Caesar Rodney was an American lawyer and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, east of Dover. He was an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, a Continental Congress

Continental Congress

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man from Delaware, a signer of the Declaration of Independence

United States Declaration of Independence

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 and President of Delaware during most of the American Revolution.
Caesar Rodney was born in 1728 on his family's farm, "Byfield", on St.