Person:John Ralston (17)

John Ralston

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Name^[1]	John Ralston
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	Abt 1740	Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage		Northampton, Pennsylvania, United Statesto Christiana King

References

↑ Family Recorded, in Clyde, John Cunningham. Rosbrugh, a tale of the Revolution, or, Life, labors and death of Rev. John Rosbrugh: pastor of Greenwich, Oxford and Mansfield Woodhouse (Washington) Presbyterian Churches, N.J., from 1764 to 1769, and of Allen Township Church, Pa., from 1769 to 1777 : chaplain in the Continental Army, clerical martyr of the Revolution, killed by Hessians, in the Battle of Assunpink, at Trenton, New Jersey, Jan. 2d, 1777. (Easton Pa.: New Jersey Historical Society, 1880)
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... John Ralston - brother-in-law - also as we have seen - became a member of the Constitutional Convention which was framed the first constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in 1776, by which the people were to have no longer a government of a Colonial character, but that of a free and sovereign State. He was a member of the Continental Congress and also, we believe, a member of the committee or convention which framed the Articles of Confederation. ...