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Martha Boyd / James Ewing

 Trenton, NJ

Ewing Family - JAMES EWING, the youngest son, married MARTHA BOYD, whose father came from the North of Ireland in 1772 and settled in Bridgeton, where he died the year after. James Ewing was a member of the famous "Tea Party" which, on the night of Thursday, December 22, 1774, destroyed a quantity of tea which had been landed at Greenwich, contrary to the Articles of Association of the Continental Congress. He was elected to the Assembly from Cumberland County in 1778, and liked the atmosphere of Trenton so well that he took up his residence there the next year, 1779. He engaged in mercantile business, and for a short time was a partner of Isaac Collins, the printer of the New Jersey Gazette. For several years he was one of the Commissioners of the State Loan Office. He was the author of an ingenious "Columbian Alphabet," an attempt at a reformed system of spelling, which he explained in a pamphlet published at Trenton in 1798. He was Mayor of Trenton, 1797-1803. He died October 23, 1823. His only son, Charles Ewing, born in 1780, was Chief Justice of New Jersey, 1824-1832, dying in office. --Hall's Hist. Pres. Church in Trenton, 363; Genealogy of Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, by Rev. Eli F. Cooley, Trenton, 1883, 64; Elmer's Cumberland County; Elmer's Reminiscences, 326; N. J. Archives, IX., 359; X., 532.
 

Source: New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800

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