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David Augustus Galusha
Interred in Center Cemetery - Shaftsbury, Vermont: Section C / Lot 4 / Grave 78
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These four soldiers were all brothers; Amos, David, Jacob and Jonas Galusha. They were born to Jacob Galusha Sr. and Lydia (Huntington) Galusha. Three other brothers; Jacob Jr., Daniel and Elijah, were Revolutionary War Soldiers in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

On July 4, 1775, in consequence of the taking of Fort Ticonderoga on May 10th of that year, the Continental Congress ordered the Province of New York to raise four Regiments with one of those Regiments being raised of those called the "Green Mountain Boys". Major General Philip Schuyler commanded the Northern Army in which those Regiments were a part. Soon thereafter, General Schuyler directed the Green Mountain Boy Regiment to elect its Officers. They met at the house of Cephus Kents at Dorset on the New Hampshire Grants, July 27, 1775, and elected Seth Warner, Lieutenant Colonel for the Regiment and Samuel Safford Major. Seven Companies were Officered by a Captain commanding, a First Lieutenant, and a Second Lieutenant. David Galusha was elected First Lieutenant of the 4th Company commanded by Captain William Fitch with Philo Hard the Company's Second Lieutenant. In the fall of 1775, David served with his brother Jonas under his command in Canada with Col. Seth Warner's Regiment of Green Mountain Boys.

During the Revolutionary War, David was a 1st Lieutenant in the 4th Company of Shaftsbury, Militia.

State of Vermont Rolls in the Revolutionary War 1775-1883 J.E. Goodrich 1904 pg. 815