Person:John Stevens (113)

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John Stevens
b.Abt 1715 New York City, New York, United States
d.10 May 1792 New Jersey, United States
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  1. John StevensAbt 1715 - 1792
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  1. Mary Stevens
  2. Col. John Stevens1749 - 1838
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Name John Stevens
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1715 New York City, New York, United States
Marriage to Elizabeth Alexander
Death[1][2] 10 May 1792 New Jersey, United States
Reference Number Q1701825 (Wikidata)
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  • Nov 1774 - one of the joint commissioners for defining the boundary line between NY and NJ
  • 1776-1782 - vice-president of the council of NJ
  • presided at joint meetings of both branches of the NJ legislature
  • Nov 1783 - 18 Dec 1787 - elected to Continental Congress
  • presided over state convention that ratified US Constitution
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 John Stevens (New Jersey), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

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    John Stevens Jr. (c. 1715 – May 10, 1792) was a prominent colonial American landowner, merchant, and politician.

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  2. ↑ White, James Terry. The National cyclopædia of American biography: being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state. (New York: J.T. White, 1893 - )
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