Background
Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson was born in 1746 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jonathan and Abigail (Dickinson) Sergeant.
Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson was born in 1746 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jonathan and Abigail (Dickinson) Sergeant.
Graduated from College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1762, University of Pennsylvania, 1763.
At least 11 children including John, Thomas. Admitted to the bar, 1767. Surrogate Somerset County (New Jersey), 1769.
Member Sons of Liberty.
Active in Stamp Acting controversy. Secretary 1st, 2d New Jersey provincial congresses, 1774, 75, member, 1776.
Member local committees of correspondence, 1774, 75. Treasurer Province of New Jersey, 1775.
Delegate Continental Congress from New Jersey, February-June 1776, November 30, 1776-1777.
Moved to Philadelphia, 1776. Attorney general Pennsylvania, 1777-1780. Known for extra-legal methods in prosecution of Loyalists.
Identified with McKean-Bryan “Constitutionalists,” 1777.
Member Council of Safety, 1777. Represented Pennsylvania in Connecticut-Pennsylvania dispute arbitrated at Trenton, New Jersey, 1782.
Counsel for Pennsylvania in Wyoming land controversy. Defended Anti-Federalist editor Eleazar Oswald, 1788.
Member Sons of Liberty. Member local committees of correspondence, 1774, 75. Member Council of Safety, 1777.
Married Margaret Spencer, March 14, 1775. Married second, Elizabeth Rittenhouse, December 20, 1788.