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	Gabriel Duvall Duvall, Gabriel (b. Prince Georges County, Md., 6 Dec. 1752; d. Prince Georges County, 6 March 1844; interred at family estate, Glen Dale, Prince Georges County); associate justice, 1811–1835. Although he held the office for almost twenty‐five years, Duvall is one of the least... Read more
	Thomas Johnson Thomas Johnson 1732-1819, American political leader, b. Calvert co., Md. A lawyer, he served (1762-73) in the Maryland colonial assembly, where he became prominent in the fight against the Stamp Act (1765). He was a member (1774-77) of the Continental Congress, and he nominated (1775) George... Read more
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	Michael Cresap Cresap, Michael (1742–75) frontiersman and Revolutionary War soldier, born in Old Town, Maryland. As captain of a rifle company from Frederick County, Maryland, Cresap marched with “Cresap's Rifles” 550 miles in twenty-five days, joining the Continental army at Boston (1775).... Read more
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	Daniel Kirkwood Kirkwood, Daniel (b. Harford County, Maryland, 27 September 1814; d. Riverside, California 11 June 1895) astronomy. Of Scots-Irish descent, Kirkwood was the son of John Kirkwood, a farmer, and Agnes Hope. He spent his formative years on his father Read more

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