Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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Robert Galbraith




Husband Robert Galbraith 1

           Born: 1740 2
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           Died: Jan 1804 - Huntingdon Co, PA 2
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         Father: James Galbraith, Jr. (1703-1786) 3 4 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Bertram (1714/1718-1799) 1 3 4 6





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General Notes: Husband - Robert Galbraith


He was appointed Prothonotary for Bedford County, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1777; he was also Justice for the same county. In 1778, he removed to York, and there practiced law; he was a member of the Assembly from that county, and was appointed agent to sell the confiscated estates of the Tories; he returned to Bedford County in 1784, and November 28, 1787, was appointed President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County; he was an officer in the Revolution, and served with honor to himself and country.

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Sources


1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 647, 660.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 660.

3 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 749, 760.

4 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 895.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 647, 659.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 272.


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