Father and Son: Patriots Who Gave Their All
William Mehls Dewees (1711-1777) The “Father” of this history is William M. Dewees. He was the son of William Dewees of Germantown (1680-1745), “the…
Prisoners of the Bashaw
BOOK REVIEW: Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803–1805 by Frederick C. Leiner (Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2022) As the dust…
Thomas Read of Delaware, Part 3: Continental Navy Commander
Thomas Read (1740-1788) began his seafaring career as a merchant captain, sailing for the Philadelphia firm of Willing and Morris in the ship Aurora,…
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Thomas Read of Delaware, Part 2: Commodore in the Pennsylvania Navy
Thomas Read (1740-1788) of New Castle, Delaware, as we read in the first part of this series, began his seafaring career as a merchant…
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Thomas Read of Delaware, Part 1: The Creation of the Continental Navy
Thomas Read (1740-1788) was the middle son of the Read family of New Castle, Delaware. His older brother George was a delegate to the…
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The Lewes Lighthouse Legend Re-examined and Re-interpreted
Those who write “local history” without documenting or citing their sources may as well be writing historical fiction. There may be some truth in…
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Jacob Jones: The Revolutionary Making of a Naval Hero
Today, Jacob Jones’s portrait as a naval officer hangs in the assembly room of the Old State House in Dover, Delaware. It honors his…
Johan Joachim Zubly: The Other Georgia Delegate
When reading the excellent JAR article “The Dark and Heroic Histories of Georgia’s Signers,” I happened to recall another Georgia delegate to the Second…