Nicholas Fish

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Nicholas Fish (born August 28, 1758 in New York City , † June 20, 1833 ibid) was an American lawyer , officer and politician ( Federalist Party ). He was married to Elizabeth Stuyvesant, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant , director general of the colony Nieuw Nederland , and father of the future US Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (1808-1893).

Early years

Nicholas Fish was on the age of 16, College of New Jersey received, but it left soon to the law at the law firm of John Morin Scott study. He was later a member of the Sons of Liberty .

American War of Independence

After the outbreak of the War of Independence (1775–1783) he joined the Continental Army . In the spring of 1776 he was appointed aide-de-camp of General Scott and on June 21 of the same year a major in his brigade . On November 21, he was given command of the 2nd  regiment from New York. At the end of the war he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel . During this time he took part in the Battle of Saratoga , was division inspector under Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben in 1778 and then commanded a unit of light infantry at the Battle of Monmouth . Then in 1779 he took part in John Sullivan's campaign against the Indians . He then fought at the Battle of Yorktown , where he was on the staff of Lafayette .

Another résumé

Fish was made Adjutant General of New York in 1786 , a post he held for many years. He then became supervisor of the Federal Treasury in New York City in 1794 . Fish twice ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US House of Representatives . He was defeated first by Samuel L. Mitchill in 1804 and then by Gurdon S. Mumford in 1806 . He then ran twice for the office of lieutenant governor of New York without success . He was first defeated in 1810 by then incumbent John Broome , and after his death in the 1811 by -election by DeWitt Clinton , then Mayor of New York City. During the subsequent British-American War (1812-1814) he was a member of the City Committee of Defense . He was also a member of the New York City Council between 1806 and 1817.

He was buried in the cemetery of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in New York City.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamilton Fish III .: Hamilton Fish: Memoir of an American Patriot . 1991, pp. 7-9.
  2. ^ FP Harper: Manual of the corporation of the city of New York: ("Valentine's manuals") 1841 to 1870, consisting of two thousand three hundred and twenty-five references . 1849, pp. 176-179, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
personal data
SURNAME Fish, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1833
Place of death New York City