Samuel Cook Silliman

Samuel Cook Silliman
Samuel Cook Silliman
Member of the; Connecticut House of Representatives; from Norwalk
Personal details
Born	November 12, 1742
Died	February 14, 1795 (aged 53); New Canaan, Connecticut
Resting place	Lakeview Cemetery,; New Canaan, Connecticut
Spouse	Elizabeth Stratton (m. Nov. 26, 1765) Dinah Comstock (m. June 28, 1792)
Military service
Battles/wars	American Revolutionary War

Samuel Cook Silliman (also Samuel Cook Syllyman) (November 12, 1742 – February 14, 1795) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk. He served several non-consecutive terms starting in 1779 and ending in 1794.

He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in all of the following sessions:

May 1779^[3]
May 1780, October 1780^[3]
October 1781, May 1782^[3]
May 1783, October 1783^[3]
October 1784, May 1785, October 1785^[3]
October 1786, May 1787, October 1787^[3]
October 1788, May 1789, October 1789^[3]
May 1791^[3]
May 1792, October 1792^[3]
May 1794, October 1794^[3]

Constitutional delegate

On November 12, 1787, the inhabitants of the town of Norwalk had a town meeting with Colonel Thomas Fitch as moderator. Silliman and Hezekiah Rogers were chosen as delegates to meet in a convention at Hartford, following January to ratify the United States Constitution.^[4] Connecticut ratified the Constitution on January 8, 1788, making it the fifth state to do so.

References

^ Public records of the state of Connecticut
^ Find A Grave
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Roll of state officers and members of General Assembly of Connecticut, from 1776 to 1881
^ "Connecticut Elects 168 delegates for State Conventioin". teachingamericanhistory.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.

Preceded by Thomas Belden Samuel Comstock	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1794–1795 With: Taylor Sherman, Eliphalet Lockwood	Succeeded by Taylor Sherman Eliphalet Lockwood
Preceded by ? ?	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1792–1793 With: Job Bartram, Samuel Comstock	Succeeded by Thomas Belden Samuel Comstock
Preceded by Eliphalet Lockwood Job Bartram	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1791 With: Eliphalet Lockwood	Succeeded by ? ?
Preceded by ? ?	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1788–1790 With: Thomas Belden, Thaddeus Betts	Succeeded by Eliphalet Lockwood Job Bartram
Preceded by Thaddeus Betts Hezekiah Rogers	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1786–1788 With: Eliphalet Lockwood, Thomas Belden, Hezekiah Rogers	Succeeded by ? ?
Preceded by Thaddeus Betts Stephen St. John	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1784–1786 With: Stephen St. John, Thaddeus Betts	Succeeded by Thaddeus Betts Hezekiah Rogers
Preceded by Stephen St. John James Richards	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1783–1784 With: Stephen St. John, Clapp Raymond	Succeeded by Stephen St. John Thaddeus Betts
Preceded by Stephen St. John Matthew Mead	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1781–1782 With: Stephen St. John, Eliphalet Lockwood	Succeeded by Stephen St. John James Richards
Preceded by Stephen St. John Matthew Mead	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1780–1781 With: Stephen St. John	Succeeded by Stephen St. John Matthew Mead
Preceded by Stephen St. John Clapp Raymond	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk 1779 With: Matthew Mead	Succeeded by Clapp Raymond James Richards

[1] Public records of the state of Connecticut

[2] Find A Grave

[roll-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Roll of state officers and members of General Assembly of Connecticut, from 1776 to 1881

[4] "Connecticut Elects 168 delegates for State Conventioin". teachingamericanhistory.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.

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