John Dickinson

John Dickinson was a lawyer, scholar, and statesman whose grave is nearby. He served in the colonial assemblies of Delaware and Pennsylvania and in the Legislative Council of Delaware State. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Stamp Act Congress, a representative in the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania and Delaware, and president of both states. He signed the Articles of Confederation for Delaware, served as a member from Delaware and chairman of the Annapolis Convention, and was a Delaware delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention, where he was a framer and signer of the Constitution. He was a judge of the Delaware Court of Appeals, president of the Second Delaware Constitutional Convention, rendered military service in the Revolution, wrote the famous “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania,” helped found Dickinson College, and lived in Kent County and at Eighth and Market Streets, Wilmington.

Wilmington, Delaware · United States