Nicholas Van Dyke (U
Nicholas Van Dyke may refer to: * Nicholas Van Dyke (politician, born 1738) (1738–1789), American lawyer and Governor of Delaware, father of the U.S. Senator * Nicholas Van Dyke (politician, born 1769) Nicholas Van Dyke (December 20, 1769 – May 21, 1826) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Attorney General of Delaware, as U.S ...

Nicholas Van Dyke (politician, Born 1738)
Nicholas Van Dyke (September 25, 1738 – February 19, 1789) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, in the Continental Congress, where he signed the Articles of Confederation, and as president of Delaware. Early life and family Van Dyke was born at ''Berwick,'' his family's home in St. George's Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, near the present location of Delaware City. He was the son of Nicholas and Rachael Alee Van Dyke, whose father, Andrew Van Dyke, had moved there from Long Island in New York in 1704. Young Nicholas was educated at home, then read law in Philadelphia where he was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1765. Van Dyke returned to New Castle where he lived with his family and began a law practice. He married twice, first in 1766 to Elizabeth Nixon who died in 1770, two weeks after the birth of Nicholas. After her death he married Charlotte St ...
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