from Montgomery County
Michael Myers (February 1,1753 –February 17,1814) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. [1]
Myers was born on February 1,1753,in Elizabethtown,Province of New Jersey (now Elizabeth,New Jersey). A veteran of the American Revolutionary War,Myers fought in the Battle of Johnstown in 1781,and was severely wounded.
From 1791 to 1805,he was an associate judge of the Herkimer County Court.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly,from Montgomery County in 1789–90 and 1791;and from Herkimer County in 1792 and 1792–93. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1793 to 1801. [2] [3]
Myers had two children. He died on February 17,1814,in Herkimer,New York. [4]
Elizabeth is a city in and the county seat of Union County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census,the city retained its ranking as the state's fourth-most-populous city behind neighboring Newark,Jersey City,and Paterson,with a population of 137,298,an increase of 12,329 (+9.9%) from the 2010 census count of 124,969,which in turn reflected an increase of 4,401 (3.7%) from the 120,568 counted in the 2000 census.
Elizabethtown,Elizabeth Town,or similar may refer to:
Herkimer is a village on the north side of the Mohawk River and the county seat of Herkimer County,New York,United States,about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Utica. As of the 2020 Census,it had a population of 7,234,and a predicted population of 7,283 on July 1,2022. It was part of the Burnetsfield Patent and the first colonial settlement this far west in the Mohawk Valley.
Jonathan Dayton was an American Founding Father and politician from New Jersey. At 26,he was the youngest person to sign the Constitution of the United States. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1791 and later served from 1795 to 1799 as its third Speaker. He left the House in 1799 after being elected to the U.S. Senate,where he served one term. Dayton was arrested in 1807 for alleged treason in connection with Aaron Burr's conspiracy to establish an independent country in the Southwestern United States and parts of Mexico. He was exonerated by a grand jury,but his national political career never recovered.
Morgan Lewis was an American lawyer,politician,and military commander. The second son of Francis Lewis,a signer of the Declaration of Independence,Lewis fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He served in the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate (1811–1814) and was New York State Attorney General (1791–1801) and the third governor of New York (1804–1807).
Peter Van Brugh Livingston was a Patriot during the American Revolution who was a wealthy merchant and who served as the 1st New York State Treasurer from 1776 to 1778.
David Gelston was an American merchant and politician.
Elias Dayton was an American merchant and military officer who served as captain and colonel of the local militia and in 1783 rose to become a brigadier general during the American Revolutionary War. Afterward,he became the Mayor of Elizabethtown,New Jersey and served in the New Jersey General Assembly. He was the father of U.S. Constitution signer Jonathan Dayton.
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer,from the prominent Van Rensselaer family,was the lieutenant governor of New York and a member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives,representing New York in the 1st United States Congress.
Aaron Ogden was an American soldier,lawyer,United States Senator and the fifth governor of New Jersey. Ogden is perhaps best known today as the complainant in Gibbons v. Ogden which destroyed the monopoly power of steamboats on the Hudson River in 1824.
John Rutherfurd was an American politician and land surveyor. He represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1791 to 1798.
The Archdiocese of Newark is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction,or archdiocese,of the Catholic Church in northeastern New Jersey in the United States.
Silas Halsey was a United States representative from New York.
The Schuyler family was a prominent Dutch family in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries,whose descendants played a critical role in the formation of the United States,in leading government and business in North America and served as leaders in business,military,politics,and society. The other two most influential New York dynasties of the 18th and 19th centuries were the Livingston family and the Clinton family.
Michael Hoffman was an American lawyer and politician. He was U.S. Representative from New York from 1825 to 1833
Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic church on Broad and Lawrence Streets in Bridgeton,Cumberland County,New Jersey,United States. It was built in 1792 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The church and cemetery are also listed on both the New Jersey Register
The 15th New York State Legislature,consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly,met from January 5 to April 12,1792,during the fifteenth year of George Clinton's governorship,in New York City.
Louis Hasbrouck was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Jedediah Sanger was the founder of the town of New Hartford,New York,United States. He was a native of Sherborn,Massachusetts,and the ninth child of Richard and Deborah Sanger,a prominent colonial New England family. During the Revolutionary War he attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant having fought in the Battles of Lexington and Concord,the Battle of Bunker Hill,the Siege of Boston (1776),and during the New York Campaign.