Late Life and Family
He married Susan Williamson and had two daughters but their marriage date is unknown.
After resuming his political career in New Jersey, he died in 1824 in his hometown and was interred in an unmarked grave now under the present St. John's Episcopal Church in Elizabeth which replaced the original church in 1860.
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