Judge Tristam Burges Family Genealogy Mary Harriet Hair

Rhode Island: N/A. Very Good. Date: 1827. Single sheet. Condition: There are 2 tears to the paper as shown in the photo. ; A lock of hair from Mary Harriet Burges who passed away at the age of 13. Mary was born on December 25, 1813. She died on September 9, 1827. Mary was the daughter of Judge Tristam Burges, Sr. And Mary A. Arnold Burges. The hair is in a tiny braid. It is 2 inches in length. The paper it is wrapped in, with the information on Mary is 5 by 8 1/2 inches. "Tristam Burges was a Representative from Rhode Island. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice in Providence, R. I. ; member of the State house of representatives in 1811 and was prominent as a member of the Federal Party; appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island in May 1815; unsuccessful candidate for election to the same in 1816; professor of oratory in Brown University; elected as an Adams candidate tothe Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1835) ; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Nineteenth Congress) , Committee on Military Pensions (Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses) , Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-first Congress) , Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses) ; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor in 1836; resumed the practice of law; died on his estate, “Watchemoket Farm” (now a part of East Providence, R. I. ) , October 13, 1853; interment in North Burial Ground, Providence, R. I. Great-great-uncle of Theodore Francis Green. "- Plymouth County, Mass Bios Project .