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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyRichard SMITH
(1735-1803)
SMITH, Richard, a Delegate
from New Jersey; born in Burlington, N.J., March 22, 1735; educated
under private teachers and in Friends’ schools; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1762 and practiced in Philadelphia, Pa.,
and later in Burlington, N.J.; commissioned county clerk of
Burlington on December 7, 1762; Member of the Continental Congress
from July 23, 1774, to June 12, 1776, when he resigned; member of
the state council in 1776; elected treasurer of New Jersey and
served from 1776 to February 15, 1777, when he resigned; moved to
Laurens, N.Y., in 1790 and thence to Philadelphia in 1799; died
near Natchez, Miss., September 17, 1803; interment in Natchez
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Smith, Richard. A Tour of the Hudson, the Mohawk, the
Susquehanna, and the Delaware in 1769; Being the Journal of Richard
Smith of Burlington, New Jersey. Edited, with a short history
of pioneer settlements. 1964. Reprint, Fleischmanns, N.Y.: Purple
Mountain Press, 1989.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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