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George Read's life spanned between September 18, 1733 and September 21, 1798. Besides being a lawyer and a revolutionary politician in New Castle County, Read was a Continental Congressman, a delegate to the 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention and the President of Delaware under the Federalist Party banner.
A Biography of George Read 1733-1798. Read's mother was the daughter of a Welsh planter, and his Dublin-born father a landholder of means. Soon after George's birth in 1733 near the village of North East in Cecil County, MD, his family moved to New Castle, DE, where the youth, who was one of six sons, grew up.
George Read. Conservative lawyer George Read was the only signer who voted against independence in the final congressional vote on July 2, 1776. In addition to attaining many prominent State offices, he attended the Constitutional Convention, where he defended the rights of the smaller States, and subsequently served as a Senator in the First ...
George Read was President of the Constitutional Convention in 1776, and the author of the first Constitution of Delaware and of the first edition of her laws. In 1782, he was appointed by Congress a judge in the National Court of Appeals in Admiralty. Three years later Congress made him one of the commissioners of a federal court to determine ...
16 de fev. de 2018 · George Read, Delaware Read's mother was the daughter of a Welsh planter, and his Dublin-born father a landholder of means. Soon after George's birth in 1733 near the village of North East in Cecil County, MD, his family moved to New Castle, DE, where the youth, who was one of six sons, grew up.
Delaware. George Reed. Conservative lawyer-jurist George Read attained many State offices and signed both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. At the Convention, he naturally defended the rights of the small States. Later, he served as a Senator in the First Congress, and ended his career as the chief justice of Delaware.
Correspondence, deeds and indentures, a journal, notebooks, legal documents, genealogical records, commissions, printed material, and other papers. Papers of George Read relate chiefly to his activities during the American Revolution and his law practice in New Castle, Del. Includes a journal containing memoranda (1782-1784) kept by James Read as secretary of the Continental Congress Marine ...
