AMERICAN REVOLUTION FACTS
It is 1778, the third year
of fighting and no end in sight. The Tories of Sussex county seemed
near to taking control of
Delaware. But then there was Rev. Dr. Mathew Wilson who was a
prominent physician and
pastor of Lewes' Presbyterian Church on the Kings Highway and
a unrelenting Patriot, a
Whig. He was a leader of the local boycott of the tea tax.
Many Sussex residents
remained loyal to the British King and Wilson, with Henry Fisher
and William Peery of Sussex
county rallied residents to the Patriot cause. However , the
Tories cause was still
strong. Wilson had two courses of action planed, first was to
divide
Delaware between Maryland
and Pennsylvania, the second was to ban Tories from public office.
Wilson was convinced many
Delaware officers were British supporters and proposed a scheme
to ferret out the Loyalists
by pardon of a Tory or two which would give true witness against the
rest.
A Tory, James Cooper,
from Sussex county was the choice but it is not known if Wilson's
plan
was followed, but the
Sussex county Tories soon began to wane .
Abstract 06/30/178 by
Harrison H from Michael Morgans Delaware Diary, Delaware Coast
Press.
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