SANDS, Joshua [1757-1835] -- American soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman

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During the war of 1775 he was a member of the Brooklyn home guards; in 1797 was appointed collector of customs for the port of New York; and was at one time a magistrate in Kings county. He also took an active part in the revolutionary war to its close. He was a member of the New York senate from Kings county from 1792 to 1799; and was a representative in congress from 1803 to 1804, and again from 1825 to 1827. He died Sept. 13, 1835, in Queens county, N. Y.
[Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography]

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  - SANDS, Joshua (1757-1835) Biographical Information From the US Congressional Biography site
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  - Place in History | Dumbo In the 1780s, landowners Joshua Sands, Comfort Sands and John Jackson began to develop the new city of "Olympia" in the area between Fulton Ferry Landing and today's Navy Yard.
  - The Hoboken Land and Improvement Co. Received stock in the company.
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  - The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Sanderson to Sanfemio
  - Grave of Joshua Sands
  - Peter Minuit Chapter News On October 28, 2000, Peter Minuit Chapter of the DAR dedicated a memorial at the grave of Captain Joshua Sands.
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