_____________________
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_Ephraim BLAINE _____|
| (1741 - 1804) m 1765|
| |_____________________
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|--Ephraim E. BLAINE
| (1783 - 1863)
| _Robert GALBRAITH ___+
| | (1715 - 1746)
|_Rebecca GALBRAITH __|
(1745 - 1795) m 1765|
|_Rebecca WORK _______
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By his second marriage there was a son, Ephraim, who was drowned in the mill race at "Middlesex from Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III
Martha Porter Ewing Carson
cannot be wholely correct, if Blaine senior marriad second wife about 1796.
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_Arthur GALBRAITH ___+
| (1728 - 1818) m 1767
_Aeneas Sharp GALBRAITH _|
| (1793 - 1867) m 1816 |
| |_Mary Martin SHARPE _+
| (1747 - 1818) m 1767
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|--Frank GALBRAITH
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| _____________________
| |
|_Mary COLDWELL __________|
m 1816 |
|_____________________
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_John GALBRAITH _____+
| (1736 - 1809)
_William GALBRAITH __|
| (1757 - 1839) m 1788|
| |_Mary Ann -- ________
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|--James GALBRAITH
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Phoebe FOREMAN _____|
(1771 - 1849) m 1788|
|_____________________
_John GALBRAITH _____+
| (1690 - 1753)
_Robert GALBRAITH ___|
| (1715 - 1746) |
| |_Janet UNKNOWN ______
| (1693 - ....)
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|--John GALBRAITH
| (1736 - 1757)
| _____________________
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|_Rebecca WORK _______|
|
|_____________________
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Study of an Estate Inventory for John Galbreath:
On the Cover: "The Inventry of Jxx Galbreath Decd 1758". And, inside: "A True Inventry of Goods & Chattels Rights and Credits of Jxx Galbreath Late of Dunigale Deceasd Takin by Jxx Byers Admr Decbr 28th 1757"
A Bond Due by Jxx Bayly & Jxx Anderson 84
Cash Coming from his Grandfathers Estate 30
Cash from the Revd Joseph Tate 1
115 (in Pounds)
My first problem was the script. Although clearly written many of the letters were poorly formed. The "T" of Tate and 'Takin' were clearly made as an "E" and only from the context and finding references to Rev. Tate, I knew them to be a "T". The "a' in 'Chattles' and some other words looked to be a 'u' or an 'n'. Thus I was confronted in five places with a three letter name beginning with 'J' followed with either 'a' or 'n' and ending with a vertical squiggle. Is it 'Jas' or 'Jno'? I would say that the Anderson first name is James, 'Jas' as the second letter is partly closed and I was able to identify a likely James Anderson in other records. Then, since the remaining four cases were all similar to each other they might well be Jno, John.
As it appeared this document was, as the first, for a John Galbreath and filed by Mrs. Booth alongside the first estate document and the reported death dates were only days apart I suspected that the two individuals were the same. However, I worried about two points. The first John was "Late of Midleton" and the other "Late of Dunigale". I even excused this, thinking that the poor spelling of Donegal was due to limited knowledge of a Clerk in Cumberland and the "Late" meant John had recently moved from there. However, there was no way to rectify the fact with the second document the inventory had been conducted by Jxx (likely John) Byers who was acting as Administrator. This is a Court appointed individual, usually of the family, who acts when there is no will with an acceptable executor. We know that the first John had made a will that was probated and thus there were two John Galbreaths, dying at the nearly the same time.
Turning then to the Internet, especially Google search, I first tried to identify the other parties coupling them with Donegal and sometimes Galbraith or Galbreath. The Rev. Joseph Tate (pre 1728-1774) is prominent among early American Presbyterians and in his early years, beginning in late 1748 was the pastor at Donegal. He was ordained and married Margaret Boyd, both events on 23 November 1748. James Anderson (son of James from Scotland, the predecessor to Rev. Tate) was born May 14, 1721 in New York City, New York; died June 1, 1790 in Donegal in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Anderson married (1) Ruth Bayley and (2) Margaret Tate. Margaret Tate was the widow of Rev. Tate. Brothers John and James Bayly both lived in Donegal. The Galbraiths had several connections with that family. Margaret, daughter to John Galbraith (born 1690) married John Bayley. Ann, daughter to Bertram (son of James Galbraith) married Thomas, the son of James Bayly of Donegal. When I searched John Byers/Donegal/GalbraithORGalbreath I got several hits, one on own material, and the identity of this John Galbreath was immediately apparent.
