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Jacob Radcliff was born on April 20, 1764 in Rhinebeck, New York, the eldest of four sons of William Radcliff and his wife, Sarah Kip. The father was a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary War.
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Title: Laws of the State of New-York. Author: James Kent, Jacob Radcliff, Bogert Cornelius, Ebenezer Baldwin, John Bayly, James Fuller, Henry Green, Frederick Augustus Tallmadge, Glen Cuyler Publisher: Gale, Making of Modern Law Description: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 contains a virtual goldmine of information for researchers of American legal history --- an archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Yale Law Library DocumentID: LPSY0114602 SecondaryDocType: State Codes SourceBibCitation: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 PublicationPlace: United States ImprintFull: Albany: Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, 1802 ImprintYear: 1802 Collation: 2 v. ; 22 cm
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Jacob Radcliff was born on April 20, 1764 in Rhinebeck, New York, the eldest of four sons of William Radcliff and his wife, Sarah Kip. The father was a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary War.
Jacob attended the College of New Jersey at Princeton, was a member of the Cliosophic Society (1781), and graduated September 24, 1783, debating with Joseph Venable before an audience which included George Washington, President Boudinot of the Continental Congress, James Madison, and the French Minister, the question: "Can any measure that is morally evil be politically good?" He studied law with Egbert Benson, attorney-general of New York.
He was admitted to the bar in 1786, and engaged in practice, first in Poughkeepsie and later in New York City. Although he possessed little inclination for politics or the bench, he served two terms in the New York Assembly (1794 - 95), was for two years assistant attorney-general (1796 - 98), and for six years (1798 - 1804) a justice of the supreme court of New York.
To the latter office Gov. John Jay had appointed him along with James Kent to succeed J. S. Hobart and Robert Yates. Pursuant to an act of the legislature in 1801, Kent and Radcliff codified the laws of the state by omitting the laws or parts of laws abrogated. Their revision was standard until 1813.
On April 20, 1804, Radcliff, Anthony Dey, and Richard Varick obtained a lease on Paulus Hook from the Van Vorst family for the annual sum of $6, 000 and became the founders of Jersey City. Planning to lay out a city in accordance with a map completed by Joseph F. Mangin, they secured by act of the legislature the incorporation of the "Associates of the Jersey Company, " November 10, 1804, to which part of Paulus Hook was conveyed on Feburary 1, 1805.
Radcliff was a member of the New York Committee of Correspondence of the Federalist party in 1808, when Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was nominated for president, and again in 1812.
When in 1809 the Federalists carried New York state, the Council of Appointment chose Radcliff as mayor of New York City (1810) to succeed DeWitt Clinton. As mayor, he was automatically a commissioner to decide the question of land for the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Removed from office in 1811 by a combination of Clinton and Livingston factions, he was again chosen in 1815. During his term he granted certificates of freedom to many negroes who appeared before him and exhibited proof of their free status. He was a delegate from New York City to the state constitutional convention of 1821 which abolished the councils of appointment and revision and liberalized the suffrage.
He was a trustee of Columbia College, 1805-17.
He died in Troy, New York.
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He married Juliana, daughter of the Rev. Cotton Mather Smith of Sharon, Connecticut, and they had two daughters.