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Richard L. Stockton at the Alamo



Richard Lucius Stockton , Born in 1817 New Jersey. After the death of his father in 1823 he moved with his mother Anna Williamson Stockton to Virginia. In 1835 he enlisted in the Texas Volunteer Auxiliary Corps along with David Crocket and other Tennessee Volunteers. He was sent to San Antonio de Bexar , where at the battle of the Alamo he died March 6, 1836. At 18 years of age , he was the youngest to die at the Alamo

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Richard StocktonMorven , New Jersey

Richard Stockton, son of John Stockton and Abigail Phillips, was born October 1 , 1730 at the family estate Morven in New Jersey. Educated at the College of New Jersey , later became Princeton. He joined the bar in 1754. On April 21, 1752 he married Annis Boudinot, by whom he had two sons and four daughters.Beginning in 1768 he served a six year term on the executive council of New Jersey. Then between 1774 and 1776 he sat on the provincial Supreme Court. Elected to Congress in 1776 and was a late signer of the Declaration of Independence. Later imprisoned by the British at Perth Amboy , New Jersey, where the harsh conditions contibuted to his death after his release about 1777.During this time the British pillaged and partially burned his home. In 1781. at the age of fifty he died at Princeton. He was buried at the Stony Brook Quaker Meeting House Cemetery.

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