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| Name | Charles Ewing |
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Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey , United States |
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June 08, 1780
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| Died | August 05, 1832
(52 years)
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| Info | Thomas Ewing immigrated to the United States from Londonderry, Ireland in 1718. He settled in the town of Greenwich, New Jersey (now in Cumberland County), where he married Mary Maskell. Their youngest son, James Ewing (I), became an active participant in the Revolutionary War, joining the New Jersey Militia and taking part in the burning of British tea in Greenwich in 1774. He was elected as a member of the state Legislature and moved to Trenton in 1779. He became mayor of Trenton from 1797-1803 and helped found the Trenton Library and Academy. He died on October 23, 1823.
James Ewing (I) married Martha Boyd, also a native of Ireland, and their only son, Charles Ewing, was born June 8, 1780 in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Charles graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1798 and then moved to Trenton to study law with Samuel Leake, a local lawyer. He was licensed as an attorney in November 1802, as a counselor in 1805, and called to the degree of sergeant-at-law in 1812. Charles served in many capacities throughout his career – he was the recorder for Trenton, the Federalist candidate for the State Legislature in 1815, a commissioner to revise the laws of New Jersey in 1819, and the director of the Trenton Banking Company in 1821 and 1823-1824. Charles Ewing was appointed chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1824 and was reelected to that post shortly before his death from cholera in 1832.
Charles Ewing married Eleanor Graeme Armstrong and they had two daughters and two sons. Their son, James Ewing (II), graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1823 and was admitted to the bar in 1826. He was a practicing lawyer throughout his lifetime and also served as the director of the Trenton Banking Company from 1833-1857. James Ewing never married and died in 1869.
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