John Dickinson

John Dickinson

               John Dickinson was three years older than John Adams and when Adams was choosing his profession and starting school John was already three years into his law studies. John was from a prominent family that owned lots of land in the new world and was his father’s son from a second marriage and his father wanted his children to be well off. He loved his parents and while in London he wrote them letters calling the "honoured". He was very loving and affectionate towards them and very respectful. Once he had been there for a while he found that there were things in London that he didn’t see or do back home in America. He wrote to his parents asking to extend his stay in London saying things like he could see and talk to way more people than back home and that he learned more than he did back home. He thought that owning slaves made a person more selfish and angry and cruel than others of the colonial time. He wrote letters to William Pitt during the Stamp act time and was shaped into politics from the way he saw the world.