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Photographer: Nate Davidson
Taken: March 17, 2008
Caption: Grave Restoration
Additional Description: An interesting note about John McKinly that is not mentioned on the marker is that his term of service of President of Delaware ended when British troops entered his home, roused him from bed, and kidnapped him. He was detained for some months while the British hoped that he could be used as a pawn in a prisoner exchange. Delaware leaders did nothing to help McKinly, for by this time hard-line revolutionaries had taken power in the government and they resented McKinly's conservative tendancies. This embittered McKinly and after the war would never again become involved in politics of the state.
Submitted: January 9, 2011, by Nathan Davidson of Salisbury, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p142025
File Size: 0.799 Megabytes

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