Jonathan Griffin Tompkins
Jonathan Griffin Tomkins
Presbyterian Pastor Reverend Silas kept a journal in which he visited Jonathan Griffin Tompkins. Here is the biography of Tompkins written in Emily Warren Roebling, Josiah Granville Leach (ed.). The Journal of Reverend Silas: pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Yorktown, New York. J.B. Lippincott Company, 1903. Found on May 5, 2010 on-line at:
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“Judge Jonathan Griffin Tompkins, who was named at birth Joshua Tompkins, for his father, who removed from Westchester Town to Scarsdale, where one of his neighbors, Captain Jonathan Griffin, became interested in the young Joshua, adopted him, and had him baptized Jonathan Griffin Tompkins. Judge Tompkins was born at Scarsdale, 8 June 1736, and died at White Plains, 22 May 1823.
“He made his entrance into public life with Gouveneur Morris, as a member of the Westchester County Committee, called 8 May 1775, to elect delegates for the Provincial Congress.
“He was commissioned adjutant of the Second Regiment, Westchester county militia, under Colonel Thomas Thomas, 19 October, 1775, and recommissioned 20 May 1778.
“He was a member of the state convention which adopted the Declaration of Independence, and the first constitution of the state; of the New York Assembly 1780-82, and that of 1786-87, also for many years first judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Westchester, and one of the Regents for the University of New York from its foundation in 1784 until his resignation in 1807. He was also one of the trustees of the Presbyterian Church at White Plains at its incorporation, 13 February 1788. He married 27 October 1758, Sarah, daughter of Caleb Hyatt, who died 22 April, 1816….”
Source: Emily Warren Roebling, Josiah Granville Leach (ed.). The Journal of Reverend Silas: pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Yorktown, New York. J.B. Lippincott Company, 1903. Found on May 5, 2010 on-line at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=L0kVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=%22Elijah+Tompkins%22+1762&source=bl&ots=w9u6OmhMtd&sig=FaoMvyTJAFnD0XX8ZlEkZsDw2NE&hl=en&ei=U93hS5O0MoP78Ab-59ylDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC8Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Elijah%20Tompkins%22%201762&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=L0kVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=%22Elijah+Tompkins%22+1762&source=bl&ots=w9u6OmhMtd&sig=FaoMvyTJAFnD0XX8ZlEkZsDw2NE&hl=en&ei=U93hS5O0MoP78Ab-59ylDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC8Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Elijah%20Tompkins%22%201762&f=false
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