Nathan Dane - Further reading

Lawyer and statesman, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA. A delegate to the Continental Congress in 1785, and later a commissioner to revise the statutes of Massachusetts, he published a nine-volume General Abridgement and Digest of American Law, the first comprehensive work on US law (1823–9). He arranged that the income from this work be used to establish a chair in the Harvard Law School, provided that Joseph Story was the first holder.

Nathan Dane (December 29, 1752 – February 15, 1835) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1785 through 1788.

Nathan was born at Ipswich in Essex County, Massachusetts.

Dane served in the state House from 1782 to 1785, and the national Congress from 1787 to 1788. In 1794 he served on a commission that reviewed and codified the laws of Massachusetts, and also is given credit for the Act of Continental Congress which encouraged European-American settlers into the Northwest Territory and formed the basis of the Constitutions of the five states there (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin).

Nathan died at home in Beverly and is buried in the Central Cemetery there.

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