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Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant

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JONATHAN DICKINSON SERGEANT



Continental Congress, House of Representatives, Provincial Congress, State Attorney General




       __Jonathan Sergeant1
      |
JONATHAN DICKINSON SERGEANT
      |
      |     __JONATHAN DICKINSON1
      |    |
      |__Abigail Dickinson1
	   |
	   |          __Cornelis Melyn1
	   |         |
	   |     __Isaac Melyn1
	   |    |    |
	   |    |    |__Janneken Adriaens1
	   |    |
	   |__Joanna Melyn1
		|
		|     __William Loveridge1
		|    |
		|__Temperance Loveridge1
		     |
		     |__Temperance (__)1



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Biography of JONATHAN DICKINSON SERGEANT

 
SERGEANT, Jonathan Dickinson, (father of John Sergeant), a Delegate from New Jersey; born in Newark, N.J., in 1746; moved with his parents to Princeton, N.J., in 1758; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from Princeton College in 1762 and from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1763; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1767 and commenced practice in Princeton, N.J.; surrogate of Somerset County, N.J., in 1769; secretary of the State provincial convention in 1774; member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, 1775 and 1776; secretary from May 24 to May 30, 1775, treasurer from August 17 to October 3, 1775, and member of the committee of safety from August 17 to October 3, 1775; appointed as a member of the committee that drafted the first constitution of New Jersey in 1776; Member of the Continental Congress from February 14 to June 22, 1776, when he resigned; again elected a Member of the Continental Congress on November 30, 1776, and served until his resignation on September 6, 1777, to accept the office of attorney general of Pennsylvania; moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1777; member of the council of safety of Pennsylvania in 1777; attorney general of Pennsylvania 1777-1780; counsel for the State in the Wyoming land controversy with Connecticut in 1782; died in Philadelphia, Pa., October 8, 1793; interment in the Presbyterian Churchyard, then located at Fourth and Pine Streets; reinterment in Laurel Hill Cemetery in 1878.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Burton, Paul Gibson, "Cornelis Melyn, Patroon of Staten Island and Some
       of His Descendants," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
       68 (1937):  3-17, 132-146, 217-231, 357-365.

 

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