Source: 'History of the Brodhead Family' by Luke Brodhead

"Garret Brodhead was also an officer of the Revolutionary army. Richard Brodhead and John Brodhead were his sons.

Source: 'Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of The Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania' Published by The Lewis Publishing Company; 1905 (page 230)

"His brother, Garrett Brodhead, the great-grandfather of Hon. Charles Brodhead, was also an officer in the Revolutionary war. He was born January 21, 1733, and became a lieutenant, doing frontier service during the struggle for national independence. He was married March 15, 1759, to Jane Davis, and their children were: John, born March 3, 1766; Daniel, Richard, George, Elizabeth, born in 1775; Rachel, and Samuel, born in 1779.

Source: Biographical Sketch and Ancestry of Robert Packer Brodhead

Lieutenant Garret BRODHEAD, sixth child of Captain Daniel and Hester (WYNGART) BRODHEAD, was born in Marbletown, Ulster county, New York, January 31, 1733, died at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, during the year 1804. He enlisted in the New York Colonal troops as sergeant, April 4, 1758, and was promoted lieutenant of the Second Regiment, Ulster county troops, in 1760. He located in Smithfield township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, between the years 1770-72, as he was taxed there in the later year, thus: "Garrett Brodhead £70 s10 - and in 1785 £5 s4 d8 for six hundred acres land, five horses, seven cattle." He was in service on the frontier during the Revolution and held a lieutenant's commission. Lieutenant Garret Brodhead married, March 15, 1759, Jane DAVIS. Children: John, Daniel, Richard, George, Elizabeth (Mrs. Dr. Francis Joseph SMITH), Rachel (Mrs. David DILLS), Samuel, married Hannah SHOEMAKER.