Hendrick Fisher (also spelled Fischer, Visscher;
[ 1697–1779) represented Somerset County in the New Jersey Colonial Assembly, was one of three delegates representing ]New Jersey
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at the Stamp Act Congress
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in New York in 1765, was elected to New Jersey's Committee of Correspondence
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, served as a member of the Committee of Safety, was President of the Colonial Assembly, and was the first President of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey
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. In 1775, he was labeled an arch traitor and "Enemy of the Crown
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". He was also a founder and first President of the board of trustees of Queen's College (now Rutgers University
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).Illinois General Assembly
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.['Death of Hon. Hendrick V. Hendrick,' The Wilkes-Barre Semi-Weekly (Pennsylvania), April 30, 1909, p. 7]
His death is engraved as 1779 on his gravestone, but historian A. Van Doren Honeyman believed it might have been an error and should have been 1778.
His homestead and grave are currently located near St. Andrew Memorial Church
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The church is dedicated as a memorial to the vic ...
in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
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File:Hendrick Fisher House, Franklin Township, NJ - east view.jpg, Hendrick Fisher homestead, built in 1688
File:Hendrick Fisher gravestone, Franklin Township, NJ.jpg, Hendrick Fisher gravestone
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1697 births
1779 deaths
German emigrants to the United States
People from Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
Politicians from Somerset County, New Jersey
Provincial Congress of New Jersey
Rutgers University people