The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: NJ
Qualifying Service: Civil Service / Patriotic Service
Birth: 06 Mar 1730 Death: 27 Nov 1795 Tewkesbury / Hunt / NJ
Qualifying Service Description:
Justice of the Peace - Freeholder Hunterdon County, NJ
Paid for services rendered
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
“History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers,” Everts & Peck, 1881 - Hunterdon County (N.J.) - pg 478
Patriot biographies must be the original work of the author, and work submitted must not belong to another person or group, in observance with copyright law. Patriot biographies are to be written in complete sentences, follow the established rules of grammar, syntax and punctuation, be free of typographical errors, and follow a narrative format. The narrative should unfold in a logical manner (e.g. the narrative does not jump from time period to time period) or have repeated digressions, or tell the history of the patriot's line from the patriot ancestor to the author. The thinking here is that this is a patriot biography, not a lineage report or a kinship determination project or other report published in a genealogy journal. The biography should discuss the qualifying service (military, patriotic, civil) of the patriot ancestor, where the service was rendered, whether this was a specific state or Continental service, as well as significant events (as determined by the author) of the patriot's life. This is the entire purpose of a patriot's biography.
Additional guidelines around the Biography writeup can be found here:
Send your submission1, in a Microsoft Word compatible format, to patriotbios@sar.org for inclusion in this space 1Upon submission of a patriot biography, the patriot biography becomes the property of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and may be edited to conform to the patriot biography submission standards.
Additional Information:
Find-a-Grave has the patriot listed as "Tunis 'Anthony' Melick". There are two photos of the headstone and another image of an exerpt from a book showing genealogical informaiton. He headstones has both the patriot and wife's names shown, but also his father and a son and his spouse, "Erected by The Melick Family 2001". There are links to other memorials for the patriot's father, wife, and three children