Joshua Sands

Joshua Sands (born October 12, 1757 in Cow Neck , Queens , Province of New York , † September 13, 1835 in Brooklyn , New York ) was a British- American officer, trader and politician.

Career

Joshua Sands received a limited education. When the war of independence broke out, he enlisted in the army. He held the rank of captain . After the war he pursued a political career. He had a seat in the New York Senate from 1792 to 1799 . During this time he was a member of a committee that was allowed to decide on several formal errors in the gubernatorial election of 1792 . The decision was made in favor of George Clinton . He was also a member of the Council of Appointments in 1796 . On April 26, 1797, US President John Adams appointed him tax collector for the New York harbor . He held this post until July 9, 1801, when US President Thomas Jefferson dismissed him. He was then elected to the 8th US Congress as a federalist . He served in the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1805. Sands chose not to run for re-election. He then presided over the Brooklyn Board of Trustees in 1824. Then he was elected to the 19th US Congress for the National Republican Party . He worked there from March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1827.

Joshua Sands died in Brooklyn in 1835, was first buried in St. Paul's Church Cemetery in Eastchester (New York), but then reburied in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn in 1852 .

Honors

The St. Ann's Church , the first Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, is named after him.

literature

Naval Officers, Their Heredity and Development by Charles Benedict Davenport, READ BOOKS, 2008, ISBN 9781408689097 , pages 193ff
The Merchants' National Bank of the City of New York by Philip Gengembre Hubert, Ayer Publishing, 1980, ISBN 9780405136559 , page 80
The New York Civil List by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 100, 114ff and 145

Web links

Joshua Sands in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

↑ The old merchants of New York city by Joseph Alfred Scoville, Carleton, 1865, p. 303
^ " Brooklyn by name: how the neighborhoods, streets, parks, bridges, and more got their names " by Leonard Benardo, Jennifer Weiss, NYU Press, 2006, ISBN 9780814799468 , page 51

personal data
SURNAME	Sands, Joshua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British-American officer, trader and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cow Neck , Queens , New York Province
DATE OF DEATH	September 13, 1835
Place of death	Brooklyn , New York

[1] The old merchants of New York city by Joseph Alfred Scoville, Carleton, 1865, p. 303

[2] " Brooklyn by name: how the neighborhoods, streets, parks, bridges, and more got their names " by Leonard Benardo, Jennifer Weiss, NYU Press, 2006, ISBN 9780814799468 , page 51