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Hopkinson and William Paca were graduates. John 

 Nixon, who was the first to read publicly the Declara- 

 tion to the people, was a trustee. Among the framers 

 of the Constitution of the United Sates, the names of 

 Franklin, Wilson, Morris and Clymer reappear with 

 those of Thomas Mifflin, Jared Ingersoll, Thomas Fit- 

 zimmons. Trustees, and Hugh Williamson, who was a 

 professor of mathematics. Of the Continental Congress, 

 there were two presidents, Mifflin and McKean; Duche, 

 the first chaplain, was the professor of oratory and a 

 trustee, while of the members who were graduates, there 

 were Andrew Allen, William Bingham and Richard 

 Peters of Pennsylvania, Philemon Dickinson of Dela- 

 ware, Henry Marchant of Rhode Island, Whitmel Hill 

 of North Carolina, William Grayson of Virginia, 

 Joshua Seney of Maryland, John Neilson and Jonathan 

 Dickinson Sergeant of New Jersey. The second chap- 

 lain to the Continental Congress was William White, 

 a graduate of the class of 1765, first bishop of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church 

 of the United States from 1796 to 1836; of soldiers in 

 the Continental Army, there were General Peter Gabriel 

 Muhlenburg of the class of 1763, who stripped his 

 clerical gown from his shoulders in the pulpit to reveal 

 his uniform to astonished eyes; General John Cad- 

 walader, a trustee, who fought a duel with Conway, the 

 head of the Conway cabal against Washington; Colonel 



