American jurist, born in Albany, NY, on the 7th of October 1782. He studied law, and acquired a reputation in New York City as an insurance lawyer. He was delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1821; appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statute law of the state in 1825, and was elected an associate judge of the superior court, becoming chief justice in 1857. He published a number of works, one of which, A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Marine Insurance, has become a standard authority in the United States. He died on Staten Island on the 8th of August 1858.
