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Biography
Beauford Montgomery II was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1668. In 1703, he immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1706, he traveled West to the Susquehanna River, where he worked as personal attorney at law to John Harris Sr., executing land and excavation contracts for Harris in the area now known as downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Montgomery worked with Harris to develop trading relations with the Susquehannock Indian Tribe, which they traded furs and tobacco.

His son, John Montgomery was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Pennsylvania from 1782 until 1784.