William Anthony (c. 1752 – September 6, 1832)[1][2] was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from June 1809 to May 1810, and from May 1811 to May 1818.[3]
Anthony was appointed to the court from Portsmouth, Rhode Island.[4]
He lived to the age of 80, at which time he died what was reported to be a remarkably sudden death. One report noted: "At Portsmouth on the 6th inst, very suddenly, Hon. William Anthony, formerly for many years a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of this State, in the 81st year of his age".[1] Another said: "His death was most remarkable and unexpected. He rode alone in his waggon to his daughter's, walked into the house, sat down in a chair—conversed awhile as usual, and then fell into a sleep to wake no more".[2]
References edit
- ^ a b "Died", The Rhode-Island Republican (September 18, 1832), p. 3.
- ^ a b "Deaths", Newport Herald of The Times (September 13, 1832), p. 3.
- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 62.
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