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Excerpt from Members of the New Jersey Assembly, 1754: Biographical Sketches
J., a few miles south of the present Lebanon station on the Central railroad, a large and elegant residence, known as the Stevens mansion, which he made his home for nearly all the rest of his days. He was one of the commissioners to adjust the northern bound ary in 1774. In June, 1776, he resigned his seat in the Council, and was chosen to represent Hunterdon county in the Provincial Congress, which met in August, 1776.
He was unanimously elected vice-president of the Council, and was continued in that position for six years, when he was sent to the Continental Congress, November 6, 1782.
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