Warner Mifflin

KC-91: Born into a slaveholding Quaker family in Virginia and later becoming an abolitionist, Warner Mifflin came to Delaware as a young man. An elder of the Religious Society of Friends, he traveled extensively to convince others to free their slaves, manumitting his own in 1774-75. In 1788, he was one of the founders of […]

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Robert Kirkwood, Jr.

NCC-34: Born in 1756, Robert Kirkwood, Jr. spent his youth on the family farm several miles north of Newark. Kirkwood eventually enrolled at the Newark Academy, later to become the University of Delaware. When the American Revolution began, Kirkwood was commissioned first lieutenant in the Delaware Regiment under the command of Colonel John Haslet. He […]

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