200 FORTY-FOUR YEARS OP 



After breakfast, our bills being settled, and all right, it 

 was agreed that my brother should accompany me as far 

 as the Monocacy. I had one of my little sons to drive 

 the team ; and we traveled on together so comfortably, 

 that it seemed but a short time until we came to the place 

 of parting, where we spent one more hour in affectionate 

 and brotherly intercourse; and then parted, with promises 

 to see each other as often as our circumstances would 

 admit. I then w^ent home with my load, sold it out, and 

 cleared three hundred dollars by my trip. 



Having discovered that I had a good site for a mill on 

 my farm, I undertook to build a grist-mill, v/hich was 

 much needed. By this time we had several new neigh- 

 bors — Captain Campbell, from Frederick county, with his 

 family, and son-in-law, James Cunningham : as also Dr. 

 James McHenry, of Baltimore, and John McHenry, who 

 settled at the Buffalo Marsh, and still live in the same 

 place. Captain Campbell agreed to build a saw-mill, if I 

 would build a grist-mill. He had a pair of country mill- 

 stones, but as he did not wish to start them, he proposed 

 to let me have them at cost, and take the pay in work ; so 

 I agreed to take them. I consulted one of my best friends 

 as to the cost of the mill, who told me that, with my own 

 labor and boarding the hands, it would cost at least four 

 hundred dollars. This alarmed me, but having got my- 

 self into it, I determined to go on ; and within six months 

 I had my mill running, and grinding all the grain raised 

 in the neighborhood. This was a great convenience to 

 the people, whose children had formerly to go ten miles 

 to mill, in all weathers. 



In the year 1826, I was notified to attend at Annapolis 

 on the 11th day of June, 1821, when a caveat case would 

 be heard be<tM en James Cunningham and myself I was 

 prepared with evei ything necessary for my triai This 



