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Exhibition Catalog: Penn and The Declaration of Independence

Exhibition Catalog
Penn and The Declaration of Independence

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table of contents
  1. Title Page
    1. Introduction
    2. Acknowledgements
  2. Part 1: "In the Town"
    1. Constructing an Institution
    2. Centering Penn in the Eighteenth Century City
    3. Foundation and Fracture
    4. "a Scheme for transplanting Medical Science"
  3. Part 2: Civility & Scurrility
    1. Civility: William Smith and His Circle
    2. Scurrility: The Politics of “Quilsylvania”
      1. Provost in Prison! Franklin Accused!
  4. Part 3: Frontiers of Education
  5. Part 4: Doctors At War
  6. Part 5: "The Sphere of Political Tumult"
    1. Broadsides: Popular Voices?
  7. Part 6: Paine, Penn, and the Revolutions of Philadelphia
    1. Constituting a New Order
    2. Thomas Paine, Penn Graduate
    3. The Secretary and the Scribe
      1. Penn and the Declaration of Independence
  8. Part 7: The Radical's University
    1. Dissension and Dissolution; Reformation
    2. "WE, Trustees of the University of the State of Pennsylvania . . ."
    3. The Political Scientists and A New Symbol
    4. Named and Unnamed in Print: Esther and Joseph Reed
    5. Where are they now? The revolutionary lives of Penn’s first graduates
  9. Part 8: Student Life in the Revolutionary Era
    1. Traitors and Trials: Of André and Arnold
  10. Part 9: Slavery and Freedom
  11. Part 10: Reunion and Regret
  12. Bibliography

Penn and The Declaration of Independence

John Turnbull (1756–1843), Declaration of Independence, 1817, oil on canvus, United States Capital.

Seven signers of the Declaration of Independence had connections to Penn (numbers refer to painting position):

  • 7: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), no. , Founder; Trustee 1749–1790
  • 4: George Clymer (1739–1813), Trustee 1779–1813
  • 6: Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791), Attended first class of Academy, 1751; A.B. 1757; A.M. (hon.) 1760; LL.D. 1790; Trustee 1778–1791
  • 8: Thomas McKean (1734–1817), A.M. (hon.) 1763; LL.D. 1785; Trustee 1779–1817
  • 2: Robert Morris (1734–1806), Trustee 1778–1791
  • 1: William Paca (1740–1799), Attended Academy, 1752–1756; A.B. 1759; A.M. (hon.) 1762
  • 3: Benjamin Rush (1746–1813), Faculty 1769–1813
  • 5: James Wilson (1742–1798), no. , A.M. (hon.) 1766; LL.D. 1790; Faculty 1765–1766, 1790–1798; Trustee 1779–1798

    • Two additional people were associated with the production of the Declaration (numbers refer to painting position):

  • Timothy Matlack (1736-1829), engrosser of the final copy of the Declaration; Trustee, 1779–1785
  • 9: Charles Thomson (1729–1824), counter-signatory of the first printing in his role of Secretary of the Continental Congress; Faculty 1750–1755; LL.D. 1784

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