Display Patriot - P-121246 - John BRINGHURST

John BRINGHURST

SAR Patriot #: P-121246

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State of Service: PA Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service

DAR #: A014539

Birth: 19 Feb 1725 Germantown / Philadelphia / PA
Death: 18 Mar 1795 Germantown / Philadelphia / PA

Qualifying Service Description:

Coachmaker
Member of the Committee of Correspondence

Additional References:

Grave Registry form. National Society Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)

Spouse: (1) Mary Finney; (2) Elizabeth Shute
Children: Thomas; Jesse; George;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child	View Application Detail
1976-03-12	PA	Unassigned	Bengt T Hyberg (110439)	Thomas
2016-10-20	MD	70637	Robert Paul Higdon Jr. (194216)	Thomas

Burial:

Hood Cemetery (aka Lower Burying Ground, Fisher's Lane Burying Ground, Fisher's Ground)_(C-0373821)

Location:

Germantown / Philadelphia / PA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

45141

Grave Plot #:

191

Grave GPS Coordinates:

40.028580 / -75.162470

Find A Grave Memorial #:

20866975

Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo used with permission of Compatriot Robert Higdon, Sergeant Lawrence Everhart Chapter, MDSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Robert Paul Higdon Jr
Will, December 27, 1794, Proved April 2, 1795, Germantown, Philadelphia County, PA -- Coach Maker

Will Book X, page X.221

Wife: Elizabeth

Children: Mary, Isaac, Mary Shute, George, Margaret Simmons, Anna McCullough, Sarah, Elizabeth Dunant, Jesse, Thomas.

Exec: Wife Elizabeth, Son George Bringhurst, Son-in- Law Jesse Simmons, John McCullough, Edward Dunant, Sons Isaac and Jesse Bringhurst.

Witnesses: William Forbes, George Sharples, Jacob Knorr.

John Bringhurst the original coach maker, was born in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania in 1726. He lived on the southeast corner what is today Main and Bringhurst Street. He was one of the first, if not the first to build the famous “Germantown Waggon”. He was the one who built the coach for General George Washington. Making coach’s was the Bringhurst family occupation and they were good at it. So good in fact that in 1780 when Gen. Washington thought it was about time he got a new carriage, his thoughts turned to John Bringhurst, carriage maker par excellence.

Washington wrote John Mitchell the Continental Army’s Deputy Quarter Master of his needs:

You do me a favor by enquiring and let me know as soon as possible if any good coach maker is in Philadelphia or Germantown (Bringhurst of instance) will engage to make me a general plain chariot with real harness for four horses to go with postillions.

Mitchell wrote in reply:

This day I went to Germantown and have prevailed on Mr. Bringhurst to let you have a carriage he has on hand. It appears to be in good working order and well seasoned timbers. The size is three feet and one half inches high and three feet ten inches wide and he will have a very good second coach or better if to got and should be ready in six weeks.

It cost Washington 210 pounds in gold. His carriage must have been in fairly good shape. Bringhurst allowed him a 27 pound trade in. It was generally conceded that Bringhurst built the best carriages around town or anywhere else in the colonies. Bringhurst was chosen to lead the coach builders in the famous Federal Parade which took place in Philadelphia July 4, 1778 to celebrate the adoption of the constitution.

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