In memory of Nathaniel Breading who departed this life April 22, A.D. 1821. Aged 70 years and one month
Nathaniel Breading was a judge, businessman, teacher, soldier and political leader.
He served as a justice of the peace and president judge in Fayette County and led the development of trade between western Pennsylvania and New Orleans by sending a flat boat downriver each year loaded with flour and whiskey.
He was a lieutenant in Capt. Joseph Wright's company of the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War and served in the commissary at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78.
He served on the Supreme Executive Council for Pennsylvania and as a member of the 1790 convention to write the Pennsylvania Constitution. He also was one of two Fayette County representatives at the state convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
Sources: "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania," by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882; "Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Work," Vol. 1, by Henry Elliot Shepherd; and "Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania," Vol. 1, John Woolf Jordan and James Hadden, eds., 1912.
Nathaniel Breading was a judge, businessman, teacher, soldier and political leader.
He served as a justice of the peace and president judge in Fayette County and led the development of trade between western Pennsylvania and New Orleans by sending a flat boat downriver each year loaded with flour and whiskey.
He was a lieutenant in Capt. Joseph Wright's company of the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War and served in the commissary at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78.
He served on the Supreme Executive Council for Pennsylvania and as a member of the 1790 convention to write the Pennsylvania Constitution. He also was one of two Fayette County representatives at the state convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
Sources: "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania," by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882; "Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Work," Vol. 1, by Henry Elliot Shepherd; and "Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania," Vol. 1, John Woolf Jordan and James Hadden, eds., 1912.
In memory of Nathaniel Breading who departed this life April 22, A.D. 1821. Aged 70 years and one month
Nathaniel Breading was a judge, businessman, teacher, soldier and political leader.
He served as a justice of the peace and president judge in Fayette County and led the development of trade between western Pennsylvania and New Orleans by sending a flat boat downriver each year loaded with flour and whiskey.
He was a lieutenant in Capt. Joseph Wright's company of the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War and served in the commissary at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78.
He served on the Supreme Executive Council for Pennsylvania and as a member of the 1790 convention to write the Pennsylvania Constitution. He also was one of two Fayette County representatives at the state convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
Sources: "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania," by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882; "Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Work," Vol. 1, by Henry Elliot Shepherd; and "Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania," Vol. 1, John Woolf Jordan and James Hadden, eds., 1912.
Nathaniel Breading was a judge, businessman, teacher, soldier and political leader.
He served as a justice of the peace and president judge in Fayette County and led the development of trade between western Pennsylvania and New Orleans by sending a flat boat downriver each year loaded with flour and whiskey.
He was a lieutenant in Capt. Joseph Wright's company of the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War and served in the commissary at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78.
He served on the Supreme Executive Council for Pennsylvania and as a member of the 1790 convention to write the Pennsylvania Constitution. He also was one of two Fayette County representatives at the state convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
Sources: "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania," by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882; "Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Work," Vol. 1, by Henry Elliot Shepherd; and "Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania," Vol. 1, John Woolf Jordan and James Hadden, eds., 1912.
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