Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784
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Legislator, judge, president of Delaware, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
From the description of Papers, 1775, 1778. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 469808751
At this time, Caesar Rodney was serving in Congress in Philadelphia. He was very ill and near the end of his life. Thomas Rodney was his younger brother, also a statesman.
From the description of Letter to Thomas Rodney, 1782 February 21. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155866492
Rodney was a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Major General, and President of Delaware.
From the description of DS, 1765 December 5 : Maryland. Articles of Agreement. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 13880598
From the description of ALS, 1782 March 31 : Philadelphia, to Thomas Rodney, Wilmington or Dover. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 13880653
Caesar Rodney (1720-1784), statesman, was a colonial legislator in Delaware and representative to the Stamp Act Congress and to the Continental Congress. He served as a major-general in the Delaware militia, signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and was president of Delaware from 1778 to 1781.
From the description of Caesar Rodney correspondence, 1749-1823. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122532346
Declaration of Independence signer from Delaware.
From the description of Letter to [Thomas Rodney] and portrait, 1776 May 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55225201
Thomas Rodney, the recipient, was the younger brother of Caesar Rodney.
From the description of Letter, 1782. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213470882
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Subjects:
- Slavery
- American loyalists
- Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777
- Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776
- Newspapers
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- Statesmen
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- Delaware (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Delaware (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Delaware (as recorded)