Samuel Cook Silliman Explained

Samuel Cook Silliman
Office:	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk
Term End:	^[1]
Birth Date:	12 November 1742
Death Date:	^[2]
Death Place:	New Canaan, Connecticut
Restingplace:	Lakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, Connecticut
Spouse:	Elizabeth Stratton (m. Nov. 26, 1765) Dinah Comstock (m. June 28, 1792)
Battles:	American Revolutionary War

Samuel Cook Silliman (also Samuel Cook Syllyman) (November 12, 1742 – February 14, 1795) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk. He served several non-consecutive terms starting in 1779 and ending in 1794.

He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in all of the following sessions:

May 1779^[3]
May 1780, October 1780^[3]
October 1781, May 1782^[3]
May 1783, October 1783^[3]
October 1784, May 1785, October 1785^[3]
October 1786, May 1787, October 1787^[3]
October 1788, May 1789, October 1789^[3]
May 1791^[3]
May 1792, October 1792^[3]
May 1794, October 1794^[3]

Constitutional delegate

On November 12, 1787, the inhabitants of the town of Norwalk had a town meeting with Colonel Thomas Fitch as moderator. Silliman and Hezekiah Rogers were chosen as delegates to meet in a convention at Hartford, following January to ratify the United States Constitution.^[4] Connecticut ratified the Constitution on January 8, 1788, making it the fifth state to do so.

Notes and References

https://books.google.com/books?id=SPYPAAAAYAAJ Public records of the state of Connecticut
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51838652 Find A Grave
https://books.google.com/books?id=ul0EAAAAYAAJ Roll of state officers and members of General Assembly of Connecticut, from 1776 to 1881
Web site: Connecticut Elects 168 delegates for State Conventioin . teachingamericanhistory.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071012075217/http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1688 . 2007-10-12.