sentences:  From 1808 to 1838 Kirtland was Surrogate Judge of Greene County.In 1830 he published a book on surrogate court laws and procedure, "A Treatise on the Practice in Surrogates' Courts in the State of New York".Kirtland was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819).