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GOVERNOR BLOOMFIELD OF NEW JERSEY APPOINTS A JUDGE

 

JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD (1753-1823). Bloomfield was Governor of New Jersey and Congressman from New Jersey.

 

DS. 1pg. November 23, 1808. Trenton, New Jersey. A partially-printed document signed Joseph Bloomfield as Governor of New Jersey and engrossed in another hand. Bloomfield appointed a judge in Burlington County. “To Ebenezer Tucker Esquire GREETING: THE COUNCIL and ASSEMBLY, reposing special trust and confidence in your integrity prudence and ability, have at a JOINT-MEETING, appointed you the said Ebenezer Tucker to be one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Burlington. You are therefore by these presents commissioned one of the Judges of the said Inferior Court of Common Pleas, to be holden in and for the said country of Burlington TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, with all powers and jurisdictions, cognizable in the said Court, and before a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas to severally and jointly in the said county, with other the Judges of the said state; together with the fees allowed for the exercise of the several duties thereof, agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of the said state; In Testimony Whereof the Great Seal of the said state is hereunto affixed: Witness Joseph Bloomfield Governor of the state of New Jersey, at Trenton, the twenty third day of November in the year of our LORD eighteen hundred and eight. Joseph Bloomfield”. The document was also signed James Linn as New Jersey Secretary of State and sealed with the State Seal. A handwritten docket on the verso, dated December 13, 1808 and signed by another man, records that Tucker assumed the judgeship he was appointed to. It is in good condition with repairs to the vertical fold on the verso.