Member of New York colonial assembly, 1768; Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1775, 1777, 1779-80; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York state senate Western District, 1780-84, 1785-89, 1791-97; member of New York council of ...
On the northern coast of Ecuador where García grew up, Esmeraldas province is populated primarily by self-emancipated Africans and the descendants of the enslaved who either escaped or were marooned during transatlantic slave trade that lasted from 1553 to 1821. Later it became...