1p., docketed on verso. Folio. Some loss to right margin, repaired, affecting a few words of text; small loss to left margin, repaired, not affecting text. Bottom of sheet trimmed, affecting post script. Washed and pressed; silked on verso. Fair. In a half morocco box.

Item #352125

Letter of complaint written by Thomas Galbraith to General Edward Hand, stationed at Fort Pitt, decrying the damage to his property caused by the militia stationed at Palmers Fort.  He writes, "My farm at Squirrel Hill hath been this Fall their place of calling at when out on scout or on their necessary occasions to their farms.  My fencing is burnt & the fields laid open, the house pillaged of the farming utensils, the grain of which there was a large quantity left a prey to cattle.  When I heard militia being stationed on the frontiers by your approbation, I considered my property as safe.  Unless I have satisfaction made, in a regular way, it will make no odds to me whether the enemy destroys my property or the militia takes it by violence or robbery at a time when I am rendering my personal services to my county."  The services to which Galbraith refers concerned property destruction of his own.  Galbraith was appointed an Agent of Forfeited Estates in October 1777, and in that capacity he confiscated the properties of Loyalists in Westmoreland County.