Frederick Frelinghuysen ( general ) Frederick Frelinghuysen ( April 13 , 1753April 13 , 1804 ) was an American lawyer , soldier , and senator from New Jersey . A graduate of the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) , Frederick went on to become an officer during the American Revolutionary War . In addition , he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress . He was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1793 until 1796 , and served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey in 1801 . Birth and education . He was born near Somerville in the Province of New Jersey to John Frelinghuysen ( 1727 – 1754 ) of Flatbush , Brooklyn and Dinah Van Berg ( 1725 – 1807 ) of Amsterdam . His father , John , was the son of the immigrant minister Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen , the progenitor of the Frelinghuysen family in New Jersey . He graduated from the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) in 1770 , then he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1774 and practiced law in Somerset County , New Jersey . Family life . Frederick married Gertrude Schenck ( 1753 – 1794 ) , the daughter of Magdalen and Henry Schenck . They had the following children : Catharine Frelinghuysen ( c . 1774 – ? ) ; General John Frelinghuysen ( 1776 – 1833 ) , Maria Frelinghuysen ( 1778 – ? ) , lawyer and New Jersey politician ; Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ) ; and Frederick Frelinghuysen ( 1788 – 1820 ) . After Gertrude died in 1794 , Frederick Sr . married Ann Yard ( 1764 – 1839 ) . Among his other descendants are Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1817 – 1885 ) , U . S . Senator and Secretary of State ; Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen ( 1869 – 1948 ) US Senator from New Jersey ; Peter Frelinghuysen , Jr . ( 1916 – 2011 ) New Jersey Congressman ; and Rodney Frelinghuysen ( born 1946 ) New Jersey Congressman . American Revolution . With the coming of the American Revolution , he became a member of the provincial congress of New Jersey from 1775 to 1776 . In the War of Independence he served in the New Jersey militia as an artillery captain , seeing action at Trenton and Monmouth . In 1779 he served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress . He served as a clerk to the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County , New Jersey from 1781 to 1789 . He also served in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1784 and again from 1800 to 1804 . He was a member of the New Jersey convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1787 . He was a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council ( now the New Jersey Senate ) representing Somerset County from 1790 to 1792 . President George Washington appointed him as brigadier general in the United States Army for the 1790 campaign against the western Indians . Frelinghuysen was elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4 , 1793 to November 12 , 1796 , when he resigned . He was commissioned major general in the New Jersey militia in 1794 , during the Whiskey Rebellion . Death . Frederick died in Millstone , New Jersey on April 13 , 1804 , his 51st birthday , and was buried at the Weston Burying Ground on the border of Manville , New Jersey and Bound Brook , New Jersey . His tombstone reads as follows : Entombed beneath this stone lies the remains of Frederick Frelinghuysen , Esq . Major General of the military forces and representative in the General Assembly of this , his native state . Endowed by nature with superior talents , he was beloved by his country . From his youth he was entrusted with the most important concerns until his death . He never disappointed her hopes . In the bar he was eloquent and in the Senate he was wise , in the field he was brave . Candid , generous and just , he was ardent in his friendships , constant to his friends . The patron and protector of his honorable merit . He gave his hand to the young , his counsel to the middle aged , his support to him that was feeble in years . To perpetuate his memory , his children have raised this monument , a frail memorial of their veneration to his virtues and of their grief and their loss of so excellent a father . He died on the 13th of April 1804 , aged 51 years .