Alexander Wilcocks (17411801) was born in

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. He was a lawyer and a supporter the

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. After his 1761 graduation from the College of Philadelphia (now the

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) he became a lawyer. He married Mary, the daughter of Pennsylvania Chief Justice

Benjamin Chew Benjamin Chew (November 19, 1722 – January 20, 1810) was a fifth-generation American, a Quaker-born legal scholar, a prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer, slaveowner, head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System under both Colony and Com ...

. Wilcocks supported the American Revolution as a member of Philadelphia's committee of safety. After the Revolution, he served as recorder of Philadelphia from 1789 to 1791. Wilcocks was elected a member of the

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in 1768 and served as a University of Pennsylvania trustee from 1779 until his death in 1801. He is buried at Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia.

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