1st PA (Continental) LINE

This flag has a deep green field with a crimson square in the center, upon which is a hunter attacking with a spear a lion enclosed in a net.  The motto below reads: "Domari Nolo" (I refuse to be subjugated).

The flag, described in a letter dated March 8, 1776 from Prospect Hill by Lieutenant-Colonel Hand to James Yeates, of Lancaster, PA, was carried by the regiment through the Revolution in all of its skirmishes and battles, from Boston (1775) to Yorktown (1781). It was with this regiment with Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne in Georgia in 1782, and in camp on James Island, SC, in 1783, when the news of peace reached there.  The original flag can be seen in the State Library at Harrisburg, PA.