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James. Galbraith, Jr., was in his generation the most prominent of the name and family. He mar- ried Elizabeth, the only daughter of Rev. William Bertram, the Presbyterian minister who settled on the Swatara, and preached at Derty and Paxton Churches from 1729 to May 2, 1746, when he died. He was in early life an Indian trader. His name is first mentioned in connection with a publie position in October, 1742, when he was elected sheriff of the county. He was also re-elected in 1743. In 1753 he was commissioned one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas. He purchased a mill and farm at Spring Creek on the Swatara, adjoining Rev. Ber- tram's place, in 1744.
On the 25th day of May, 1748, the associators met and elected James and his brother, John Galbraith, captains. The several companies afterwards elected the former lieutenant-colonel, and he was accordingly commissioned as such. During the French and In- dian war of 1755-60, when the savages were com- mitting depredations and murdering the defenseless settlers along the frontier, he was one of the most active in organizing companies of rangers and post- ing them along the eastern base of the Blue Moun- tains, and on one occasion when the Indians ent off all communication between Fort Augusta (Sunbury) and Harris' Ferry, and prevented supplies being sent to the troops stationed at that fort under the
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command of Col. James Burd at great risk and dan- ger, succeeded in getting a fleet of bateaux, under command of Capt. Daniel Lowrey, with provisions and ammunition for the troops. When the settlers were being murdered around him, and others fleeing from threatened attacks from the Indians, he appealed to the Governor and Council for help, but he stood his ground manfully and ranged with his troops along the Blue Ridge. His energy upon this trying occa- sion prevented the Indians from raiding the settle- ments in Donegal township and the northern section of the county. In 1737 he was appointed one of the commissioners to erect a fort at Wyoming.
He accumulated a very large landed estate. lle moved from the Swatara to the Susquehanna, near IIarris' Ferry, thence to Pennsboro' township, Cum- berland Co., and was appointed one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas for that county in 1763. In 1777 he was appointed lieutenant of Cumberland County, but on account of his great age was unable to perform the active duties of the office. He died June 11, 1786, aged eighty-three years, and left sev- eral sons and daughters, among whom were Bertram, Robert, Andrew, and John. Robert was appointed prothonotary of Bedford County. He afterwards re- moved to York, where he practiced law, and was elected to the General Assembly from that county, and was afterwards appointed president judge of Huntingdon County. Andrew was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and served with honor to himself and country. The late Chief Justice John Bannister Gibson married a daughter of Andrew.
John, the remaining son, enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary war, being at the time a mere lad. Ile was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, and for several years was kept a prisoner in New York, suffering great hardships. His son, John G dl- braith, was a member of Congress for three terms from the Erie District, and at the time of his death was president judge of the district then composed of the counties of Erie, Crawford, and Warren. The present president judge of the Sixth Judicial Dis- trict of Pennsylvania, Hon. William A. Galbraith, is the only son of the late llon. John Galbraith, who died in 1860, and is a great-grandson of Col. James Galbraith, Jr., of Revolutionary memory. James and Elizabeth Galbraith also had sons- Wil- liam and Thomas-and daughters, -- Dorcas and Eliz- abeth. The family of Galbraith is of the remotest antiquity ; its name is derived from the Celtic, and it originally belonged to the Lennox, of Scotland.
Col. Alexander Lowrey, another pioneer of the township who was famous, came to America from the north of Ireland with his father, Lazarus Lowrey, in 1729, when he was six years of age. He remained with his father, who owned and had a trading-post upon the farm now owned by the Hon. J. Donakl Cameron, about midway between Marietta and Don- egal meeting house, until he was twenty-one years of
age. We have spoken of him as an Indian trader elsewhere, and will in this connection take up his civil and military career. On the 26th day of Sep- tember, 1752, he married Mary Waters, who was then twenty years of age, by whom he had six children.
His success in business from the time he became of age was remarkable. Although he, in common with other Indian traders, met with very heavy losses during the Indian wars, and many of them were completely ruined, he continued to follow and re- mained in the business for forty years. His field of operations extended as far west as the Mississippi River and on the north to the great lakes. He learned readily the language of the Indians, and could speak the dialects of a number of tribes. In stature he was over six feet in height, raw-boned and athletic. Ile traveled many hundreds of miles through the ludiau country on foot, with nothing but his trusty rifle to supply himself with his daily ! food. One of his first and largest purchases of land was his father's plantation of three hundred and fifty acres, bought from his executors in 1755. It was his ambition to own the numerous farms possessed at one time or another by his father. In 1759 he purchased four hundred acres of land on the river which his brother John owned in 1748, and after he was killed by the Indians, in 1750, purchased by his brother Daniel in the fall of 1750. Upon this last tract he moved, where he remained till his death (with the exception of a few years at the close of the Revolu- tionary war). In 1770 he purchased the ground-rents of Maytown and about eight hundred acres of land, extending east, west, and sonth of that place, which belonged to Jacob Downer, who laid out the town. He added gradually to his lauded estate many thon- sands of aeres in York and Bedford Counties and in the western part of the State.
