Jesse Root

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Jesse Root (December 28, 1736 – March 29, 1822) was an American minister and lawyer from Coventry, Connecticut. During the American Revolution he served on the Connecticut Council of Safety and in the Connecticut militia. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Connecticut from 1778 until 1782, and sat as chief justice of the state's Supreme Court from 1796 to 1807.

[edit] References

• Jesse Root at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

[edit] External links

• A short text on the origin of Connecticut's laws by Root (1798)