Ooooh...good question Adam. His name was Seaman but I'm not quite sure about the breed...was it St Bernard?
You mention Brandywine...I had folks there...the American Revolution is one of my favorite subjects. Another is Lord Dumore's war...which I had several family members participate in and some who died there. Also, when Cheif Cornstalk was murdered, the trial for the murderers took place in my G (5) grand uncles house in 1777. He was also in the war, and was also at Yorktown. His name was Samuel Wallace.
Iffin I was to go back in time, it would be colonial Virginia. I would love to be a fly on the walls of the people back then.
Next stop would be 1861 so I could whoop some Yankee butt