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William Paca (1740-1799) Artist: Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), 1772. Medium: Oil on canvas. MSA SC 4680-10-0083. Maryland’s Governor While Congress Met. William Paca was born in 1740 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He received his formal education in Philadelphia, studied the law in Annapolis, and completed his legal training in London.
Paca, William (1740-1799), lawyer and politician, was born on 31 Oct 1740, at his father's plantation on the Bush River near Abingdon in Baltimore County, Maryland, the third child and second son of John Paca (c.1712-1785), planter, and his wife Elizabeth Smith (?-c.1766). Both of his parents were natives of Maryland and of English descent.
As mentioned earlier, William Paca, who was born on October 31, 1740, was their second son. Although there is no written documentation about William Paca’s boyhood, it would have entailed the same experiences as other sons of affluent planters of that era. He would have ridden horses, hunted, and explored the environs of his father’s ...
20 de mai. de 2021 · William Paca graduated from the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) in 1759, and he soon moved to Annapolis, Maryland to begin his legal career. He wanted to become a lawyer, which he did, and in the process of doing so he became very good friends with Samuel Chase and Thomas Stone, two fellow lawyers who would both sign the Declaration of Independence with Paca in 1776.
PACA, WILLIAM. (1740–1799). Signer, governor of Maryland, jurist. Maryland. Born near Abingdon, Maryland, on 31 October 1740, Paca graduated from Philadelphia College in 1759, entered the Middle Temple in 1760, and was admitted to the bar in Annapolis the following year. In 1765 he and Samuel Chase organized the Anne Arundel County Sons of ...
November 4, 2016. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the only signers of the Declaration of Independence to become President of the United States, but they certainly weren't the only signers elected to public office in the new federal government. In fact, seven signers were part of the 1st United States Congress (1789-1791), eight including ...
1 de mai. de 2024 · William Paca Grave President George Washington appointed William Paca judge of the federal district court of Maryland in Dec 1789. He held this position until his death on 13 October 1799 at Wye Hall. William Paca was initially buried at Wye Hall, but his body was later moved to the family burial ground near Wye Plantation.
