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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJohn STEVENS
(1715-1792)
STEVENS, John, a Delegate
from New Jersey; born in Perth Amboy, N.J., in 1715; merchant and
shipowner; engaged in trading with the West Indies and Madeira;
large landowner and mine owner in Hunterdon, Union, and Somerset
Counties; member of the general colonial assembly in 1751; was a
member of the defense committee to protect New York and New Jersey
against Indian depredations; commissioner to the Indians in 1758;
paymaster of Colonel Schuyler’s regiment, the “Old
Blues,” 1756-1760; as a resident of New York City in 1765 was
one of the committee of four who prevented the issue of stamps; in
1774 was appointed a commissioner to define the boundary line
between New York and New Jersey; vice president of the council of
New Jersey 1770-1782; served as president of the council of East
Jersey proprietors in 1783; Member of the Continental Congress in
1784; presided over the state ratification convention December 18,
1787; died in Hoboken, Hudson County, N.J., May 10, 1792; interment
in the Frame Meeting House Cemetery, Hunterdon County, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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