Person:John Graham (102)
John Graham
b.1738 County Donegal, Ireland
d.4 Jul 1793 Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania
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  1. Hugh Graham1762 - 1834
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Name John Graham
Gender Male
Birth? 1738 County Donegal, Ireland
Alt Birth? Ireland
Marriage to Ann Gilliland
Death? 4 Jul 1793 Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania
Alt Death? Pennsylvania
Religion? Presbyterian

Revolutionary War veteran.

John Graham and Ann Gilliland Graham emigrated from Ireland to settle in Pennsylvania about the time of the American Revolution. They had 10 children, the youngest was Hugh. Hugh Graham married Mary Wallace and they had 8 children. Their son, Robert, born in 1791, is my great-great grandfather. He served in the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia during the war of 1812. In September of 1814, he was on the battlefield at Ft. McHenry during the British bombardment that Francis Scott Key memorialized in his poem “Defense of Fort McHenry,” better known today as “The Star Spangled Banner.”

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