seat by the incumbent Federalist James A. Bayard. Death and legacy Patten died at his home, Tynhead Court, near Dover, and is buried in the Old Presbyterian Cemetery, which is at Dover, on the grounds of the Delaware State Museum. He had a home on the north side of Front Street, between Orange and Tatnall Streets in Wilmington, Delaware, but was always a legal resident of Kent County. He was active in the Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture, the Society of the Cincinnati, and the Lyceum of Delaware. Almanac Elections were held October 1. Members of the General Assembly took office on October 20 or the following weekday. The State Assemblymen were elected for a one-year term. They chose the Continental Congressmen for a one-year term. U.S. Representatives took office March 4 and have a two-year term. After 1792 elections were moved to the first Tuesday of October and members of the General Assembly took office on the first Tuesday of January. The State Legislative Council was renamed the State Senate and the State House of Assembly was renamed the State House of Representatives. Notes References Images Portrait courtesy of the Delaware Public Archives. External links Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress Delaware's Members of Congress The Political Graveyard Society of the Cincinnati A merican Revolution Institute Places with more information Delaware Historical Society; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161 University of Delaware; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965 Historical Society of Pennsylvania website 1300 Locust St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (215) 732-6200. 1746 births 1800 deaths American Presbyterians People from Dover, Delaware Farmers from Delaware Continental Army officers from Delaware American Revolutionary War prisoners of war held by Great Britain Members of the Delaware House of Representatives Continental Congressmen from Delaware 18th-century American politicians Burials in Dover, Delaware Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Delaware People of colonial Delaware Members of the United States House of Representatives removed by contest