A first-day issue of the 1976 US 9-cent postal card honoring Caesar Rodney, Continental Congressman and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Letter from John Dickinson and Thomas McKean, delegates to the Continental Congress, to Caesar Rodney, then President of Delaware. Writing at the direction of Congress, Dickinson and McKean request Rodney appoint a sufficient guard to take custody of sixty-four prisoners captured aboard the British sloop-of-war Harlem.