Before the conflict between Great Britain and her colonies assumeda belligerent attitude he took strong and decided ground in defense of the colonists. Ile was surrounded by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, who were equally patriotic. When they met for worship at their meeting-house under the giant oaks, they agitated and discussed the probabilities of the coming conflict.
In July, 1774, he was chosen a member of the Com- mittee on Correspondence, who were to consult with a general committee which met in Philadelphia on the 15th day of July, 1774. In December of the same year he was appointed on a committee to watch suspected parties, and prevent them, if possible, from purchasing tea or giving aid or comfort to the enemy.
lle was elected to the General Assembly in 1775. and was also a member of Assembly in 1776, and of the convention which framed the first Constitution of the State, which was set forth in strong and pointed lan- guage, as forcible and unmistakable in its declara- tion of republican principles as the great national Declaration itself.
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In 1776 he raised a battalion, made up entirely of , Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, in the townships of Done- gal, Mount Joy, Rapho, and vicinity. He was en- camped for some time in the vicinity of Middletown. After his companion in arms and equally patriotic
This was the only son who survived him. In his lifetime he placed him upon a farm of twelve hun- dred acres at Frankstown, on the Juniata, where he married the daughter of Capt. John Holliday, the founder of. Hollidaysburg. He had a son, Alexan- neighbor, Col. Bertram Galbraith, who also raised a i der, who was born in 1786. He married Miss Bom- battalion in the western part of the townships of | Donegal and Derry, was appointed lieutenant of the county, his duties were enlarged, and it required great energy and physical endurance to respond to the duties assigned him.
When expresses were sent to the commanders of the different battalions in the summer of 1777 to call out the militia and march immediately to Chester in defense of the commonwealth along the Delaware, he was found in Donegal meeting-house. Services ended abruptly, and an impromptu meeting of officers and men convened outside of the meeting-house, under a large oak-tree still standing near the front doors.
On the following day the battalion was on the . march for the Delaware. Col. Lowrey's, Col. Greena- walt's, and Col. Watson's battalions met at Chester, and marched from there to Wilmington, thence to ' ried a Mr. Moore; another daughter married Mr. Newport, Del., where they were mustered Sept. 6, 1777.
Col. Lowrey was also elected to the General Assem- bly in 1778, 1779, 1780, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788. In 1784 he was appointed by the government to act as messenger to collect several tribes of Indians and bring them to Fort MeIntosh, on the Ohio River, where a treaty was held with them. In August, 1791, 1 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the State Senate caused by the death of Sebastian Graff, of Manheim township. He served until the following October.
Ilis advancing years and growing infirmities inci- dent to a long life of exposure admonished him to , child, Sarah, who married Adam Ross, who had retire from public life and seek repose and ease upon i children,-George, Mary, John, Robert, and Thomas. his beautiful plantation back of Marietta.
Although a slavehokler, when the law authorizing the gradual emancipation of slavery in the State wa> under discussion, he took positive and strong ground against the separation of slave families by sale to different persons.
In 1773 he lost his wife, and in 1774 he married Ann Alrieks, the widow of Harmanus Alricks, the first prothonotary of Cumberland County in 1750, who was a descendant of Peter Mricks, the Dutch Governor at the fort at New Castle, on the Dela- ware, before the arrival of Penn in 1682. By this marriage Col. Lowrey had one child, Frances, born Feb. 1, 1775, died 1850. (See Evans family.) Mrs. Lowrey died where Col. Lowrey lived, in Lancaster, a few years after the close of the Revolutionary war. Watson Family. - David Watson was born in the north of Ireland in October, 1734, and came to Amer- ica with his uncle, James Stephenson, who took up three hundred and twenty-four acres of land adjoin- ing the Donegal meeting-house glebe land on the north, about the year 1719, for which he took out a In 1792 he married Sarah Cochran, a widow, who re- sided at or near York Springs, York Co. She sur- . vived him a few years, and left no issue by him. His children by Mary, Waters were Alexander, born April 21, 1756 ; Elizabeth, born Oct. 31, 1757; Mary, born May 21, 1761; Lazarus, born Jan. 27, 1764. patent Aug. 11, 1749, and called it "Seat of Beauty."
bough, who died in March, 1852. He died in Aug- ust, 1854, near Hollidaysburg, leaving two daughters Fand three sons. One of the daughters, Margaretta, married James M. Kinkade, an ironmaster in Bed- ford County ; Hetty never married; Alexander, her brother, resides in Butler, Butler Co., Pa. ; John F. lives in Hopewell, Bedford Co. ; Robert removed to Davenport, fowa. Hle served a number of years in both branches of the Iowa State Legislature, and was appointed by the Governor a commissioner to the Centennial Exposition in 1776. Hle is now register- general of the land-office in Dakota Territory.
