William Few, one of Georgia's signers of the United States Constitution, lived on this site in a house built in 1781 that burned in 1930. Born near Baltimore, Maryland, on June 8, 1748, he moved to Augusta, Georgia, in 1776 and began practicing law. During the next twenty years, he served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Richmond County Militia during the Revolution, a member of the State House of Assembly from original Richmond County, a member of the Executive Council, presiding Judge of the Richmond County Court, surveyor general of Georgia, a member of the Continental Congress, an original trustee for establishing the University of Georgia, a delegate to the convention that drafted the Federal Constitution, a United States Senator, and Judge of the Superior Court of Georgia, Middle Judicial Circuit. In 1799 he moved to New York City, where he served as a member of the New York Assembly, State prison inspector, city alderman, United States Commissioner on loans, director of the Manhattan Bank, and president of the City Bank. He died at the home of his son-in-law, Major Albert Chrystie, in Fishkill, New York, on July 15, 1826.