Michael Myers (New York)

Michael Myers (February 1, 1753 Auville,^[1] then in Essex Co., now in Union County, New Jersey — February 17, 1814 Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He fought in the Battle of Johnstown in 1781, and was severely wounded.

From 1791 to 1805, he was an associate judge of the Herkimer County Court.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly, from Montgomery County in 1789-90 and 1791; and from Herkimer County in 1792 and 1792-93. He was a member of the New York State Senate (Western D.) from 1793 to 1801.

Notes

1. ^ His birthplace is given as "Auville, NJ" or "Elizabeth, NJ (formerly Auville)", see: Transactions of the Oneida Historical Society at Utica (1889), but there is no source that specifies at what time Elizabeth might have been named Auville or contained a subdivision of this name. The City of Elizabeth was already founded as "Elizabethtown" in the 17th century.

Sources

• A History of Herkimer County by Nathaniel S. Benton (Albany, 1856; pg. 349ff)
• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858; pages 115ff, 144 and 165ff)