James Duane
BIRTH
Feb 6, 1733
New York City, New York
DEATH
February 1, 1797
Schenectady, New York
FAMILY
FATHER:
Anthony Duane
(1679-1747)
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Duane, James
(1733-1797)
James Duane was a New York lawyer and statesman who served in the Continental Congress and helped shape New York's revolutionary government. He supported independence, worked on national financial and diplomatic matters, and later became New York City's first postwar mayor.
GRAVE:
GRAVE
Christ Episcopal Church cemetery
132 Duanesburg Churches Road, Duanesburg, NY 12056, United States
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WIFE
Mary Livingston
(1738-1821)
Sarah Duane
(1775-1828)
Adelia Duane
(1838-1915)
Maria North
(1793-1841)
James Chatham Duane
(1794-1859)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Independence National Historical Park | 520 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 | MUSEUM | ||
Trinity Church | 89 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 | PARK |
DIED:
Schenectady, New York
Feb 1, 1797
James Duane was born on Feb 6, 1733 in New York City, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies James Duane with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. James Duane died on Feb 1, 1797 in Schenectady, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.