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Eyre was born in Burlington, New Jersey. He married Lydia Wright Eyre^[2] on December 28, 1761, when Jehu was twenty-three years old. Jehu's brother Manuel, also an officer in the Continental Army{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}}, had married Lydia's sister Martha on January 8 of the same year.^[3] In total, Jehu and Lydia Eyre would have five children: George (named after his grandfather), Jehu Jr., Franklin, Sarah, and Lydia (named after her mother).^[1]

British soldier

Eyre fought alongside George Washington in the French and Indian War, serving as the Chief Engineer and Director of Artillery for the Province of Pennsylvania.^[4] Eyre and Washington were both participants in the July 9, 1755 Battle of Monongahela, when forces under British General Edward Braddock were defeated by combined French and Native American units.

Revolutionary

Eyre served under Washington at Valley Forge during the winter of 1776–1777.^[6] He and his brothers were commissioned by Washington to build vessels for the independence effort at the Eyre family's shipping yards in Kensington (now part of Philadelphia), and provided some of the first ships in the Continental Navy.^[7] The earliest gunboat of the American Navy was built under the supervision of the Eyre family; christened "Bull Dog", it was launched at Kensington on July 26, 1775.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} In that year Eyre also mustered his workers into a force for the defense of Philadelphia known as the "Kensington Artillery".{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

On December 25, 1776, Jehu Eyre "had charge of the boats" in Washington's crossing of the Delaware,^[8] a resounding success and a critical battle that saved the Revolution from being snuffed out in its infancy.

At the Battle of Brandywine, Colonel Eyre fought with his artillery company to halt the capture of Philadelphia,^[9]^[10] but his efforts were unsuccessful. Following the British occupation of the city in 1777, the naval works at Kensington were destroyed, to be rebuilt after the conflict's conclusion by Jehu's children and grandchildren.^[11] The Eyre Mansion, specifically targeted by the British, was ransacked that winter.^[12]

After independence

During the war, Eyre's shipping yards were destroyed and his house razed, amounting to a total loss of £6,392 as of 1778, for which neither he nor his family were ever compensated.^[13]

One of the frigates built by the Eyres, The Alliance, carried the Marquis de Lafayette to France in 1779 and then joined up with the fleet of John Paul Jones.^[14]

Illness and death

Eyre died of malaria in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and his diaries were later published as The Memorials of Colonel Jehu Eyre.^[15] In 1853, his remains were taken from the Coates family graveyard and re-interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, where an Eyre family vault was constructed.^[16]

Legacy

A portrait of Jehu Eyre can be found at Trumbull's Gallery at Yale College.^[12]

See also

Notes

1. ^¹http://proxy.wrlc.org:8080/cgi-bin/getdoc.pdf?file=CLS_1057029.pdf&pin=899812
2. ^Kensington Will Abstracts, 1685–1825 (KennethWMilano.com)
3. ^Record of Pennsylvania Marriages {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050105093516/http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/paarchivesseries/series2/vol8/pass83.html |date=2005-01-05 }}
4. ^"Soldiers of the Quaker city: National Guard, Sep 1997" by Joseph Seymour
5. ^History on the doorstep in Braddock
6. ^Descendants of Colonel Jehu Eyre
7. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20040314014830/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w3/washington-ii.htm Washington, Dictionary of American Fighting Ships]
8. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=OzlZAAAAMAAJ&dq=Jehu%20Eyre&pg=RA2-PA1504
9. ^Chapter VII "The Revolutionary Struggle to the Battle of Brandywine" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208071659/http://www.delcohistory.org/ashmead/ashmead_pg55.htm |date=2007-02-08 }} — History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania by Henry Graham Ashmead
10. ^Gibbons, Hughes Oliphant:[https://archive.org/stream/historyofoldpin00gibb/historyofoldpin00gibb#page/87/mode/1up "A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church"], p.87
11. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20040314014830/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w3/washington-ii.htm Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]
12. ^¹"Old Kensington", Historical Society of Pennsylvania
13. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=NanO_mjoc2gC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=Jehu+Eyre+%C2%A36,392&source=bl&ots=Cu2Gwvp-Gs&sig=h_kjCvTMiS2eIX8RrDahVzoS2kE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bQOSUL2zI4jo8QS35YBQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Jehu%20Eyre%20%C2%A36%2C392&f=false
14. ^Ancestors of
15. ^Eyre, Jehu. "Memorials of Colonel Jehu Eyre." Edited by Peter D. Keyser. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 3 (1879), pp. 296–307, 412–425.
16. ^Revolutionary War Soldiers' Graves — Sons of the American Revolution: Pennsylvania Society (Philadelphia — Continental Chapter)

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