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The Garrigues family, represented in Philadelphia by gl^'^f^^., 

 William H. and Samuel E. Garrigues, traces its descent Descent 

 from the GaiTic family, of Monpellier, in Lauguedoc. At 

 the Eevocatiou, David Garric fled to England, where the 

 name became Garrick ; while another brother took refuge 

 in Germany, whence under the modified name of Gar- 

 rigues, his descendants established themselves in Phila- 

 delphia shortly after 1700. 



Richard De Charms, one of the best known Sweden- 

 borgian preachers of the first half of the century, who 

 held successful pastorates in Philadelphia, Baltimore and 

 New York, was born in Philadelphia in 1796. 



Abram Markos, or Marcou, was a distinguished resi- Abram 



' ' Marcou 



dent of the city prior to and during the Revolution. He 

 was born in the Danish West Indies in 1729, and was 

 descended from Count Marcou, a native of Montbeliard, 

 in French- Comte, who settled in the Antilles and became 

 a prosperous planter. Abram came to Philadelphia when 

 he was a young man and traded extensively between 

 Philadelphia and Santa Cruz, where he was largely in- 

 terested in raising sugar. He acquired a considerable 

 holding of real estate, one of his plots being the land on 

 which the government buildings now stand. In 1774 he 

 organized the company of light horse now so famous as 

 the "city troop" of Philadelphia, and became its first 

 captain. A year later he presented the company with a 

 silk flag, the first flag to bear the thirteen stripes sym- 

 bolical of the thirteen colonies struggling for freedom. 

 As he was a Danish subject, the neutrality proclamations 

 of the king of Denmark prevented him from taking an 

 active part in the Revolution. 



The Pennsylvania branch of the Chevalier family was The 

 founded by Pierre Chevalier, who settled in Philadelphia Chevaliers 

 in 1720. His father, of a noble family of Bretagne, fled 

 to England, where Pierre was born. Before emigrating 

 to this country, Pierre married an English lady. He 



