1780 in Delaware

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This is a list of events in 1780 in Delaware.

Incumbents

• Governor: Caesar Rodney

Events

• October 20 – The 5th Delaware General Assembly convenes succeeding the 4th.

Births

• January 15 – Cornelius P. Comegys, farmer and politician, 31st governor (d. 1851)
• August 7 – Benjamin Ferris, watchmaker and historian (d. 1867)
• October 17 – Thomas Beale Dorsey, farmer, lawyer, politician and judge (d. 1855) ^[1]
• December 24 – Willard Hall, attorney and politician (d. 1875) ^{[2] [3]}

Undated

• William Bayard Shields, judge, lawyer and politician (d. 1823) ^[4]

Deaths

• August 19 – Johann de Kalb, Franconian-born French military officer (b. 1721)^{[ citation needed ]}

Undated

• Hugh Montgomery, sea captain (b. unknown) ^{[5] [6]}

See also

• 1780 in the United States
• List of years in Delaware

References

1. "Maryland State Archives" . Retrieved 18 November 2013.
2. "Hall, Willard - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
3. "HALL, Willard 1780 – 1875". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 27 December 2023.
4. William David McCain, The Journal of Mississippi History (1979).
5. Montgomery 1851, p. 181.
6. "Petition of Elizabeth Montgomery, Report 317". The Reports of the Committees of the Senate of the United States for the Third Session of the Thirty-Fourth Congress. Washington. 1857. pp. 146–7.

• Montgomery, Elizabeth (1851). Reminiscences of Wilmington, in Familiar Village Tales, Ancient and New. T.K. Collins, Jr.