Joseph Galloway
Joseph Galloway had the unique position of being an American-born Loyalist during the time of the Revolutionary War. Born in Maryland, he moved with his father to Pennsylvania where he was given a liberal schooling and eventually began to study law. He was admitted to the bar and began to practice in Philadelphia in the midst of bustling political activity.
In 1756, Galloway became a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, and then became speaker of the house for the Pennsylvania Province in 1766. He was a devoted British supporter, and opposed the idea of independence for the colonies. 
List of Speakers of the House for Pennsylvania, showing Joseph Galloway and Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was a correspondent of Galloway's, with whom he often spoke about matters of politics and independence.
While attending the 1774 Continental Congress, Galloway proposed a plan. Believing the British Empire could offer citizens more liberties than any nation on earth, he called for the creation of a colonial parliament subject to the benevolent Crown. His idea failed to pass by one vote.
Galloway believed that the colonies’ words should be heard, but under the ruling thumb of Britain, whom he believed should keep the right to tax and govern British North America. Congress, becoming more and more focused on independence, decided to strike Galloway’s plan from their journal. So, in 1775, he published it himself and proposed a written constitution that would allow joint legislature for the whole British Empire. When this was also rejected, he declined election to the Continental Congress and left the assembly, while his associate, Benjamin Franklin, moved toward independence for the colonies.
In the winter of 1776, Galloway joined the British in occupying Philadelphia. He was made Superintendent of Police, and was an efficient officer who aggressively organized the city’s loyalists. To his dismay, the British abandoned their attempts to take the city and went to New York. Since that left him in a rather awkward position in Philadelphia, he followed them.
In 1778, Galloway and his daughter exiled themselves to Britain, never again to return to America. He became a leading spokesperson of American Loyalists in London. Meanwhile, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania convicted Galloway of treason and confiscated his estates.
"That seeing a advertisement in the public News Papers of this City wherein the Agents for selling for first Estates gave Notice of the sale of Joseph Galloway, Esqrs, Estate, in which said Advertisement the said Agents gave Notice of all the Claimants, interested, of the said Joseph Galloways Estate and his Creditors to exhibit their Claims and Demands to the Honor. the Justices of the Supreme Court within the Time limitted by Law or they would be forever barred from the recovery thereof."
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