Burials in New Castle County, Delaware

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Anthony Higgins, Arnold Naudain, C. Douglass Buck, Charles Thomas (governor), Daniel O. Hastings, George B. Rodney, George Gray (senator), George Read (U.S. statesman), Gunning Bedford, Sr., Harris B. McDowell, Jr., Henry A. du Pont, J. George Stewart, John P. Cochran, John W. Rollins, Kensey Johns, Jr., L. Heisler Ball, Nicholas Van Dyke (governor), Nicholas Van Dyke (senator), T. Coleman du Pont, Thomas Stockton, Walter W. Bacon. Excerpt: George Read (September 18, 1733 ¿ September 21, 1798) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and Chief Justice of Delaware. Read was born in Cecil County, Maryland on September 18, 1733. He was the son of John and Mary (Howell) Read. When George Read was an infant the family moved to New Castle County, Delaware, settling near the village of Christiana. As he grew up, Read joined Thomas McKean at the Rev. Francis Allison's Academy at New London, Pennsylvania and then studied law in Philadelphia with John Moland. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1753 and a year later he returned home to establish a practice at New Castle, Delaware. In 1763 married Gertrude Ross Till, daughter of the Rev. George Ross, the Anglican rector of Immanuel Church in New Castle and widowed sister of George Ross, also a future signer of the Declaration of Independence. They had five children, John, George Jr., William, John, and Mary, who married Matthew Pearce (she is often confused with her paternal aunt, Mary Read, who in 1769 married Gunning Bedford, Sr., a future Governor of Delaware). They lived on The Strand in New Castle and their house was in what is now the garden of the present Read House and Gardens, owned by the Delaware Historical Society. They were members of Immanuel Episcopal Church. In 1763 John Penn, the Proprietary Governor, appointed Read Crown Attorney General for the three Delaware counties and he served in that position until leaving for the Continental Congress in 1774. He also served in the Colonial Assembly of the Lower Counties for twelve sessions, from 1764/65 through 1775/76. The presentation of the Declaration of Independence to Congress. Eighteenth century De