Lt. Col. Nathaniel Ramsay
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Lt. Col. Nathaniel Ramsay Member of Council of Safety and courageous officer of the Maryland Line in Revolutionary War. Native of Pennsylvania, Princeton graduate (1767) and lawyer, he settled in brick house near this site after his marriage in 1771 to Margaret Jane Peale. In 1775 he and his brother-in-law, famed portrait painter and inventor Charles Willson Peale, conducted experiments here in manufacture of gunpowder.
Serving under Washington in 1778, Ramsay was wounded at Monmouth, N.J. and taken prisoner by the British. After the war he served two terms in congress. Maryland Bicentennial Commission and Maryland Historical Society
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