John Vaughan (1756–1841)
John Vaughan, son of a merchant/planter, was born on 15 January 1756 in London, England. Following sojourns in Jamaica and France for training in the family business, he moved to Philadelphia, where he became a successful wine merchant and a prominent philanthropist.
"From George Washington to John Vaughan, 27 December 1791," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-09-02-0212. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 23 September 1791 – 29 February 1792, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 339.]
Roy Goodman and Pierre Swiggers, "John Vaughan (1756–1841) and the Linguistic Collection in the Library of the American Philosophical Society," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 138, Number 2 (June 1994), 251–72.
"John Vaughan (1756–1841)," Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia.
John Vaughan Papers, 1768–circa 1836, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
John Vaughan at Find a Grave.