, for a short time, between the two and three hundred prisoners captured by the Americans from Colonel ___ Regiment; sometime later in October, 1777, he went to White Plains and enlisted in Captain ___ (Irwin's) Company of the Flying Camp___ until March 1778, during which period he aided in ___ three bridges, one over the Hackensack River, and was discharged from the Flying Camp at White Plains. After this service he went to Fredericktown, Maryland, where he again entered the service under General Pulaski and in the fall of 1778, was ordered to Staunton, Virginia, where he, being a blacksmith, was engaged during the winter (1778-1779) caring for the horses of General Pulaski's Corps and assisted in making seven hundred pairs of horseshoes. When General Pulaski marched to the south, Frederick Hill remained in Staunton caring for a number of lame horses, and when he heard of General Pulaski's death, he returned to Fredericktown, Maryland, with the horses where he delivered them to the proper authorities. He volunteered in 1780 and served three months as Indian spy and scout, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, under Lieutenant Wood and Colonel Davidson. He joined the Pennsylvania militia in 1780. After the Revolutionary War, he moved from Fredericktown, Maryland, to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, He was allowed pension on his application executed January 1, 1834, at which time he was a resident of Napier Township, Bedford Co. PA."