Lazarus Lowrey had four sons and seven daughters. Lazarus, the son, also moved to Davenport, where he died in 1868, leaving one daughter and three sons. Robert died at Hollidaysburg in 18#1 ; Caroline mar- Getty, and was living in Bedford County a few years ago. After Col. Lowrey retired to his farm to seek the repose old age required, he was appointed a jus- tice of the peace by Governor Thomas Mifflin in 1791. He died on the last day of January, 1805.
Margaret, daughter of Alexander and Mary Waters, married George Plummer.
The Stephensons .- Nathaniel Stephenson came to Donegal about the year 1738, and took up three hun- dred acres of land adjoining the glebe lands of Don- egal Church on the northwest. (The land is now owned by Gon. Simon Cameron.) Ile had but one
Nathaniel's brother, John, moved to South Carolina, and had a son, Jantes. His sister Hannah married John Gray. His sister Susanna married James Carr, who had James and Samuel. A sister married a Watson, and had a son, David, who married and moved to Strasburg township, and a son, James, who became a colonel in the Revolutionary war, and commanded a battalion of militia from the southeastern end of the county, and was at the battle of Brandywine. le moved to Cumberland County at the close of the war. There are numerous descendants of this family along the West Brauch. Their sister, Elizabeth Watson, married William Brisbin ; Hannah married Archibald MeCurdy; Susannah married Robert Young.
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He gave this land to his son Nathaniel, who died without issue.
On Sept. 5, 1780, the exeentors of Nathaniel Ste- phenson conveyed the farm to Jasper Yeates, Esq., who reconveyed it to David Watson on the same day. He was married, first, to Miss Hamilton, daughter of Mr. Hamilton, who resided at " Waterloo," in Salisbury township. After his marriage he removed from his uncle Stephenson's to Strasburg town-hip, now in Paradise township. He was married the second time to Sarah, daughter of the late Samuel Patterson, who settled in Leacock township, on the Pequea, prior to 1743, and took up two hundred and fifty acres, and whose daughter Margaret married Col. James Mercer, a prominent officer in the Revolutionary war, a member of the General Assembly for 1782, 1783, 1784. Mr. Watson and Col. Mercer purchased the land left by Mr. Patterson, and Mr. Watson moved upon this farm in Leacock township. Watson was appointed one of the justices of the Court of Com- mon Pleas. He was a prominent patriot during the Revolution, and rendered valuable service to the cause when serving on various committees, le ad- ministered the oath of allegiance to a large number of citizens in his own and neighboring townships.
By his first wife he had Jane, born March 7, 1761 ; John, born Dee. 25, 1762, died Nov. 16, 1843; Wil- liam, born Nov. 10, 1765, married - Chambers ; Mary, boru Sept. 1, 1768, married Emor Jeffries; Margaret ( Willson), who resided in Donegal; Na- thauiel, born Sept. 21, 1774, who married a Miss Ham- ilton, and resided upon his father's farm ou Pequea. He was a prominent officer in the war of 1812, and commanded the Lancaster County troops at Balti- more; a member of the State Senate for the years 1810 and 1811. James, born Dec. 20, 1777.
David Watson's second wife was Margaret Patter- son, the daughter of Samnel Patterson, by whom he had one son, Samuel Patterson Watson.
Dr. John Watson, the second son of David (1731- 1805), was born in Strasburg township, now Paradise township, Dec. 25, 1762. He married Margaret Clemson, daughter of James Clemson, Esq., of Salis- bury township, on the 25th day of July, 1784. Their children were Molly, Rachel, Margaret, David C., James C., Nathaniel, John C., and Sarah C.
David @, was a captain in the war of 1812. Ile lo- cated at Bainbridge soon after the war, where he attained a large practice.
Nathaniel Watson studied medicine, and had a large practice in Donegal and neighboring townships for many years.
Sarah, born 1802, married E-aias Elhnaker.
James C. (1805-80) was born in Donegal, at the old homestead adjoining the meeting-house. He re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1847. He was licensed to preach the gospel April, 1830. He preached in various places in Pennsylvania and else- where until his death, in 1880.
