He served in the Senate from 1817 until 1820, and was previously the Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court in 1816 and 1817 and the state's attorney general from 1797 to 1814.

[2] Burrill was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815.

[4] His grandson is the American writer and public speaker, George William Curtis.

[citation needed] Burrill died of tuberculosis in Washington, D.C., on December 25, 1820.

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