1780 in Delaware

none 1780 1780 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)Maryland State Archives https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001400/001498/html/1498bio.html 18 November 2013 December 24 – Willard Hall, attorney and politician (d. 1875)https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/hall-willard Hall, Willard - Federal Judicial Center www.fjc.govhttps://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000076 HALL, Willard 1780 – 1875 bioguide.congress.gov Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 27 December 2023 Undated William Bayard Shields, judge, lawyer and politician (d. 1823)William David McCain, The Journal of Mississippi History (1979). Deaths August 19 – Johann de Kalb, Franconian-born French military officer (b. 1721) December 2021 Undated Hugh Montgomery, sea captain (b. unknown)Montgomery 1851 181The Reports of the Committees of the Senate of the United States for the Third Session of the Thirty-Fourth Congress Petition of Elizabeth Montgomery, Report 317 https://books.google.com/books?id=z3FHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR146 146–7 1857 Washington See also 1780 in the United States List of years in Delaware References Montgomery Elizabeth Reminiscences of Wilmington, in Familiar Village Tales, Ancient and New T.K. Collins, Jr. 1851 https://archive.org/details/reminiscenceswi00montgoog