Portraits

Mary Katherine Goddard (June 16, 1738 – August 12, 1816) was an early American publisher and the first American postmistress. She was the first to print the Declaration of Independence with the names of the signatories.

Mary Goddard took control…

Joshua Van Sant (December 31, 1803 - April 8, 1884) was a United States Congressional representative from Maryland.
Born in Millington in Kent County, Maryland, he moved with his parents to Wilmington, Delaware, in 1807, and later to Philadelphia in…