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- 1 NAME Thomas Ryerson /Reading/
[Joe Nunn's Ancestors RK.FTW]
The Provincial Congress appointed him, Feb. 9, 1776, Captain of the sixth company, third New Jersey regiment, First Establishment, and he was in service with hiscommand in northern New York and Canada until his regiment was discharged, March 23, 1777. By act of the Legislature, June 22, 1778, he was appointed one of the agents of the State for procuring provisions for the use of the army, ad other supplied for carrying on the war. He was commissioned a justice of the peace for Hunterdon County, Dec. 18, 1782; Sept. 14, 1788; Oct. 25, 1793; and Nov. 1, 1798; and was appointed judge of the common pleas for said county nov. 26, 1794 and Oct. 30, 1799. Each of the said appointments was for 5 years. He was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church in Flemington, was a member of the board of trustees, and on July 6. 1797, was ordained an ilder of the church, with power to "conduct divine worship and read a sermon when the pastor was absent." He occupied the homestead farm of four hundred acres, near Flemington Junction, devised by his father to his executors in trust for the use of Thomas and his wife for life, with remainder to his two sons, Joseph and Thomas, in fee simple. He probably engaged in the iron industry with his cousins, the Ryersons, and the vicissitudes of the Revolutionary War brought about his ruin. He m. Rebecca Ellis, dau. of Jonathan Ellis, of Waterford, Gloucester County; he d. Dec. 14, 1814, in Amwell tounship. _The Reading Family, by J. Granville Leach, Philadelphia, 1898, pp. 52, 125; Stryker's Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution; First Century of Hunterdon County. (Excerpted from William Nelson's book)
A different set of dates from the internet: b. Sept 24, 1734 D. December 15, 1814 Some dates say b. 1724.
Thomas Ryerson Reading seems to be his full name.
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