David Rittenhouse

Bankable bills from top: One of Franklin's anticounterfeiting leaf designs; a Colonial note designed by David Rittenhouse, later director of the U.S.

At Auction Jonathon Keats 2010

They were made from silver provided by then Mint Director David Rittenhouse, and intended to replace the Spanish, English, Dutch and French coins that dominated local commerce and “pocket change” of the post-Colonial era.

The World’s Most Valuable Coin: Cardinal Foundation buys First 1794 Silver Dollar for $7.85 Million : Coin Collecting News 2010

The only one derived from his familiar mercantile network was John Swanwick, but he was named receiver for Pennsylvania only after Morris made a personal appeal to David Rittenhouse, the mathematician and ardent Constitutionalist who was then serving a term as state treasurer.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Some, like the astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse, and Thomas Young, a physician and former protégé of Sam Adams in Boston, had been active in the early drive to unseat the old Assembly; others, including the painter Charles Willson Peale, had little political experience, but were attracted by the ideas of democracy and the “New Man,” freed of the corruption and social forms of the old world, that the Revolution promised to raise up.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

The committee roster betrayed the political nature of the inquiry; it included Charles Willson Peale and Timothy Matlack; David Rittenhouse, a renowned astronomer and mathematician serving as state treasurer; J. B. Smith, twice appointed to Congress by the radical Assembly; and Thomas Paine—all Continentalists.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

The committee roster betrayed the political nature of the inquiry; it included Charles Willson Peale and Timothy Matlack; David Rittenhouse, a renowned astronomer and mathematician serving as state treasurer; J. B. Smith, twice appointed to Congress by the radical Assembly; and Thomas Paine—all Continentalists.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Some, like the astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse, and Thomas Young, a physician and former protégé of Sam Adams in Boston, had been active in the early drive to unseat the old Assembly; others, including the painter Charles Willson Peale, had little political experience, but were attracted by the ideas of democracy and the “New Man,” freed of the corruption and social forms of the old world, that the Revolution promised to raise up.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

The only one derived from his familiar mercantile network was John Swanwick, but he was named receiver for Pennsylvania only after Morris made a personal appeal to David Rittenhouse, the mathematician and ardent Constitutionalist who was then serving a term as state treasurer.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

As in David Rittenhouse, a famous astronomer during the founding of America who worked closely with Ben Franklin and Benjamin Banneker.

The Atlantis Prophecy Thomas Greanias 2008

During the British occupation of Philadelphia, David Rittenhouse, then Treasurer for the state of Pennsylvania, stayed in the Henry home, as did Thomas Paine, who wrote his fifth Crisis there.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2008