William Floyd (1734–1821)

Signer of the Declaration of Independence, born in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, NY, on the 17th of December 1734. In 1774 he was a delegate to the Philadelphia Congress, and in 1775 was chosen a delegate to the first Continental Congress. He was a member of every Continental Congress up to 1782, and at the same time, from 1777 to 1783, was state senator. He held the same office from 1784 to 1788. In 1792, 1800 and in 1804 he was a Presidential elector, and in 1801 he sat for Suffolk County in the convention of that year. He died in Weston, Oneida County, NY, on the 4th of August 1821.