FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSEN (1753 – 1804) was born in Somerset County, New Jersey, and graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1770. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1774. He was a member of the Provincial Congress of new Jersey in 1775-1776, and served in the Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1779, he was a member of the Continental Congress, and from 1781 to 1789, he was the clerk of the Somerset County Court of Common Pleas. He was a member of the state ratifying convention for the U.S. Constitution in 1787. He represented New Jersey in the U.S. Senate from 1793 to 1796, and served as a major general in 1794 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. He served in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1784 and from 1800 to 1804.

One-page 5 ¾ x 7 ¾ document signed paying Frelinghuysen for being a member of the New Jersey Assembly who “attended thirty eight days...for which he is entitled to receive eighty-six dollars and twenty cents from the Treasury of this state. And the said Frederick Frelinghuysen is further entitled to receive five dollars & ninety cents  his place of residence being twenty six miles distant from the seat of the Legislature....this second day of December 1802...Total 92.16.”  Signed by William Pearson and Peter Gordon, obviously pay table committee members and by Frelinghuysen on the verso.

Frelinghuysen served in Col. Charles Stewarts Battalion of Minutemen in 1776. He fought in the battles of Trenton, Springfield, Elizabethtown and Monmouth. In the Battle of Trenton, he killed Hessian Commander Rhalle. In 1790, during the campaign against western Indians, President George Washington appointed Frelinghuysen to the military rank of Brigadier General.  During the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, Frelinghuysen was commissioned as a Major General.  

Toning. Light chipping on the right top, affecting very little. Some bleed through. 

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