A prominent and successful lawyer of Freehold, Vredenburgh "took an active and leading part in politics, and held positions of trust", serving for fifteen years as Prosecutor of the Pleas, and for a term represented Monmouth county in the Senate of New Jersey. For fourteen years he served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.[5]
^Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Voorheis to Vyzral". Retrieved 11 July 2016.
^https://sites.google.com/site/bergencogenweb/home/biographies/vredenburgh-james-b born at Somerville, N. J., October 31, 1805, entered Rutgers College and was graduated therefrom in 1821. He read law at Somerville and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1829. Soon afterward he removed to Freehold, N. J., where he commenced the practice of his profession. In due time he was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for Monmouth County, and soon after was elected to the State Legislature as a member of the Council. Subsequently he was made an associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which position he held for fourteen years from 1854. Many of the opinions which he rendered were beautifully expressed and are continually quoted as precedents. He married April 19, 1836, Eleanor, daughter of Abraham and Catherine (Remsen) Brinckerhoff, born July 1, 1815, died March 29, 1884. Judge Vredenburgh died at Freehold, N. J., March 24, 1873. His children were Peter, William H., and James B.
^Pepe, Barbara (1 January 2003). Freehold: A Hometown History. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN9780738524184. Retrieved 11 July 2016 – via Google Books.
^Salter, Edwin (1 January 1997). Salter's History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties New Jersey, Embracing a Genealogical Record of Earliest Settlers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and Their Descendants. Heritage Books. ISBN9781585494385. Retrieved 11 July 2016 – via Google Books.
^ abEdward Quinton Keasbey, The Courts and Lawyers of New Jersey, 1661-1912, Volume 3 (1912), p. 258-59.
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