He died in Edenton, North Carolina in 1798, having fled there to avoid being arrested for debt.
He died in Edenton, North Carolina in 1798, having fled there to avoid being arrested for debt. After arriving in America in 1766, he got a job as a Latin tutor at the College of Philadelphia, after which he moved to Carlisle, where he led a Committee of Correspondence and published his Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament. FTP, identify this signer of the Declaration of Independence, who served on the Supreme Court for nine years and wrote the decision in Chisholm vs. Georgia, but who is better known for having joined with Gouverneur Morris to write the final draft of the Constitution.
He died in Edenton, North Carolina in 1798, having fled there to avoid being arrested for debt.
James {Wilson}