Crane, Stephen (1709-1780) List of court costs, Essex County, New Jersey
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02471.08 Author/Creator: Crane, Stephen (1709-1780) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 1767 Pagination: 1 p. + docket Order a Copy
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CRANE, Stephen, (1709-1780), Delegate from New Jersey; sheriff of Essex County; was chosen by the Elizabethtown Associates to go to England and lay a petition before the King in 1743; member of the town committee in 1750; judge of the court of common pleas during the agitation over the stamp act; member of the State general assembly 1766-1773 and served as speaker in 1771; mayor of Elizabethtown 1772-1774; was appointed chairman of the county committee of New Brunswick in 1774; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1776; chairman of the town committee in 1776; member of the State council in 1776, 1777, and 1779. (excerpted from bioguide.congress.gov)
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