The Bayly Family. - Thomas Bayly was the pioneer settler of this family, and located about a mile west from Mount Joy borough, ou the turnpike, prior to 1740, After his death his widow, Mary. took out a patent, Aug. 8, 1743, for two hundred and twenty- nine aeres, and in September, 1749, she conveyed it to her sons, John and James, who on May 2, 1763, con- veyed one hundred and twenty nine acres of this tract to Thomas Anderson, the son of Rev. James Ander- son. He was sold out in 1767 by the sheriff, and his brother James purchased the land. His grand- daughter, Elizabeth Kelly, married Thomas Bayly, the son of John Bayly, to whose children this farm descended, and who sold one hundred and ninety- seven neres in 1799 to Frederick Stump, of Columbia.
John Bayly, son of Thomas, purchased four huu- dred aeres of land and a grist- and saw-mill from the executors of the estate of John Galbraith in 1757. He converted the old tavern, built by John Galbraith at the run, into a storehouse. He was a zealons and ardent patriot during the Revolutionary war. He was elected to the Council. The following is a copy of a letter written by Mr. Bayly, which fully explains matters then transpiring :
" DUNNEGALL, LANCASTER COUNTY, June ye 27th, 1777. " To His Excellency THOMAS WARTON,
" Comunter and Chief in and over the State of Pennsyla.
" Du Sik. - I have been in a very poor State of health ever since 1 came Home, the cold and Cough I had when in Town, hath ine reas'd by the wet weather I had Coming Home, which hath pint me in a slow fever, But if it please God I get any better in health, I Shall go to Town to the Conned and give what asistance I can. the oposition given to the laws, by the Dutch, at Leuth hath Broken out into open Rebellion, they had threatned so much and bound themselves to each other, that any Con- stable that would levey on their floods, for the lines ipox'd by the Melitiu law, the would Rebel against them, So that the Con-tibles would not go withont a gnard of aimed men, accordingly on the 25th Instant, Colonel Lowrey Sent an Olheer and Six men with the Constable, by order of n Magistrate, to Levy for the hues due by one Saml. Allright, who had got entiligance of their conning, and got together Twelve men und a munher uf of women Armed with Sithes, Coulters, & Pitch foks, and the first stroke paten struck one of the guard with a coulter, behind his lark, winch split hus skud a bont 4 or 5 Inches, the rest of the guard thought they were all in danger of then Laves, were forced to fire on the rebels, and Shot three of the ringleaders, but having no mote Ammuni- tion, but what hist loaded their Proces, and sable hadd none at the first, was Obliged to fler for their lives till the would git Ammunition, yester- day we got evidence against the Twelve that were al the husene, lake Wise 23 Munte that were in league with them, we are Obliged to keep the Militia that were on marelang orders, till we suppress this Rebellion these three that ate Shott ar of these Constenions People menoncasts who Preten non resistance, and persive (thediente, and there is about 15 o to More of the Same sact in the publick Cald. But I think the greater jest of that sit together with Zealous friends, are Secretly fa- menting the whode Peistading these other silly People of the Dutch, that if they resisted, and stand out that we are not able to put the Laws on Exvention against them. Think it would be advisable when these 14 are taken that were in the cost, Should be taken tu Philadelphia Goal. for Lancaster Inhabitats for the most part as you may see, by their Op- Positions of the Laws, and having such a large number of the British Prisoners lakewir such a large number of the heatans, who me Chiefly ont amongs't those Disaffeted Jermans, your Excellencies advice in this would be of much service, Lietenant Galbraith, Colonel Lowrey, & thu rest of they Fuld off is of Ins Bittahon, and what few Magistrates are here, Get Iattle rest night or day, endeavouring to rafree the Laws, but I hope if we had those Twelve sent to Philola, and the Heads men of the others in oposition, put under Bail to Answer the nox Court, I think our Afaits would go im afterwards with more regularity. I havesit the honom of bring your exeloncies Sincere friend and Humbol Son't
" Jonx BAYLS "
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Mr. Bayly died in 1794, leaving a widow, Hannah, The Sterretts .- John Sterrett, the pioneer settler of the name, located in Donegal township in 1720, near Chikis Creek. He was very active in Cresap's war, and helped to arrest him. He was elected sheriff_in and the following-named children : James, who got one hundred acres of land on the east side of the run ; Thomas, died intestate, and left a widow, Ann, but no children. On the 10th day of March, 1792, his father ' 1744. He died in 1747, leaving a widow, Martha, gave him the one-fourth of one hundred and eighty- seven acres at 'the mouth of Conewago Creek, upon which the town of Falmouth stands. John, moved to Frederick County, Md., in 1810; Margaret; Mary, married James Anderson, the founder of Marietta ; Ruth, married Dr. Maxwell MeDowell, of Baltimore, Md .; Hannah, married John Greer, of York ; Jenet, married Penrose Robinson, a merchant of York.
