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Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746 – October 8, 1793) was an American politician who served as a member of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey from 1774 to 1776. He was a member of the committee that drafted the Constitution of New Jersey.
The following year he was made secretary of the Continental Congress. In early and late 1776 he served briefly in the Continental Congress, resigning for part of the year to become a member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress and to lead the committee framing a constitution for the new state.
When Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant was born in 1746, in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States, his father, Jonathan Sargeant, was 34 and his mother, Abigail Dickinson, was 35. He married Margaret Spencer in 1775. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters.
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- Margaret Spencer, Elizabeth Rittenhause
1746-1793. Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. SERGEANT, Jonathan Dickinson, (father of John Sergeant), a Delegate from New Jersey; born in Newark, N.J., in 1746; moved with his parents to Princeton, N.J.
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746–1793), a leading New Jersey patriot, lawyer, and politician resident in Princeton, was at this time a member of the congress, but he resigned in June to work on a new state constitution.
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- October 8, 1793
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant was an attorney and politician during the Revolutionary era. He was the son of Jonathan Sergeant and Abigail Dickinson. He was the grandson of Princeton University's first president Jonathan Dickinson, and he graduated from Princeton in 1762.
Biographical information of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant who was born in 1746, at Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, and lived in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey prior to the American Revolution, and also became a resident of Pennsylvania in 1777. He died 8 October 1793.
