Col. Daniel Conyngham Clymer

A Patriot of the American Revolution for PENNSYLVANIA with the rank of LIEUTENANT COLONEL. DAR Ancestor # A02338

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s/o William and Judith (Roberdeau) Clymer h/o Mary Weidner

Was born in Philadelphia. His father was dying when he was only a child, he was educated under the care of his distinquished uncle, Gen Daniel Roberdeau. He graduated at Princeton in 1766, studied law and became eminent in his profession.

At the beginning of the Revolution he at once joined the Associators of that city and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel and placed in command of a rifle battalion. he was appointed in 1775 and again in 1776 by Congress as a signer of Bills of Credit, and held the office of deputy commissary-general of prisoners and commissioner of claims of the treasury. During the closing years of the Revolution he removed to Reading, Berks County, and represented the county in the legislator in 1782 and several succeeding terms. He died in Reading Jan 25, 1810 .

• “Three Generations of the Clymer Family.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 9, no. 3 (1885): 353–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20084718.