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John McLean (Congressional Biographical Directory)
"McLean, John," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000549.
McLEAN, John, (brother of William McLean), a Representative from Ohio; born in Morris County, N.J., March 11, 1785; moved with his parents to Morgantown, Va., in 1789, to Nicholasville, Ky., in 1790, to Maysville, Ky., in 1793, and to Lebanon, Ohio, in 1797; attended the common schools and studied under private tutors; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Lebanon, Ohio; founded the Western Star, a weekly newspaper; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1813, until his resignatio
Moncure Conway (Dickinson Chronicles)
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John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Moncure Daniel Conway,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/c/ed_ConwayMD.html.
Moncure Daniel Conway was born the second son of an old and distinguished family on March 17, 1832 in Stafford County, Virginia. His father, Walker Peyton Conway, was a prominent slaveholding landowner, a magistrate, and a representative to the Virginia legislature. His mother, Margaret Daniel Conway, could trace her family to the earliest days of the commonwealth. Both his parents had converted to Methodism, he from the Episcopalians and she from the Presbyterians, and the Conway children were exposed at an early age to evangelicalism.
South Carolina secedes from the Union and declares itself "an independent commonweath"
At around one o'clock in the afternoon, John A. Inglis, chair of the committee charged with drafting a document of secession, rose to present a brief one paragraph "Ordinance" for a vote. The vote was taken immediately with a result of 169 for and none against. At seven that evening, in the South Carolina Institute Hall, the ordinance was signed by all delegates and delivered to the Governor, who declared around nine o'clock South Carolina to be "an independent commonwealth." (By John Osborne)
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John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America.... (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 151-153.
On their return, this committee, by issuing circulars and reporting the result of their mission, prepared the way for a convention of delegates from the several towns, which had now become accustomed for some time to act together for mutual defence.
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York County, Pennsylvania (Fanning's, 1853)
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Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 399.
YORK COUNTY, situated on the south boundary of Pennsylvania, with Susquehanna river on the northeast. Area, 864 square miles. Face of the country, hilly; soil, varied. Seat of justice, York. Pop. in 1810, 31,958; in 1820, 38,759; in 1830, 42,658; in 1840, 47,010; in 1850, 57,450.