Draft:Joseph Cundall (Rhode Island judge)
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Joseph Cundall (1763 – December 24, 1811) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1810 to May 1811.[1]
Of Portsmouth. https://books.google.com/books?id=6y0XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62
Cundall was a deputy for Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1772.[2]
"Joseph Cundall Jr. was deputy in Portsmouth, R. Is. from 1772–84. His first wife, Elizabeth Davol, died there and he had married Mercy Brownell - Oct. 23, 1760 and had the six children by her before coming to Easton in 1785". https://books.google.com/books?id=2-4pAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Joseph+Cundall+Jr.+was+deputy+in+Portsmouth%22+first
Of Portsmouth.[3]
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He was described as a "highly useful and industrious citizen" by the Newport Mercury at the time of his death. His character was described as upright, amiable and benevolent. In listing his death, the Rhode Island, Vital Extracts notes that he was repeatedly a Representative in the General Assembly and was a Justice in Court of Common Pleas for Newport County, besides filling other offices of trust. [4]
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-post-death-of-joseph-cundall/135771103/
https://books.google.com/books?id=DH5UzrY29IkC&pg=PA78
References[edit]
- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ Daughters of the American Colonists, Lineage Book, Volume 5 (1939), p. 79.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 62.
- ^ https://portsmouthhistorynotes.com/2017/11/13/joseph-cundall-lost-in-a-snowstorm/
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