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Bloomfield, Joseph, 1801-1823

Military officer; born in Woodbridge, N. J.; was a law student when the war for independence broke out, when he was made a captain, and entered the service of the patriots, serving until the end of the war. Then he had attained the rank of major. After the war he was attorney-general of New Jersey: governor in 1801-12: brigadier-general during the War of 1812-15; member of Congress 1817-21; and was always esteemed a sound legislator and a judicious leader. He died in Burlington. N. J., Oct. 3, 1823.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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