and the following-named children : James, Joseph, Mary, Ann, Elizabeth, married Elward Crawford ; Martha, married James Willson ; Sarah, married Abraham Lowrey; another daughter married Wil- liam Young. In 1745, 1746, 1747, James Sterrett was elected sheriff. fle married Sarah, daughter of Rich- ard Allison, who owned several hundred acres of land along Donegal Run, adjoining Andrew Galbraith on the southeast, to which he moved. He died in 1808, aged eighty-six years. His family con-isted of James, who married Miss Hannah, and removed to Tusca- rora Valley in 1806; William, married Miss Patter- son, who are the parents of Hon. James Sterrett, judge of the Supreme Court. Jamey and Sarah Ster- rett's other children were Robert, David, Joseph Nathaniel, Francis, Mary.
The Evans Family .- John Evans, a native of Wales, landed in Philadelphia with a family of seven persons, viz., his father, mother, wife, daughter, brother, and sister, and after a short sojourn with the Welsh settlers on the west side of the Schuylkill, he purchased two hundred acres in the Welsh tract in New Castle County, Del., to which he removed in the year 1696. His brother being a carpenter was of great assistance to him in making improvements upon his land. His daughter died soon after he made his settlement, but a son, John, was born in the year . 1700; both wife and son died soon afterwards. Before this, however, John, the father, left his first purchase and bought four hundred acres of land on White Clay Creek, in Chester County, just below the village of Landingburg, in the township of London Britain, whereon he erected a grist- and saw-mill on or before the year 1715.
In the year 1718, Reynold Howell, a native of the temporary line was run between Pennsylvania ' Wales and a Baptist minister, arrived in Philadelphia and Maryland in 1739, James Mitchell, John Gal- ' with his wife and six children,-Jane, Lewis, Mary, braith, John Mitchell, John Kelly, Francis Stewart, Gordon Howard, and Alexander Mitchell, all of Dou. egal, assisted the commissioners of the two provinces. 1Ie was elected a member of Assembly for the years 1727, 1714-46. In the year 1741 he was elected sheriff ' from there, and he accordingly purchased a farm in George, Margaret, and William,-and the next year settled upon a farm near the Delaware River, and below the mouth of the Christiana Creek. This place proving to be unhealthy, he was induced to remove the Welsh tract, adjoining the present town of New- ark, Del.
of the county. He and James Le Tort held a treaty with the Nanticoke and other Indians at Conoy in 1723. James Mitchell owned and resided upon a farm which lay south of John Galbraith (miller) and east of John Stewart's, and between the Marietta and Mount Joy turnpike and Little Chikis Creek. fle . father died in 1740.
died in 1747, leaving the following-named children : James, Alexander, Thomas, William, Jean, Rachel, Mary, Margaret.
Thomas Mitchell, brother of John (not the one mentioned above), died in 1734, and left children, -- John, Martha, MeCary, Jean, and Jennet.
John Evans, Jr., married Jane Howell, the eldest daughter, aud settled at the mill on White Clay Creek in 1722. He died April 14, 1738, and his
In 1734, John Evans, Jr., purchased from John Evans, Esq., of Denbigh, in Wales, one thousand acres in what was then New Garden township, Che>- ter Co., adjoining the land upon which he was then settled.
By his will John Evans, Jr., gave to his son John
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James Bayly, brother of John, was equally promi- nent. Hle resided upon and owned the farm adjoin- ing "Dufly's Park" on the north, which he pur- chased Aug. 7, 1767, of Jacob Downer, which his son John sold to Mr. Graybill, and is now owned in part by Abraham N. Cassel, of Marietta. He was a justice of the peace, and of the Court of Common Pleas, during the Revolution, before whom the oath of alle- giance was taken by the citizens of Donegal and vi- cinity. He was also "wagonmaster," an important position in that trying period. He issued the order for Albright's arrest, referred to in his brother John's letter. Ile married, the second time, Mary Cook, widow. He left the following-named children : John, to whom he gave the homestead farm, and who sold it, Oct. 1, 1793, to Jacob Giraybill (miller) ; Thomas, who got the land adjoining Maytown; Mary, who married Richard Keyes; Ruth, who married Stephen Stephenson (who was an officer in the army that went to the western part of the State to quell the Whiskey Insurrection ).
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