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• ID: I991
• Name: James Thomas GRAHAM
• Given Name: James Thomas
• Surname: Graham
• Sex: M
• Birth: Abt 1730 in , Monmouth, New Jersey, USA
• Death: 12 Jun 1779 in Gettysburg, Adam, Pennsylvania, USA of smallpox
• Burial: Tonoloway Baptist Cem, Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
• _UID: F8B51C190D08C645B1EAD0C2CBF17F54BEEE
• Change Date: 8 Apr 2008 at 15:01

Note: MILITARY RECORDS: He served in Captain Hendershot's Company of the First Battalion Bedford county, Pennsylvania Militia as a Lieutenant Colonel from 9 January to 10 March 1777. Ref: PA Archives - 5th Series - Vol. V - p.67 edited by T.L. Montgomery

HISTORY: Lieutenant Colonel James Graham received baptism by Reverend Samuel Heaton in 1752. Thereby, Colonel Graham was one of the first members of Tonoloway Church. In the year 1750, there were some Graham's living along the Tonoloway with John Graham as the head of the household. It appears that John was very likely the father of James Graham. The family migrated from New Jersey and settled on what has become the old Charlton farm near Warfordsburg. Colonel Graham died of smallpox during the Revolutionary War. He had served as a volunteer in the 1st Battalion of the Bedford County Militia. The history states that he and the other officers of this unit received little more pay than that of a private, Ref.#169; James Graham married Elizabeth, daughter of Elias Stillwell of Bedford County, Ref.#170; She became a widow as early as 1779, at which time she was paying taxes on a 200 acre farm, valued at $2500.00, Ref.#171; The children of Colonel Graham were Moses Graham, Mrs. Joseph Pittman, John Graham, and James Graham Jr., Ref.#172. Ref #169: Bedford History, pp.86, 595, 653; Ref.#170:Bedford County Will Book 21, p. 278; Ref.#171, Bethel Twp. Taxes 1779; Ref.#172 Bedford County Deed Book E, p. 246; Footnotes from p.72 of History of Tonoloway Baptist Church.

HISTORY: The following was taken from the Heady Family Newsletter. "The stream now known as Tonoloway Creek, but called 'Konolawa' by the Indians living along its bank and 'The Conolloways' by the white settlers, follows a meandering course through the southern part of present Fulton County, Pennsylvania crossing the boundary line into Maryland about three miles before it joins the Potomac at a point just below that river's northern most bend. The Big and Little Tonoloway Settlements lay about five miles north of the Potomac along branches of Tonoloway Creek and immediately west of the large and small basins named, respectively, the Great (Big) Cove and Little Cove. These settlements had been founded by a few Scotch-Irish immigrants, at least one Welch family (that of Evan Shelby), and a band of Monmouth and Middlesex county, New Jersey families, which included those of Moses Graham, William Linn, Joseph Warford, Adam Stiger, John Melott, Benjamin Truax, and Elias, Richard and Jeremiah Stillwell, Thomas Heady, Gavin Eddy, Samuel Hedden, the Coombs, Belieus, Applegates and no doubt others. Whether the Monmouth and Middlesex county families came as a unit or over a period of several years, is not known but they were all there by 1765 or earlier.

Father: John GRAHAM b: Abt 1706 c: in Tonoloway Church, Fulton, Pennsylvania, USA

• Marriage 1 Elizabeth STILLWELL b: 20 Apr 1732 in , Monmouth, New Jersey, USA
• Married: Abt 1754 in , Monmouth, New Jersey, USA
• Change Date: 21 Mar 2011
• Children
• Moses GRAHAM b: 6 Jul 1755 in , Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
• Rebecca GRAHAM b: Abt 1757 in , Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
• John GRAHAM b: Abt 1760 in , Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
• James GRAHAM b: Abt 1762 in , Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
• Elias GRAHAM b: Abt 1764 in , Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
• Thomas GRAHAM b: Abt 1766 in , Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
• Joseph GRAHAM b: 1769 in , Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
• Elizabeth GRAHAM b: Abt 1771 in , Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA
• Andrew GRAHAM b: 1773 in , Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA

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Millennium File about James Graham Name: James Graham Spouse: , Elizabeth Stillwell Birth Date: 1734 Birth County: of Fulton Birth State: Pennsylvania Birth Country: USA Death Date: 1778 Death County: Bedford Death State: Pennsylvania Death Country: USA Children: Elias Graham Moses Graham Other Information: Notes

MILITARY RECORDS: He served in Captain Hendershot's Company of the First Battalion Bedford county, Pennsylvania Militia as a Lieutenant Colonel from 9 January to 10 March 1777. Ref: PA Archives - 5th Series - Vol. V - p.67 edited by T.L. Montgomery

HISTORY: Lieutenant Colonel James Graham received baptism by Reverend Samuel Heaton in 1752. Thereby, Colonel Graham was one of the first members of Tonoloway Church. In the year 1750, there were some Graham's living along the Tonoloway with John Graham as the head of the household. It appears that John was very likely the father of James Graham. The family migrated from New Jersey and settled on what has become the old Charlton farm near Warfordsburg. Colonel Graham died of smallpox during the Revolutionary War. He had served as a volunteer in the 1st Battalion of the Bedford County Militia. The history states that he and the other officers of this unit received little more pay than that of a private, Ref.#169; James Graham married Elizabeth, daughter of Elias Stillwell of Bedford County, Ref.#170; She became a widow as early as 1779, at which time she was paying taxes on a 200 acre farm, valued at $2500.00, Ref.#171; The children of Colonel Graham were Moses Graham, Mrs. Joseph Pittman, John Graham, and James Graham Jr., Ref.#172. Ref #169: Bedford History, pp.86, 595, 653; Ref.#170:Bedford County Will Book 21, p. 278; Ref.#171, Bethel Twp. Taxes 1779; Ref.#172 Bedford County Deed Book E, p. 246; Footnotes from p.72 of History of Tonoloway Baptist Church.