Display Patriot - P-163558 - Thomas GALBRAITH/GALBREATH
Thomas GALBRAITH/GALBREATH
SAR Patriot #:
P-163558
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Birth: abt 1745 / Lancaster / PA Death: Mar 1785 / Westmoreland / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Commissioner of Westmoreland County, PA
Representative to the Assembly
Additional References:
PA Archives, Colonial Records, Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania 1776-1779, Vol 11, Harrisburg: Theo. Fenn & Co.. 1852, pg 330, 373
Author: Thomas Cherubini Celli
Thomas Galbraith was born during 1742 to patriot father James Galbraith (P-163535) in Pennsboro Township, Hershey PA. He married Elizabeth Shannon in 1764 and had four children: Patriot James (P-163553), Martha, Elizabeth and William Jamison. He moved west of the Laurel Highlands over the Forbes Road to Squirrel Hill outside of Ramseytown which is now known as Ligonier.
During the Revolutionary War is provided Patriotic Service by helping to build Fort Preservation, serving in the Pennsylvania Assembly and as the first County Commissioner of Westmoreland County, PA. Today Westmoreland County includes Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene, and Allegheny Countries.
He died in 1836, and is assumed to be buried on his homestead on Squirrel Hill in present day Ligonier, PA
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