John Cleves Symmes
1742–1814
American legislator, lawyer, and land speculator. Fought in the American War of Independence. Helped draft New Jersey’s state constitution in 1777. Associate judge in the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1777. Migrated to Ohio in 1788.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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