Thomas Sedgwick (c. 1755–c. 1820)
Thomas Sedgwick was born in Maryland. In 1777 he married Ann Rigby (died c. 1798). Sometime afterwards the couple moved to western Pennsylvania, where Sedgwick was a farmer, land speculator, distiller and justice of the peace of Washington County. Following a brief imprisonment for his part in the Whiskey Rebellion—his case would reach the U.S. Supreme Court in 1795—Sedgwick served as justice of the peace for the newly-formed Greene County. He died there around 1820, survived by his second wife.
"Enclosure: List of Persons in Confinement at the Town of Washington, [November 1794]," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0353-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17, August 1794 – December 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, pp. 373–374.]
Don Corbly, Pastor John Corbly and his Neighbors in Greene Township (2010).
Maeva Marcus, ed. The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1800, Volume 1, Part 1 and Volume 6 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985 and 1998).
The Mail, or ClayPoole’s Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 20 September 1791 (America’s Historical Newspapers).
Thomas Sedgwick in 1800 United States Federal Census (Ancestry.com).
Thomas Sedgwick in Maryland, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1634–1777 (Ancestry.com).
Thomas Sedgwick at Sedgwick.org: Sedgwick Genealogy in North America.