event:Political[1772]Assemblyman(source: New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800 [database online] - Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000 - Original data: New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1916.)
occupation: New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800 [database online] - Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000 - Original data: New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1916.
occupation: 1759(source: New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800 [database online] - Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000 - Original data: New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1916.) He was a merchant at Salem, and appears to have been a man of superior education and culture. He was one of the Surrogates of West Jersey, was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1759, a Judge in 1752 and again in 1767, and was Clerk of the County of Salem after his father's death. He was an ardent sympathizer with the American cause, which he evinced in a substantial manner, when, at the solicitation of his fellow citizens, he was appointed, 13th of 10th mo. 1774, to solicit funds for the relief of the people of Boston, when that port was closed to commerce by the British. He collected 157 3s. 2d. for the purpose. He was elected to the Assembly in 1772. source: New Jersey Historical Society - Colonial History of the State of New Jerseyp154
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Birth: - New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800 [database online] - Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000 - Original data: New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1916. - New Jersey Archives, First Series, Volume XX - 1880 - 154
Death: New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800 [database online] - Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000 - Original data: New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1916.