Lt. Col. Nathaniel Ramsay

Nathaniel Ramsay, a native of Pennsylvania, was a Princeton graduate in 1767, a lawyer, a member of the Council of Safety, and a courageous officer of the Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War. After his marriage in 1771 to Margaret Jane Peale, he settled in a brick house near this site. In 1775 he and his brother-in-law, the portrait painter and inventor Charles Willson Peale, conducted experiments here in manufacturing gunpowder. Serving under Washington in 1778, Ramsay was wounded at Monmouth, New Jersey, and taken prisoner by the British. After the war he served two terms in Congress.

Charlestown, Maryland · United States