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Philip Nicholas Main aka Means, was born 17 October 1747, in Glouster County, New Jersey. Philip was the son of Joseph Means (1702‐1760) and Elizabeth McCord. Philip married Clarianne “Clory Ann” Rough before 1776. They were the parents of Mary, Elizabeth, Nicholas, Philip, Soloman, Nancy, John, and Katherine.

Phillip enlisted in the military in August of 1776, in Pennsylvania. He would serve under Captain Andrew Waggoner’s Company, of the 12th Virginia Regiment of Foot, commanded by James Wood. He enlisted at George’s Creek on the Monongahela River. In 1779 he transferred to Major Clark’s Company of the same regiment. He would participate in the battles of Brandywine, Elizabethtown and Germantown and suffered through the winter at Valley Forge. On 3 August 1777, at Germantown, Pennsylvania, during an assault upon a stone house, he was struck in his right eye by a musket ball, destroying it. As a result he was granted a small pension forty two years afterwards, 3 June 1819.

Phillip’s veteran’s burial card notes that he served as a bodyguard to George Washington. Phillip severed for four years and was wounded at the battle of Brandywine. In his War Pension application, dated 11 September 1832, Philip states that he had resided in Beaver County, Pennsylvania for thirty years. It is also noted that prior to that time he lived in Virginia. Philip died 19 April 1835, in North Sewickley, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. He is buried in the North Sewickley Cemetery, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. His headstone has an American Revolution Marker.

After the Revolution Philip settled and raised a family of seven children on a 200 acre farm in North Sweckley Township, near Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He built a log cabin there with logs that were an impressive 32 feet long and 16 inches square. In the 1803 Tax List, for North Sweckley, Phillip owned 200 acres, 2 horses, and 1 cow.