Draft:John Burton (Rhode Island judge)
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John Burton (17__ – YEAR) was a justice of the Colonial Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1761 to May 1762.[1]
(apparently a long-serving Justice of the Peace in Providence before this, and refused a second term on the Supreme Court)
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at a meeting September 24, 1774, Moderator Jonathan Randall, C. Lippitt, Zuriel Waterman, Caleb Potter, William Field and John Burton, Jr., were appointed a committee to collect donations for the relief of the poor of Boston, "now suffering in the glorious cause of Liberty."[3]
References
- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 60.
- ^ J. Earl Clauson, Cranston: A Historical Sketch (1904), p. 19.
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