Draft:Joseph Growden

Joseph Growden (1652 – December 1730) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, assuming office on February 2, 1690. He served as am associate justice from 1690 to 1691, again for periods in 1693, 1698, and 1701, and from 1705 to 1706. He was then chief justice in 1707, 1709, and from 1711 to 1715.

"JOSEPH GROWDEN, the son of Lawrence Growden, of Cornwall, England, came to Pennsylvania in 1682, with wife and children, and settled in Bensalem, where he took up ten thousand acres for himself and father. His first wife, Elizabeth, dying in 1699, he married Ann Buckley, of Philadelphia, in 1704. He died in December, 1730, leaving two sons, Joseph and Lawrence, who inherited most of his real estate, and three daughters. He held many places of public trust in the infant colony; was member of the privy council; was member of the assembly, and several years speaker of that body; he was frequently upon the bench of this county, and was appointed a supreme judge in 1705."

"• Tax Assessor, Bucks County, 1693 • Justice of the Peace, Bucks County, 1687-1714 (President 1707, 1708, 1711) • Member, General Assembly, 1684, 1685, 1686, 1690, 1693, 1700b, 1701, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1705. 1713, 1715, 1717, 1722; Speaker, 1690, 1693, 1700b, 1701, 1705, 1713, 1715, 1722 • Member, Provincial Council, 1687-1689, 1691-1692, 1695, 1697, 1698, 1700 • Justice of the Peace, Philadelphia County, 1707 (President), 1709 • Alderman and Justice of the Peace, City of Philadelphia, 1713-1730 • Provincial Councillor, 1708-1730"