James Iredell
BIRTH
Oct 5, 1751
Lewes, England
DEATH
October 20, 1799
Edmonton, North Carolina
FAMILY
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Iredell, James
(1751-1799)
James Iredell was a North Carolina lawyer and influential Patriot essayist who defended American resistance and independence. He helped organize the state’s legal system, promoted ratification of the Constitution, and became a United States Supreme Court justice.
James Iredell was born on Oct 5, 1751 in Lewes, England. 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 Iredell with work or public activity as a lawyer, judge, writer. 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 Iredell died on Oct 20, 1799 in Edmonton, North Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.