William Anthony (judge)

William Anthony (c. 1752 – September 6, 1832)^[1][2] was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from June 1809 to May 1810, and from May 1811 to May 1818.^[3]

Anthony was appointed to the court from Portsmouth, Rhode Island.^[4]

He lived to the age of 80, at which time he died what was reported to be a remarkably sudden death. One report noted: "At Portsmouth on the 6th inst, very suddenly, Hon. William Anthony, formerly for many years a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of this State, in the 81st year of his age".^[1] Another said: "His death was most remarkable and unexpected. He rode alone in his waggon to his daughter's, walked into the house, sat down in a chair—conversed awhile as usual, and then fell into a sleep to wake no more".^[2]