Display Patriot - P-167434 - Robert GOLDSBOROUGH

Robert GOLDSBOROUGH

SAR Patriot #: P-167434

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State of Service: MD      Qualifying Service: Civil Service / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A046142

Birth: 03 Dec 1733 Horn's Point / Dorchester / MD
Death: 20 Dec 1788 Cambridge / Dorchester / MD

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Delegate to the Continental Congress 1774-76
  2. Member of Committee of Safety, 1775
  3. Member of Committee of Defence
  4. Association of Freeman

Additional References:
  1. Archives of MD, Vol XI, pg 4, 5, 31, 34, 67
  2. Charles B Clark "The Eastern Shore of Maryland & Virginia", Vol I, pg 394
  3. Charles J Truitt "Breadbasket of The Revolution, Delmarva in the War for Independence", pg 4, 16, 20, 82, 150, 179
  4. Henry C Peden, Revolutionary Patriots in Dorchester COo, MD, 1775-1783, pg 81-82
  5. Thomas Scharf, History of Maryland, Vol II, 1879, pg 197, 227
  6. Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol X, No 2, 100-109

Spouse: Sarah Yerbury
Children: Richard; Charles; Rebecca; William;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1979-12-14 DC Unassigned Robert Rheem Goldsborough Jr (116371) Rebecca   
1986-03-27 MD 227643 Philip Lee Goldsborough (127440) Charles   
2011-08-19 DC 43409 Tilghman McCabe Jr. (178567) Charles   
Location:
Cambridge / Dorchester / MD / USA
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Author: Michael A. Irish
Robert Goldsborough (1733 – Dec 1788 Dorchester Co., MD)

Robert Goldsborough was born 1733. He was the son of Charles Goldsborough and Elizabeth Ennalls. He died Dec 1788 in Dorchester Co., MD. His service was as a . Attorney General of the Province, 1776. A member of the Continental Congress. A framer of Maryland's first Constitution, 1776. A member of the Convention of 1788 that retifed the Constituion of the United States. SAR Marker was placed at his grave in 1948-1949 by the Graves Registry Committee, Maryland Society, SAR. {Ref: "Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Dorchester County, Maryland", by Henry C. Peden, Jr., The Maryland and Delaware Genealogist, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, Fall 1988, p. 131} Civil Service

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