Note 1 — Chapter 22 Burned in Effigy

This is the inscription on a tablet at the State House, Dover Green, Dover, in commemoration of Delaware’s revolutionary leaders. Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Caeser Rodney—Thomas McKain—George Read At the urgent request of Thomas McKain, Caesar Rodney being then in Delaware, rode post haste on horseback to Philadelphia and reached Independence Hall July 4, 1776. The following day news of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence reaching Dover a portrait of King George was burned on Dover Green at the order of the Committee of Safety. The following historic words being uttered by the chairman: “Compelled by strong necessity thus we destroy even the shadow of that king who refused to reign over a free people.”