By John A. Munroe
This quantity provides a different sampling of the author's writings from the previous sixty years, besides a few formerly unpublished fabrics. It starts off with an extended prologue that the writer calls a literary autobiography, and this tale is sustained and amplified in introductory notes that accompany all the following goods. the 1st essay presents a identify for the ebook and likewise a subordinate subject matter, the connection among Delaware and town of Philadelphia. This subject matter reappears in lots of guises within the heritage of different goods as, for instance, in a precis of recent Castle's heritage, in an research of an scan in nonresident illustration in Congress, and in clarification of the original value of an early Wilmington collector of customs. within the final essay, formerly unpublished, the connection is custom-made in a memory contributing to the autobiographical subject with which the e-book begun. Illustrated
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Sotzmann, Maryland und Delaware (Hamburg, 1797); ‘‘States of Maryland and Delaware from the Latest Survey,’’ engraved for Payne’s Geography (New York, 1799). 10578$ $CH1 05-25-04 13:43:55 PS 48 THE PHILADELAWAREANS 16. T. Rodney, Journal of a Trip to Philadelphia, Sept. 14, 1769. 17. T. Rodney, Diary, May 11, 1788, Rodney MSS. 18. Rochefoucault, Travels, 3: 487. , The Progress of a Plough-Boy to a Seat in Parliament . . (London, 1933), 60. Cobbett was one of the many ambitious men who moved from Delaware to Philadelphia because of the opportunities offered in America’s metropolis of the day.
20, 1799. 15 President Washington considered calling Congress to meet in Wilmington in 1793 to escape the plague in Philadelphia. See his letter to Jefferson, Oct. 11, 1793, W. C. , Writings of Washington (New York, 1891), 12: 335. 36. , The Diary of Francisco de Miranda, Tour of the United States, 1783–1781 (New York, 1928), 32. 37. Wilmington, Nov. 1, 1796, Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Autobiography (Dublin, 1840), 301. ’’ To Mrs. Rowan, Brandywine, Nov. , 346. 38. J. Hugo Tatsch, Freemasonry in the Thirteen Colonies (New York, 1933), 158–66.
One of the most distinguished men produced by the Lower Counties in this period was Edward Miller, son of the Presbyterian minister at Dover. After studying at Newark Academy and with Dr. Charles Ridgely in Kent, he proceeded to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was granted the bachelor’s degree in 1785 and the doctorate in 1789. 69 The Dr. Ridgely just mentioned had also acquired his medical training in Philadelphia, where he had studied at the academy and with Dr. Bond. Returning to Dover to practice, he took an active interest in politics, becoming by the outbreak of the Revolution the acknowledged leader of the court party in Kent County.
