DUANE, James, a Delegate from New York;
born in New York City February 6, 1733; completed preparatory studies; studied
law; was admitted to the bar August 3, 1754; clerk of the chancery court in
1762; attorney general of New York in 1767; boundary commissioner in 1768 and
1784; State Indian commissioner in 1774; delegate to the provincial convention
in 1775; member of the Revolutionary Committee of One Hundred in 1775; Member of
the Continental Congress 1774-1783; member of the Provincial Congress in 1776
and 1777; served in the State senate 1782-1785 and 1788-1790; chosen a member of
the Annapolis Commercial Convention in 1786, but did not attend; first mayor of
New York City 1784-1789; delegate to the State convention which ratified the
Federal Constitution in 1788; United States district judge for the district of
New York 1789-1794; believed to have died in either New York City or in
Duanesburg, Schenectady County, N.Y., February 1, 1797; interment under Christ
Church in Duanesburg.- -Biographical
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