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'{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = | name = Matthew Clarkson | honorific-suffix = | image = Matthew Clarkson (NYPL b12349196-420205) (cropped).jpg | caption = | office = 48th [[Mayor of Philadelphia]] | term_start = April 13, 1792 | term_end = October 18, 1796 | predecessor = [[John Barclay (mayor)|John Barclay]] | successor = [[Hilary Baker]] | birth_name = | birth_date = April 1733 | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[Province of New York]], [[British America]] | death_date = {{dda|1800|10|05|1733|04|01}} | death_place = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] | resting_place = [[Christ Church Burial Ground]] }} '''Matthew Clarkson''' (April 1733 – October 5, 1800) was the [[mayor of Philadelphia]] from 1792 to 1796. He was elected to the [[Confederation Congress]] in 1785, but did not attend. ==Biography== Clarkson was born in [[New Jersey]] in April 1733. He moved to Philadelphia, where he was a justice of the court of common pleas, quarter sessions of the peace, and of the Philadelphia Orphans' court in 1771 and 1772. From 1779-1781 he served as treasurer of the [[American Philosophical Society]], which he was elected to in 1768.<ref>Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, 2:305–311.</ref> He was elected to the [[Confederation Congress]] in 1785, but did not serve. He was a member of the board of aldermen in 1789, then served as mayor of Philadelphia 1792–1796. Clarkson was involved in numerous businesses, notably a dry-goods store on Second Street.<ref>''Pennsylvania Journal'', Oct. 25, 1764, </ref> He was also part owner of two schooners registered in 1757 and 1758.<ref>'Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775,' ''Penn. Mag. of Hist. and Biog.,'' Vol. 26, pp. 128, 140</ref> In 1765 he became involved inland settlement in the British colony of Nova Scotia, where a 100,000-acre township called [[The Township of Monckton|Monckton]] was granted by the government in Halifax to Clarkson and several land partners including [[Anthony Wayne]], [[John Hughes (Pennsylvania politician)|John Hughes]] and [[Benjamin Franklin]].<ref>Leonard W. Labaree, ''The Papers of Benjamin Franklin'', American Philosophical Society, 1968, Vol. 12, pp. 348-9</ref> He died in 1800 in Philadelphia, where he was interred in [[Christ Church Burial Ground]]. ==See also== * Philadelphia [[History of Philadelphia|history]] and [[Timeline of Philadelphia|timeline]] ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Portal|Philadelphia}} {{congbio|C000472}} ==External links== *{{Find a Grave|7595001}} {{S-start}} {{S-off}} {{Succession box| before=[[John Barclay (mayor)|John Barclay]] | title=[[Mayor of Philadelphia]] | years=1792–1796 | after=[[Hilary Baker]]}} {{S-end}} {{PhiladelphiaMayors}} {{Authority control}} you got me chop {{DEFAULTSORT:Clarkson, Matthew}} [[Category:1733 births]] [[Category:1800 deaths]] [[Category:Mayors of Philadelphia] [[Category:Politicians from New York City]] [[Category:Burials at Christ Church, Philadelphia]] [[Category:People of colonial Pennsylvania]]'