Biography
Galusha was born in Norwich, Connecticut, moved with his siblings and his parents, Jacob and Lydia Huntington Galusha, to Salisbury, Connecticut in 1769, then, in 1775, to Shraftsbury, Vermont.
Galusha's father, Jacob, was a farmer and a blacksmith. Though their educations were limited and from the common schools, he and his brothers were leading men in the town and to some extent in the state.
During the American Revolution, his brother, David, was a colonel in the Green Mountain Boys, and Galusha was a captain, fighting in the Battle of Bennington on August 16, 1777.
In 1778,Galusha married Mary Chittenden, daughter of Thomas Chittenden, Governor of the independent Republic of Vermont. The couple had nine children.
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