Biography

01/09/1740 - 1798

Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Adam Hubley (Federalist) Lancaster and York Counties 1790-1792        

Early Life:

Adam Hubley, born, January 09, 1740, Lancaster County, Province of Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; son of Bernhard Hubley, Sr. and Eva Magdalena Hubley; Continental Army, First Lieutenant, 1st Pennsylvania Battalion, 1775- January 1, 1781, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), retired; Lieutenant, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1781-1783 elected, Republican, Pennsylvania General Assembly, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1783-1784; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania General Assembly, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1785-1788; elected, Federalist, original member, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1790- resigned, 1792; appointed, auctioneer of Philadelphia; married, Mary Evans Hubley, children, Hannah Hubley, Charles Hubley, Mary Hubley; Sophia Hubley, William Hubley, Sarah Hubley, Eliza Hubley; died, May 1798 (58) victim, Yellow Fever epidemic, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Burial location unknown.

Authored: 

Hubley, Adam, Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), Journal of Lieut.-Col. Adam Hubley, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant 11th Pennsylvania regiment, his journal, commencing at Wyoming, July 30th, 1779. Printed by J.B. Lippincott company, 1909.  

Subject: Pennsylvania Infantry -- 11th Regiment, 1778-1781

Subject: Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779

Subject: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives

Military History 

October 27, 1775, Continental Army, First Lieutenant, 1st Pennsylvania Battalion; January- July 1776, First Lieutenant, 1st Pennsylvania Battalion, Canada Campaign; June 21, 1776, First Lieutenant, 1st Pennsylvania Battalion, Isle aux Noix, Canada; July 18, 1776- November 13, 1776, First Lieutenant, 1st Pennsylvania Battalion, Fort Ticonderoga, Garrison Duty; December 6, 1776, Major, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment; Promoted, January 10 - May 1777, Major, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Morristown Encampment, 1777; January 10 - May 1777, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Morristown Encampment, 1777; January 10- May 1777, Major, Hartley's Additional Continental Regiment, Morristown Encampment, 1777; Transferred January 12, 1777; March- November 1777, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, New Jersey Campaign, 1777; March 12, 1777, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Promoted, April 12-13, 1777, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Bound Brook; September 11, 1777, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Brandywine; September 19, 1777; Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Paoli; October 4, 1777, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Germantown; November 2- December 10, 1777, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Whitemarsh Encampment; December 19, 1777-June 19 1778, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Valley Forge Encampment         ; June 28, 1778, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Monmouth; December 1778-June 1779, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Middlebrook Encampment; April-December 1779, Lieutenant Colonel, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania Campaign; April-October 1779, Lieutenant Colonel, 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, New Jersey Campaign; June 5, 1779, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), Promoted; July- October 1779, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), Sullivan's-Clinton Indian Campaign; August 13, 1779, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), Newtown, New York / Sullivan; August 29, 1779, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New) Newtown, New York / Sullivan; December 1779-June 1780, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), Morristown Encampment, 1779; April- October 1780, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), New Jersey Summer Campaign; July 21, 1780, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), Blockhouse - Bergen Heights; December 1780- June 1781, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), Morristown Encampment; January 1, 1781, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (New), Retired. 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Signed, Pennsylvania currency issued on April 3, 1772, July 20, 1775; also signed continental currency issues, February 17, 1776, May 9, 1776. 

One of committee of 43 appointed to correspond with sister colonies in reference to closing of Port of Boston, June 18, 1774, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia delegate, provincial delegate convention, Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, July 15, 1774.

Lieutenant, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1781-1783.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania General Assembly, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1783-1784. Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania General Assembly, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1785-1788. 

Elected, Federalist, Pennsylvania State Senate, Lancaster and York Counties, original member, 1790- resigned December 4, 1792, replaced by John Edie, December 13, 1792.

Appointed, auctioneer of Philadelphia, 1792.

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members H". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Pennsylvania Cincinnati Military History - Ash Swamp (Plainfield), NJ (bemarketingwebdev.com)

To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Adam Hubley, Jr. … (archives.gov)

PA Society of the Cincinnati | Lt. Col. Adam Hubley

A New Nation Votes (tufts.edu)