People of Delaware in the American Revolution - Continental Army Officers from Delaware, Continental Congressmen from Delaware (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Continental Army officers from Delaware, Continental Congressmen from Delaware, Delaware militiamen in the American Revolution, Thomas McKean, John Dickinson, George Read, Caesar Rodney, Richard Bassett, Joshua Clayton, John McKinly, John M. Vining, Nicholas Van Dyke, Caleb P. Bennett, Thomas Rodney, Nathaniel Mitchell, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Patten, Jehu Davis, David Hall, Gunning Bedford, Sr., John Cook, Thomas Collins, John Haslet, James Sykes, Archibald Alexander, Samuel Wharton, Robert Kirkwood, Philemon Dickinson, James Tilton, William Peery, Dyre Kearney, Eleazer McComb. Excerpt: John Dickinson (November 8, 1732 - February 14, 1808) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware and President of Pennsylvania. Among the wealthiest men in the British American colonies, he is known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; upon receiving news of his death, President Thomas Jefferson recognized him as being "among the first of the advocates for the rights of his country when assailed by Great Britain" whose "name will be consecrated in history as one of the great worthies of the revolution." He is the namesake of Dickinson College and Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law. Dickinson was born at Croisadore, his family's tobacco plantation near the village of Trappe in Talbot County, Maryland. He was the great grandson of Walter Dickinson who emigrated from England to Virginia in 1654 and, having joined the Society of Friends, came with several co-religionists to Talbot County on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in 1...