Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Henry Hale GRAHAM
Henry Hale Graham, beside the Chester Co. Seal [ See Scan.]..(a nephew of George Graham, the inventor of the chronometer, for which the English nation gave his remains interment in Westminster Abbey), was born in London, England, July 1, 1731. His father, William Graham, born April 25, 1692, on December 31, 1729, married Eleanor Wyatt, daughter of Zedekiah Wyatt. Henry Hale Graham, when a child of three years, came with his parents to the colony, and when eighteen he became deputy prothonotary of Chester county under Joseph Parker, and in 1765, was appointed prothonotary and deputy register-general, a position he held until 1777. November 7, 1789, he was appointed president judge of the then newly created Delaware county, and died in Philadelphia, January 24, 1790, where he was attending as a delegate the proceedings of the state constitutional convention of that year.
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