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15th Cloudy morning, but clear’d up at midday – Wind West Went to Town, return’d to Dinner, afterwards Rode to Furley Orchard & mark’d several Trees to cut for Fencing. Beautiful mild, clear evening ~
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, February 15, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
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14th – Disagreeable day & some Rain at intervals, wind S.E. Went to Town, din’d at Gl. Ridgelys
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, February 14, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
On February 14, 1814, John Merryman died in Baltimore at age 77. Born on February 16, 1736 on the 1000-acre “Hereford Farm,” Merryman moved to Baltimore Town around 1763 and built a home on Calvert Street just south of Baltimore Street.
In 1774, he helped to found the “Baltimore Town Committee of Observation,” one of many citizen groups organized around the beginning of the American Revolution to challenge the weakening authority of the British Colonial government. Merryman was commissioned as a Justice for Baltimore County in 1778 and served as a judge for the Orphan’s Court of Baltimore County in 1784. He survived by his wife Sarah Rogers Smith and four children.
Source: Browne, William Hand, and Louis Henry Dielman. 1915. Maryland Historical Magazine. Maryland Historical Society. p. 286-287.
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Feby 13th – Sunday – Rain this morng. Win chang’d at 12 O’Clock to W. clear evening. Staid at home all day, no company. Finish’d Pruning Furley Orchards last evening, it has taken four hands about five weeks
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, February 13, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
12th – Clear morng. Wind N.W. and high but chang’d at 12 O’Clock to S.E. Went to Town din’d with Jo. Patterson, roads very bad, cloudy evening ~
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, February 12, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
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11th – Clear’d up this morning at Sunrise, Wind N.W. & high. Went to Town return’d to dinner
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, February 11, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.