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| | John Dickinson |
 | | He was the son of Samuel D. Dickinson, who removed to Delaware, became chief justice of the County of Kent, and died, 6 July 1760, aged seventy-one. |
 | | In 1783 he was influential in founding and largely endowed Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania At this time he was living in Wilmington, Del., where he collected his political writings in 1801. |
 | | His brother, Philemon Dickinson, soldier, born in Croisedore, Talbot County, Maryland, 5 April 1739; died near Trenton, New Jersey, 4 February 1809, went to Dover, Del., with his father in 1740, and studied under Dr. Allison in Philadelphia. |
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