Hendrick Fisher

Hendrick Fisher

Hendrick Fisher (1697-1778) represented Somerset County in the New Jersey Colonial Assembly, was one of three delegates representing New Jersey at the First Colonial Congress ("The Stamp Act Congress") in New York in 1765, was elected to New Jersey's Committee of Correspondence, served as a member of the Committee of Safety, was President of the Colonial Assembly, was the first President of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey in 1775, was labeled an arch traitor and "Enemy of the Crown", and a founder and first President of the board of trustees of Queen's College (now Rutgers University).

His homestead and grave are currently located on the grounds of the Ukrainian Cultural Center on Easton Avenue west of Davidson Avenue in the Somerset section of Franklin Township. [ [http://www.boundbrook.com/Content/360/6.aspx Hendrick Fisher Descendent To Read Declaration of Independence in Bound Brook] , Bound Brook, New Jersey. Accessed August 21, 2008.]

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