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(b) Peter Dillin Sr., gravesite, Perry Twp., Coshocton Co., OH, located off Rte 541, west of the present community of Coshocton. This Revolutionary War Veteran is first recorded in present Somerset Co., NJ, in the middle 1770s, as an active member of the New Jersey Militia where he "served in Captain John Polhemus's Co. and 1st Regiment of New Jersey Troops commanded by Col. William Earl of Stirling." (This coincides with the Draft, which states that "Peter Dillin was listed among the privates from Somerset County, N.J. serving in the Rev. War in the 1st Battalion under Col. William Alexander (Lord Stirling)") - (Ref. History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, N.J.). He married his wife, Mary Veghte in 1779, and eventually resettled to Washington/Greene Co. PA, by the late 1780s, where he established a 403 acre farm, he called, 'Conquest', cut out of the wilderness of southwestern PA. Moving west again by the early 1800s, Peter, with several of his adult children, purchase land in Coshocton Co. prior to 1820, to which he resettled permanently after the sale of 'Conquest', in 1820. Peter's wife, Mary, and son Peter Jr., are buried close by in this grove of trees, located a few hundred yards to the south of Rte 541. The gravestone of Peter Jr., entombed in this great oak was recently (c2004) exposed with the downing of this tree by a severe storm.
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