Witherspoon
JOHN, an Ameri- Jersey to the Continental Congress, and 1768; delegate for six years from New came president of Princeton College in tonshire, Scotland, Feb. 5, 1722. He bea signer of the Declaration of Independ- Jersey to the Continental Congress, and He wrote; "Ecclesiastical Char- 1768; delegate for six years from New ence.
Vol. X WITTE tions on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament" (1774); etc. ("Works," 9 vols. Edinburgh, 1804). He died near Princeton, N. J., Sept. 15, 1794.