[3] After Elisha Jenkins had passed a resolution questioning Solomon Van Rensselaer's honesty, the two men came to blows.

[citation needed] Witnesses said that Bloodgood then struck Van Rensselaer on the head with a large cane.

[3] Bloodgood's first wife died on November 13, 1818, aged fifty, and was buried in the Presbyterian burial ground.

[3] Francis Bloodgood entered office in 1831 and paid all the debts of those in debtors' prison on the occasion of his swearing in.

[1][9] In fact this report was in error-Edward Bloodgood was a Brevet Lt Col/Captain 38th US Infantry Regiment In command of Fort Seldon, New Mexico in 1868 [10] and died in 1914.