Robert Galbraith at age three had come to America with his father John and grandfather James in 1718. Robert married Rebecca Work and they had a John (1739) and a Rebecca (1742) . Robert died in 1746, directing mother Rebecca as guardian, with the proviso for grandfather John Galbraith to assume responsibility after four years. Grandfather John died in Donegal in 1753 leaving bequests to daughter (in-law) Rebecca, and grandchildren John and Rebecca. Widow Rebecca subsequently married Captain John Byers of Donegal. Orbison strays at this point and builds a considerable biography for our John Galbreath ending with his death in 1824. Jean Harriger proved that this was a different John and said "no records have been found to show just what did happen to this John Galbraith, son of Robert and Rebecca Work".
However, Lela Booth had found the record. Thus we have that John Galbreath (1736-1757) was related to three people in the inventory document: John Byers, his step-father, John Bayly, his uncle (spouse to Margaret) and his grandfather John Galbreath who raised him for several years and left him property rights.
ENDNOTES: Deciphering the script is a normal problem with early documents because of poor handwriting, lack of punctuation, archaic or misspelling and document damage. With this document the script is beautiful and the paper was in good shape, however, the numeral '8' is very oddly made and the cover year seems to be 17507, as the '8' is rather like as a Greek Theta on its side. Note that alternative spellings were used for 'Chattels' and 'Middleton' Township. I have attempted to correctly quote the material as written in the documents, without resorting to sic.
It is obviously important that the researcher provide the location of the document.
Material from the Orbison manuscript with amendments and corrections by Jean Harriger. Typed by Barbara Patterson in the Collection of Galbraith Families of Donegal, Lancaster County.
I have made his birth year earlier since there was no mention of John as a minor in the Estate Inventory and this birth would make him 14, a transition age for minor rights, when his grandfather took charge in 1750. I would disregard Egle's conjecture that this John Galbreath married Mary McCormick.
_Andrew GALBRAITH ___+
| (1692 - 1762)
_Arthur GALBRAITH ___|
| (1728 - 1818) m 1767|
| |_Mary KYLE __________
| (1688 - 1735)
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|--Margaret GALBRAITH
| (1770 - 1853)
| _John SHARPE ________
| |
|_Mary Martin SHARPE _|
(1747 - 1818) m 1767|
|_Jane HAMILTON ______
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Please contact compiler at FindPitts@aol.com if you discover any errors or have additional information to add.
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_Benjamin GASS ______|
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| |_____________________
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|--Mary GASS
| (1742 - ....)
| _James GALBRAITH ____+
| | (1666 - 1744)
|_Eleanor GALBRAITH __|
(1710 - 1758) |
|_Rebecca CHAMBERS ___+
[41]
I question this lady being a McCullough;
the real Jane McCullough had married John of Philadelphia
[1402] at marriage shown as Jane McColloch. I am undertain if this women married the John Galbraith of the genealogy or if she was perhaps the spouse to John Galbraith who appears in Philadelphia WB N:504 with wife Jean, brother James, Robert sisters Lettice, Elizabeth, Sarah , Nancy and grand-children of d. Margaret.
_John GILBREATH _____+
| (1768 - 1850)
_Andrew GILBREATH ___|
| (1788 - 1870) |
| |_Mary COFFEE ________
| (1758 - 1843)
|
|--Elijah MCINTOSH
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Rachel MCINTOSH ____|
(1800 - 1870) |
|_____________________
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_William STEWART ____+
| (1738 - 1811) m 1760
_William II STEWART _|
| (1779 - 1825) m 1802|
| |_Mary GASS __________+
| (1742 - ....) m 1760
|
|--Mary III STEWART
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Sarah MCKIBBEN _____|
(1780 - 1819) m 1802|
|_____________________
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