1780 in Delaware

Decades:	1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s;
See also:	History of Delaware; Historical outline of Delaware; List of years in Delaware; 1780 in the United States;

This is a list of events in 1780 in Delaware.

Incumbents edit

January 15 – Cornelius P. Comegys, farmer and politician, 31st governor (d. 1851)
August 7 – Benjamin Ferris, watchmaker and historian (d. 1867)
October 17 – Thomas Beale Dorsey, farmer, lawyer, politician and judge (d. 1855)^[1]
December 24 – Willard Hall, attorney and politician (d. 1875)^[2]^[3]

August 19 – Johann de Kalb, Franconian-born French military officer (b. 1721)^{[citation needed]}

^ "Maryland State Archives". Retrieved 18 November 2013.
^ "Hall, Willard - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
^ "HALL, Willard 1780 – 1875". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
^ William David McCain, The Journal of Mississippi History (1979).
^ Montgomery 1851, p. 181.
^ "Petition of Elizabeth Montgomery, Report 317". The Reports of the Committees of the Senate of the United States for the Third Session of the Thirty-Fourth Congress. Washington. 1857. pp. 146–7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)