Samuel Meeker

Career

Samuel’s father, also a ‘Samuel Meeker’, was a captain and commanded a troop of light horse that was recruited in Essex county New Jersey. A young man of action, Samuel left New Jersey early in the 1790s to seek his fame and fortune in Philadelphia.

Achievements

• The Meeker family was already known by this time as a founding family in New Jersey (associate founder William Meeker), providing strong and hardy patriotic males in the fight against the British.