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Excerpt from A Grandfather's Legacy: Containing a Sketch of His Life and Obituary Notices of Some Members of His Family, Together With Letters From His Friends
In 1788 he married Hannah Lemmon, of Baltimore County. The niece of Mrs. Jane Wilson.
In the same year he went from Baltimore, intending to go to George town, ou the head of the Potomac, and then to Richmond. With a ?ew to a permanent location. But on spending a few days in Georgetown. He was so favorably impressed with the activity and the business and commercial enterprise of the place - there being then in port ten square-rigged ves sels, two of them being ships - that be determined to remain there; and consequently abandoned his visit to Richmond. He was often heard to say that about that time he saw a small brig from Amsterdam taking in to bacco from a warehouse on Rock Creek, on the point below the P-strect bridge, formerly known as the Paper-mill Bridge. He brought his family to Georgetown and commenced the shoe and leather business on Congress street, below Bridge. Opposite the dwelling-house of the late illaim King, in a house rented from Robert Peter. In which he lived until. In he built the three-story brick house on Bridge street, now num bered 122, and which is at present owned by W. W. Corcoran.
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