DIED – At Halifax, on the 4th inst., John SITGREAVES, Esq., Judge of the Court of the United States for the North Carolina district.  He served, for a time, as an officer in the revolutionary war.  After the peace he was chosen a Member of Congress under the confederation.  He was repeatedly elected a Member of the Legislature of this state for his native town, Newbern; and for several years part he held the office of which he died possessed.

Source: Raleigh Register & North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, March 16, 1802.