A portrait painter and dancing teacher, William Dering lived in Philadelphia from 1735 to about 1740; Williamsburg, Virginia, from 1740 to 1749; and Charleston, South Carolina from 1749. Nothing is known about him until he appeared in Philadelphia in 1735, opened a dancing school and advertised as a dancing master. He also "advised he would teach reading, writing, sewing and French."
By 1740, he was in Williamsburg, Virginia and was teaching dancing in what was described as th (showing 500 of 1592 characters). |
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