IREDELL, Welt!, James, American jurist: b. Lewes, Sussex, England, 5 Oct. 1750; d. Edenton, N. C., 20 Oct. 1799. He was ap pointed comptroller of customs at Port Roa noke, now Edenton, where he arrived in 1768, retained this office several years, and meanwhile studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1771. He was appointed by the attorney-gen eral his deputy in 1774, and in the same year was appointed collector of the province; in 1777 he was placed by the legislature on the bench of the Supreme Court, then just organized under the State constitution. He resigned in June 1778, and in the following year was made at torney-general of North Carolina. This ap pointment, too, he resigned in gm In 1787 he was designated by the general assembly a member of the State council and sole commis sioner to collect and revise the acts of previous assemblies, which were to be considered in force in North Carolina. This collection of the
laws, now referred to as elredell's Revisal,* was published in 1791. In February 1790 he be came one of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and held that office till his death. He was a stanch supporter of the fed eral cause and worked hard for the acceptance of the new Federal constitution by North Caro lina. One of the counties of his State was named after him in 1788. The 'Life and Cor respondence' of Iredell was published in 1857. Consult Connor, H. G., 'James Iredell' (in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. LX, p. 225, Philadelphia 1912) ; Davis, J., fred Moore and James Iredell' (Raleigh 1899); McRee, G. J., 'Life and Correspondence of James Iredell' (2 vols., New York 1857-58).