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Jacob Duche was born on January 31, 1737, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Colonel Jacob Duche, a prosperous Philadelphian, at one time mayor of the city, and his wife Mary Spence.
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Jacob Duche was born on January 31, 1737, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Colonel Jacob Duche, a prosperous Philadelphian, at one time mayor of the city, and his wife Mary Spence.
Duche was graduated with the first class of the College of Philadelphia, in 1757. After a year at Cambridge University, he returned to Philadelphia in 1759.
In 1759 with deacon's orders, Duche became teacher of oratory at the college and assistant rector of the united parishes of Christ Church and St. Peter's. In 1762 he went to England for ordination, and in 1775 he succeeded the Reverend Richard Peters as rector of the united churches. He soon became one of the most popular preachers in the city, but two of his early sermons, The Life and Death of the Righteous, and Human Life, a Pilgrimage, published in 1763 and 1771 respectively, suggest that his reputation owed more to fervor of delivery than to depth or originality of thought.
Duche early displayed literary ambitions. As an undergraduate he wrote some verse, the most ambitious example of which is Pennsylvania, a Poem, published by Franklin Hall in 1756. In 1762 there was published An Exercise on the accession of George III, which he and Hopkinson had written for the college commencement of that year. Beginning in March 1772, he published in the Pennsylvania Packet a series of twenty letters over the signature "Tamoc Caspipina, " a pseudonym derived from the initial letters of the words "the assistant minister of Christ Church and St. Peter's in Philadelphia in North America. " Though trite and commonplace, these letters evidently found readers, for in 1774 he republished them in a volume entitled Observations on a Variety of Subjects, Literary, Moral and Religious. Later they were reprinted in Philadelphia, Bath, London, Dublin, and Leipzig, sometimes under the original title, sometimes as Caspipina's Letters. With some of the later editions was included another work, "The Life and Character of William Penn. "
At the beginning of the Revolution, Duche showed such zeal for liberty that he was made chaplain of the Continental Congress. In 1775 he published two patriotic sermons, The Duty of Standing Fast in Our Spiritual and Temporal Liberties, and The American Vine, the former of which was dedicated to Washington. After the Declaration of Independence, however, he began to lose his enthusiasm, and when Howe took Philadelphia and put him in jail, he experienced a complete change of heart. On October 8, 1777, he wrote Washington a letter in which he severely criticized the Americans and predicted their defeat. He advised the General to urge Congress to recall the Declaration of Independence, and if they should refuse, to negotiate for peace at the head of his army. Washington turned this letter over to Congress, and the members of that body soon disseminated the news of their chaplain's treachery throughout the thirteen. Those whose hearts had thrilled to Duche's eloquence cursed him as a traitor, and even Hopkinson wrote him a burning letter of protest.
Finding life in Philadelphia unendurable, Duche sailed for England in December 1777. The following year the Pennsylvania Assembly proscribed him and confiscated his property, but allowed his family enough money to enable them to join him in England. There he was rewarded for his recantation by being made secretary and chaplain of an orphan asylum at St. George's Fields, Lambeth Parish, but he never ceased to pine for America. He wrote to Washington and to many prominent Philadelphians, begging for permission to return, but it was not until May 1792 that the exiles at last came home.
Although Duche had suffered a stroke of paralysis before leaving England, he lived until January 3, 1798.
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In his later days Duche became a convert to the teachings of Swedenborg. This second change of principles and certain eccentricities that he manifested as he grew older caused some of his acquaintances to question his sanity, and hence to judge him more leniently than they once had done.
A portrait of Duche and his wife (now in the Hopkins Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania), painted by their son, Thomas Spence, gives one a very favorable impression of their appearance. Both had regular and handsome features, expressing kindliness and intelligence, and both had an unmistakable air of culture and refinement.
On June 19, 1759, Jacob Ducher was married to Elizabeth Hopkinson, the sister of his friend and classmate, Francis Hopkinson. His wife died as the result of an accident, on May 22, 1797.
