12.9.1796 call on Wignell with Cooper
Thomas Wignell d.1803 manager of Chestnut Street theatre, Philadelphia (see American National Biography Anne Merry, or Highfill Burnim and Langhans Anne Wignell). He came to England to recruit actors and sailed back to America with Thomas Abthorpe Cooper and the Merrys, became Anne Merry's second husband in 1803 and died seven weeks later having fathered a child.