Agriculture along the Potomac changed through the techniques Dr. John H. Bayne used to produce fresh fruit and vegetables for the nation’s capital. After ceasing to fight for compensation to Maryland slaveholders for emancipation, he continued to serve the public, and when he died in 1870 he left his property to his wife and children and his legacy to the people he served. Maryland emancipation allowed African-descended people to live independently. Some, such as the newly freed Benjamin Addison, moved with his free wife, Louisa Magruder, and their six children to Massachusetts. Others, including Augustus and Linly Berry and their children, remained in the Potomac Valley and formed communities such as Chapel Hill. They worked mostly as tenant farmers or servants, worshiped openly at St. John’s Episcopal Church Broad Creek or established new congregations, and married legally, learned to read and write, attended school, bought land, and voted.