Draft:Joseph Cundall (Rhode Island judge)
 | This draft is part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices.
|
Joseph Cundall (1763 – December 24, 1811) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1810 to May 1811.[1]
Of Portsmouth. [2]
Cundall was a deputy for Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1772.[3]
"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". [4]
Of Portsmouth.[5]
?
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. [6]
References
[edit]- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ "The Narragansett Historical Register: A Magazine Devoted to the Antiquities, Genealogy and Historical Matter Illustrating the History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations". 1889.
- ^ Daughters of the American Colonists, Lineage Book, Volume 5 (1939), p. 79.
- ^ Welling, Jane Betsey (1964). "They Were Here Too: Genealogies of the Owners of the Inn Easton Corners and Related Families of Southern Washington County and Environs, State of New York".
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 62.
- ^ "Joseph Cundall: Lost in a Snowstorm". November 13, 2017.
- ^ "Death of Joseph Cundall". The Evening Post. January 11, 1812. p. 3.
- ^ Hazard, Thomas Robinson (1879). "Recollections of Olden Times: Rowland Robinson of Narragansett and His Unfortunate Daughter : With Genealogies of the Robinson, Hazard, and Sweet Families of Rhode Island".
Category:Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
 | This biography of a state judge in Rhode Island is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- This open draft remains in progress as of August 8, 2024.