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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaGALLOWAY, Joseph
(1731—1803)
GALLOWAY, Joseph, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born at West River, Anne Arundel County, Md., 1731; moved with his father to Pennsylvania in 1740; received a liberal schooling; studied law; was admitted to the bar and began practice in Philadelphia, Pa.; member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1757-1775, and served as speaker 1766-1774; Member of the Continental Congress in 1774; signed the nonimportation agreement, but was opposed to independence of the Colonies and remained loyal to the King; in December 1776 joined the British Army of General Howe in New York; moved to England in 1778; the same year the General Assembly of Pennsylvania convicted him of high treason and confiscated his estates; died in Watford, Herts, England, August 29, 1803.
Bibliography
Ferling, John E. The Loyalist Mind: Joseph Galloway and the American Revolution
. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977.
Balch, Thomas, ed. The Examination of Joseph Galloway, Esq., by a Committee of the House of Commons
. With a new introduction and preface by George Athan Billias. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.
Boyd, Julian P. Anglo-American Union; Joseph Galloway’s Plans to Preserve the British Empire, 1774-1788.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
Ferling, John E. The Loyalist Mind: Joseph Galloway and the American Revolution
. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977.
Galloway, Joseph. Brief Commentaries Upon Such Parts of the Revelation and Other Prophecies as Immediately Refer to the Present Times
. London: Printed, 1802.
———. A Candid Examination of the Mutual Claims of Great-Britain, and the Colonies, With a Plan of Accommodation on Constitutional Principles
. New York: Printed by J. Rivington, 1775.
———. The Claim of the American Loyalists, Reviewed and Maintained Upon Incontrovertible Principles of Law and Justice
. 1788. Reprint, with a new introduction and preface by George Athan Billias. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.
———. Fabricius; or, Letters to the People of Great Britain; on the Absurdity and Mischiefs of Defensive Operations Only in the American War; and on the Causes of the Failure in the Southern Operations
. London: G. Wilkie, 1782.
———. Historical and Political Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion
. 1780. Reprint, with a new introduction by Merrill Jensen. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1972.
———. A Letter from Cicero to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount H—e: Occasioned by His Late Speech in the He of c—ns
. London: Printed for J. Bew, 1781.
———. A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount H—e, on His Naval Conduct in the American War
. London: Printed for G. Wilkie, 1781.
———. Letters from Cicero to Catiline the Second
. With corrections and explanatory notes. London: Printed for J. Bew, 1781.
———. Letters to a Nobleman, on the Conduct of the War in the Middle Colonies
. 1779. Reprint, with a new introduction and preface by George Athan Billias. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.
———. Plain Truth: or, a Letter to the Author of Dispassionate Thoughts on the American War. In which the Principles and Arguments of that Author are Refuted, and the Necessity of Carrying on that War Clearly Demonstrated
. London: Printed for G. Wilkie and R. Faulder, 1780.
———. Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion
. London: Printed by J. Paramore, 1780.
———. A Reply to the Observations of Lieut. Gen. Sir William Howe, on a Pamphlet, Entitled Letters to a Nobleman
. With a new introduction and preface by George Athan Billias. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.
———. Selected Tracts
. Introductory Essay by Ernest Baldwin. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974.
Kuntzleman, Oliver Charles. Joseph Galloway, Loyalist
. Philadelphia: N.p., 1941.
Newcomb, Benjamin H. Franklin and Galloway: A Political Partnership
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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