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William Rodney (YEAR – YEAR) was a justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from YEAR to YEAR.
William Rodney emigrated to the American colonies in 1681–1682, along with William Penn,[1] and was speaker of the Colonial Assembly of the Delaware Counties in 1704.[1][2]
He was the grandfather of Caesar Rodney.
The first Rodney to migrate to America was William, who sailed out of Bristol, England, in 1681 or 1682 and landed somewhere on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He later went to Philadelphia, then to Sussex County, Delaware, and finally settled on St. Jones Neck, East Dover Hundred, in Kent County. William Rodney married twice and sired nine children. He died in 1708, having achieved a name for himself in the government of the three Delaware counties.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Jackson, Thomas Clark (November 30, 2011). "Caesar Rodney". 2016 The Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
- ^ Baylard, Thomas (October 30, 1889). Proceedings on Unveiling the Monument to Caesar Rodney, and the Oration Delivered on the Occasion by Thomas F. Bayard, at Dover Delaware, October 30th, 1889. Dover Delaware: Delaware Printing Company. p. 13.
- ^ "Caesar Rodney: Patriot" (PDF).
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