LEWES HISTORY 1890'S
DR. WILLIAM PANYTER ORR,
JR.
Dr. Orr's family has
roots in Lewes stretched back to the late 17th
century when the
pirate Captain Kidd
dropped anchor at the Cape of Delaware Bay for over a week wile
he took on provisions and
supposedly buried loot in the Cape Henlopen sands.
An ancestor of Dr. Orr's,
William Orr, and other Lewes residents, went aboard Kidds
ship , purchased and
brought ashore , some of the pirate loot. William Penn, head of
the
Delaware colonies, found
out about the exchange and had Orr and others arrested and
banned them from living in
the coastal area. Although he was banished from Cape Henlopen
Orr never left town and
his descendants continued to live in Lewes.
William Paynter Orr was
born on March 14, 1857, according to the Delaware Pilot
newspaper, received
education at Lewes schools, Pennsylvania Military College in
Chester,
then West Point Academy.
After graduating there he received a medical degree at
Philadelphia's University
of Pennsylvania in 1884.
At first he had his medical
practice in Rehoboth but soon came back to Lewes to become a
leading citizen and the
resident physician at Delaware Breakwater Quarantine Station.
Abstract: Michael Morgan's
Delaware Diary, Delaware Pilot , 12 February, 1897,
Delaware Coast Press,
March 27, 2019.
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