Excerpt from Sketch of the Life of Dr. James McHenry, Aide-De-Camp and Private Secretary of General Washington, Aide-De-Camp of Maquis De La Fayette, Secretary of War From 1796 to 1800: A Paper Read Before the Maryland Historical Society, November 13th, 1876Colonies, and came to Baltimore about the year 17771. He was so much struck with the promise which the new country held out, that he wrote to his father urging him to emigrate, and follow ing his advice, his father came out not long after wards with his younger son John, and established himself in trade on Lovely Lane, in Baltimore. Here his affairs grew with the' rapid growth Of 2 5.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.