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    Reverend Jacob Duché (1737–1798) was a Rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the first chaplain to the Continental Congress. Duché was...
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  • Colonel Jacob Duché (1708–1788) was a mayor of Philadelphia in the colonial province of Pennsylvania. Duché was born in Philadelphia, the son of Anthony...
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  • Drelincourt (1626–1681), theologian, pastor, poet, son of Charles Drelincourt. Jacob Duché (1737–1798), pastor in Philadelphia, USA. Pierre Du Moulin (1568–1658)...
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    Congress selected Anglican priest Jacob Duché to "read Prayers to the Congress" on September 5, 1774. On that day, Rev. Duché read the service of the Church...
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    62 (26) Benjamin Shoemaker October 7, 1760 October 6, 1761 49 63 36 Jacob Duché October 6, 1761 October 5, 1762 50 64 37 Henry Harrison October 5, 1762...
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  • the American Revolution. Duché was a student at the Academy of Philadelphia as a child. His father, the Reverend Jacob Duché (1737-1798), was the first...
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    original on 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2015-11-02. Duché, Jacob. "Letter To George Washington from Jacob Duché, 8 October 1777". founders.archives.gov. National...
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  • designer for stage and film Duche Jacob Duché (1737–1798), American colonist, chaplain to the Continental Congress Jacob Duché Sr. (1708–1788), American...
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  • founder of Ohio University Naphtali Daggett, Presbyterian Church pastor Jacob Duché, chaplain to the Continental Congress Timothy Dwight IV, a Congregationalist...
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    called "attic evenings", based upon French salons. Her attendees included Jacob Duché, Francis Hopkinson, Benjamin Rush, and her niece, Anna Young Smith. She...
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    convening of the First Continental Congress in September 1774, Rector Jacob Duché was summoned to Carpenters' Hall to lead the opening prayers. During...
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    parishioners organized themselves into a committee, headed by Colonel Jacob Duché Sr., to build a new church. St. Peter's was founded in 1758 in newly...
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    Tilghman expressing their hopes for a favorable outcome. The Reverend Jacob Duché wrote to Benjamin Franklin about visiting "my most Amiable Friend Lady...
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    owned by S. King, a neighbor to the Wynkoops), on January 4, 1770. Rev. Jacob Duché performed the wedding ceremony. By 1778, Absalom had purchased his wife's...
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  • Duché (born on September 18, 1774, in Philadelphia) on May 23, 1799, at Christ Church in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Reverend Jacob Duché -...
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    wedding on August 7, 1769, was held at Christ Church and officiated by Jacob Duché. Five days before, Samuel purchased for his new family a home later known...
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  • leading to speculation that the author may have been Francis Hopkinson or Jacob Duché. In his book on American drama, Walter Meserve claims that the author...
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    first classes at the Academy. One of his daughters married Reverend Jacob Duché, and another Dr. John Morgan. Hopkinson was an early subscriber of the...
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  • Philadelphia In office October 5, 1762 – October 4, 1763 Preceded by Jacob Duché, Sr. Succeeded by Thomas Willing Personal details Born c. 1712 Lancashire...
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  • 1784–5, pp. 38–9. The second edition of Caspipina's Letters, by the Rev. Jacob Duché, was edited by him in 1777, and he appended to it a brief account of...
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    The Rev. Jacob Duche leads the first prayer before the Continental Congress, Philadelphia, September 7, 1774...
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  • Strettell Mayor of Philadelphia 1752–1753 Succeeded by Thomas Lawrence Preceded by John Stamper Mayor of Philadelphia 1760–1761 Succeeded by Jacob Duché, Sr....
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    Duchy of Jülich (German: Herzogtum Jülich; Dutch: Hertogdom Gulik; French: Duché de Juliers) comprised a state within the Holy Roman Empire from the 11th...
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  • Brandenburg (Hohenzollern) 13 September 1617 9 October 1645 29 August 1676 Jacob Kettler Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen Henry of Nassau-Siegen (Nassau-Siegen)...
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  • and Genius of Pope, Volume 1 (Volume 2 published in 1782), criticism Jacob Duche, "Pennsylvania: A Poem", English, Colonial America Samuel Tilden, Tilden's...
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  • et l'assistance au suicide" (PDF) (in French). Journal Officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. March 16, 2009. Archived (PDF) from the original on September...
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    Below the effigy of the Grand-Duke appear the text ‘Constitution du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg’ and a lateral cut view of an open booklet. The coin’s outer...
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    (I) C. Willing W. Plumsted Shute T. Lawrence (II) Stamper B. Shoemaker Duché Harrison T. Willing T. Lawrence (II) J. Lawrence I. Jones S. Shoemaker Gibson...
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    mesures des empires, royaumes, duchés et principautés des quatre parties du monde. Bordeaux. Retrieved October 30, 2011. Jacob de Gelder (1824). Allereerste...
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    2012 (in Dutch) Christophe Butkens, Trophées tant sacrées que profanes du Duché de Brabant, vol. 3 (1726), p. 129: "CHARLES par la grace de Dieu Roy de...
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