Smyth, John, 1722-1786

Loyalist lawyer and treasurer of East Jersey, and later, New York City; register to the Council of Proprietors of East Jersey; clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex County; examiner in Chancery; taken prisoner early in Revolutionary War by order of General Heard; released on parole; fled to New York when British evacuated New Jersey. Born in New Jersey in 1722, died in London, 1786.

From the description of Accounts, 1778-1783. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58771525