British forces landed at Hallowing Point on July 21, 1814, took 21 slaves, and destroyed the home and barn of Colonel Benjamin Mackall, perhaps in retaliation for the house having been used by Calvert County militia. A contemporary newspaper reported that about 300 men landed at Hollowing Point, marched deliberately to Huntington seven miles away, burned the warehouse, and then returned without molestation. The war terrified plantation owners along the Patuxent. On June 15, 1814, at Benedict across the river, British raiders took 360 hogsheads of tobacco. In July they bombarded and then raided Sheridan Point three miles downriver, torching Doctor John Gray’s home. Upriver at Gods Grace, they claimed 13 additional hogsheads.