The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Birth: 29 May 1729 / Chester / PA Death: 15 Dec 1786 Lancaster / Lancaster / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
He served as Commissary General of hides for Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.
Member of the Committee of Correspondence
Member of the Council of Safety
Justice of the Peace
President of the Court of Common Pleas
Representative to the General Assembly
County Treasurer
Additional References:
Hazard, Samuel, Pennsylvania Archives First Series, Vol X, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Joseph Severns & Co, 1854, pg 354, 437, 534
Linn, John B. and William HeglePennsylvania Archives Second Series, Vol III, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, State Printers, 1896, pg 686-740
A granite monument memorializing reenturred remains from the Price Street Cemetery of the Moravian Church in 1917, and has a Department of Veterans Affairs flag sticker maker
A second upright headstone from that time period is for William Henry, mentions his wife as inturred at Darby, and names their some Benjamin West Henry, and no marker
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
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