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Penn in the 18th Century

Penn Students in the 18th Century:
Classes of 1780-1789

 

1780 The University of the State of Pennsylvania conferred these degrees which were originally supposed to be granted by the College of Philadelphia, where they were examined in 1779 (except Mr. Sitgreaves)
 

John Bleakley
John Caldwell
Peter Renaude Chevalier
James Coultas Gray
Samuel Powel Griffitts
Benjamin Morris
Joseph Rush
Samuel Sitgreaves

William Allston
Robert Dorsey
George Fox
William Temple Franklin
Robert Gray
Mathias Harrison
Paxton Hatch
James Hopewell
Joseph Lisle
Joseph Mayo
Henry White Physick
George Simpson
John Smith
Thomas Waties
James Yard

James Davidson
Justus Christian Henry Helmuth
John Christopher Kunze
William Marshall
Henry Ernst Muhlenberg
Thomas Paine
Caspar Dietrich Weiberg

 

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1781 Degrees conferred by the University of the State of Pennsylvania
 

William Clarkson
William Ewing
Francis William Murray
Andrew Robert Proudfit
George Swift
James Wade

James Carson
James Hanson
William Moore Wharton

William Barton
William Bradford, Jr.

 

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A.M.( hon.)
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1782 Degrees conferred by the University of the State of Pennsylvania
 

Moses Bartram
Michael Byrnes
John Catlett
Joseph Clarkson
John Johnson
James Kelly
William Kennedy
Joseph Borden McKean
Thomas Memminger
Thomas Nelson
William Nelson
John Proudfit
Thomas Stewart
Robert Brooke Voss
John Wade
Thomas Parr Wharton

George Alberti
Pitt Buchanan
Thomas Chamberlain
David Harding
Thomas Hockley
William Prestman (Priestman)
John Rumsey
John Shee
Gilbert [Tennent] Snowden
Joseph Swift

Peter Stephen DuPonceau
Andrew Gregg
Fiacre Maximilien Robilliard
Samuel Sterrett

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François Barbé-Marbois
François Jean de Beauvoir Chevalier de Chastellux

LL. D.( hon.)
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Elihu Spencer

 

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1783 Degrees conferred by the University of the State of Pennsylvania
 

George Bartram
Issac Briggs
Richard Samuel Footman
Nathan Grier
Anthony Morris
Ephraim Ramsay
James Snodgrass
William Stewart
Stephen Sykes
John Chew Thomas
Joseph Thomas

John Bannister
Robert Blaine
Arthur Davison (Davidson)
William Gordon Forman
William Hemsley (Hemsley)
Henry Izard
Reynold Keen (or Kein)
Archibald McCall
Joseph Ramsay
John Ridgeley
John Schuyler (or Skuyler)
Joseph Sewel (or Sewell)
Conrad Shultz
John Stockholm
William West
Thomas (Mayne) Willing
Samuel Young

George Washington  

 

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1784 Degrees conferred by the University of the State of Pennsylvania
 

Thomas Willing Francis
Charles Goldsborough
Robert Marion
Samuel Theodore Marion
Joseph Miller
William Miller
William Parker
Henry Stuber

Thomas Armstrong
Daniel Bell
Jacob Clarkson
Lefferts Carmick
Joseph Clay
Jeremiah Condy
William Donaldson
Robert Dunkin (Duntzin)
David Francis
John Hallowell
Enoch Hobart
Peter Keen (or Kein)
Joseph Kershaw
William Lux
Archibald McSparran
John Mease
Robert Mease
Luke Morris
Thomas P. Pennell (possibly 1782-1810)
Abraham Pryor

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg

Charles Thomson

 

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1785 Degrees conferred by the University of the State of Pennsylvania
 

Robert Clerk
John Gemmill
William Griffitts
Philip Syng Physick
Samuel Prioleau

David Caldwell
George Clarkson
William Davidson (Davison)
James Gibson
Dominick A. (Augustin) Hall
Thomas Haslen (Hazlen)
John Mason
Peter Wikoff
Joseph Wynkoop

James Madison
James Manning

 

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1786 Degrees conferred by the University of the State of Pennsylvania
 

Jonathan Williams Condy
William Bryant Duffield
Henry Keppele Helmuth
Hugh Holmes
Joseph Hopkinson
Robert Porter
Campbell Smith
Samuel Swift
Issac Telfair

John Gantt
John Griffin
Peter Hagner
Jacob Hoffner (Hofner)
John Leib
John McKinley
William [Davis] Robertson
John Wilcocks

David Griffith
Samuel Provost

 

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1787 Degrees conferred by the University of the State of Pennsylvania
 

Benjamin Franklin Bache
George Duffield
James Sergeant Ewing
James Mease
Samuel Harrison Smith
Evan William Thomas
Henry Wikoff
James Woodhouse

James Carson
Daniel Delaney (Delany)
David Holmes
William Sitgreaves

Benjamin Smith Barton

Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilberti Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

 

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A.M. (hon.)

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1788 Degrees conferred by the University of the State of Pennsylvania
 

Abijah Davis
Nathaniel Harris
William Hewson
Michael Keppele
WilliamWhite Morris
James Bowdoin Robins
James Patriot Wilson

Christopher Heydrick
James (or John) Kidd
George Pfeiffer (Pliffer)
[Frederick?] Shubart
______ Young

Robert Patterson

Robert Blackwell
Nicholas Collin

 

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1789 Degrees conferred by the University of the State of Pennsylvania
 

Josiah Bailey
George Morgan Baynton
William Boys[e]
John Davidson
Robert Gamble Waiters Davidson
Robert Frazer
Samuel Hazlehurst
Thomas Tickell Hewson
Marcus Hillegas Kuhl
George Lochman
Samuel McCulloch
Samuel Miller
Richard Renshaw
Andrew Rhea
Caeser Augustus Rodney
Benjamin Fuller West
George Williamson

[Samuel] Collings
_____ Davidson (or Davison)
Richard Duffield
_______ Forrest
_______ Halliday
____[James or Procepio] Pollock
John Christian Reidiger (Radiger, Rediger, Ridiger)
_____ Wilson

David Johnson
Samuel Kerr
Philip Reinhold Pauli

Edward Bass
Samuel Parker
Robert Smith

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