Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs . Baergen Town Camp (Bergen county, N. J.), September 4, 1776,certified to by the lieutenant of the company, James Armour, which shows thatit was part of the Flying Camp. Both James and Thomas Galt served lateras members of the Lancaster county militia, as did James Galt, Jr., son ofThomas, and father of Mrs. Nichols, though the latter appears only in the lateryears of the Revolution, being even then a youth. Thomas Galt married IsabelWilson and had two sons, James and Alexander. James Galt, son of Thomas an
Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs . Baergen Town Camp (Bergen county, N. J.), September 4, 1776,certified to by the lieutenant of the company, James Armour, which shows thatit was part of the Flying Camp. Both James and Thomas Galt served lateras members of the Lancaster county militia, as did James Galt, Jr., son ofThomas, and father of Mrs. Nichols, though the latter appears only in the lateryears of the Revolution, being even then a youth. Thomas Galt married IsabelWilson and had two sons, James and Alexander. James Galt, son of Thomas and Isabel (Wilson) Galt inherited from hisuncles, John and James Galt, the old homestead in Salisbury township, Lancas-ter county, and settled thereon at the time of his marriage to Mary, daughterof Alexander and Catharine (Henry) Martin, and spent the remainder of hislife there. He became an elder of Pequea Presbyterian Church in 1796. Hiswife was a granddaughter of Matthew Martin, who came from the north ofIreland and settled at Cedar Grove, Lancaster county, the site of Cedar Grove. NICHOLS 1153 Presbyterian church. Her maternal ancestors, the Henry family, were veryprominent in Lancaster county in both Colonial and Revolutionary periods, someaccount of them being given elsewhere in these volumes. James and Mary (Martin) Gait had twelve children, nine of whom livedto mature years, viz: James, John, Thomas, Alexander, Eliza, Catharine (thewife of Robert Darrah) Lydia, Mary and Isabella. Robert and Catharine (Gait) Darrah had three sons and six daughters. Theeldest son, Rev. James Darrah, graduated *at Princeton in the class of 1840,studied law and was admitted to the Bucks county bar in 1843, but in the sameyear entered the Theological Seminary of Yale College, and on September 23,1846, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia and was for manyyears employed in missionary work in Virginia and the Western States. Hewas pastor of churches at St. Louis and West Ely
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