James Gault (1687 - 1762)

Born 1687 in Antrim, Ulster, Ireland

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Died 11 Jan 1762 at about age 75 in Salisbury, Lancaster, PA

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Biography

Robert Gault, his son James, his son-in-law, William Wilson, and grandson Robert Armor, then in boyhood, emigrated from Ireland at an early time in the settlement of Pequea Valley. It is supposed they settled about the year 1710.

James Gault married Miss Alison, and had five sons, - Robert, John, William, James, and Thomas. Thomas had two sons, James and Alexander. Alexander married a Miss Gilkeson, and had two sons, William and John. John had no family. William married Miss Patton, by whom he had five children: John Gilkeson Gault, deceased; Mary Jane; W.P. who married Miss Black; A.W.; and Martha A., who married John Magil. ^[1]

James Galt, one of the children of Robert Gait who accompanied him to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, from the North of Ireland, in 1710, married, in 1720, a Miss Allison. He succeeded to the Salisbury plantation and took up other lands adjoining, which descended to his five sons, Robert, who settled in Chester county ; John and James, who erected mills on the headquarters of Pequea Creek, in Salisbury, long known as the Galt Mills; William and Thomas. Thomas Galt, the youngest of the five sons, was a pioneer in Cumberland county, in his youth, but was driven back by the Indians during the "great runaway" of the early settlers caused by the horrible Indian depredations and outrages between the years 1753 and 1763. Returning to Lancaster county, Thomas Galt located in the Conestoga Valley, in Earl township. Both Thomas Galt and his elder brother James were members of Captain Robert Buyer's company. Fifth Battalion, Lancaster County Militia, under the command of Colonel James Crawford, and participated in the "Jersey Campaign" of 1776, both their names appearing on a muster roll of the company taken at "Bergen Town Camp" (Bergen county, N. J.), September 4, 1776, certified to by the lieutenant of the company, James Armour, which shows that it was part of the Flying Camp. Both James and Thomas Galt served later as members of the Lancaster county militia, as did James Galt, Jr., son of Thomas, and father of Mrs. Nichols, though the latter appears only in the later years of the Revolution, being even then a youth. Thomas Galt married Isabel Wilson and had two sons, James and Alexander. James Galt, son of Thomas and Isabel (Wilson) Galt inherited from his uncles, John and James Galt, the old homestead in Salisbury township, Lancaster county, and settled thereon at the time of his marriage to Mary, daughter of Alexander and Catharine (Henry) Martin, and spent the remainder of his life there. He became an elder of Pequea Presbyterian Church in 1796. His wife was a granddaughter of Matthew Martin, who came from the north of Ireland and settled at Cedar Grove, Lancaster county, the site of Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church. ^[2]

James was born in 1690. He passed away in 1762. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. - By Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Evans, Samuel, 1823-1908, joint authors - Published 1883 Page 1052 and 1053
2. ↑ Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, page 1152
3. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to William Francis.

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