. Baltimore : its history and its people . HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 559 ley, of Guilford, and leaving- a son. Nathaniel Meigs, born in 1729, whomarried Azenath Bishop, and left a son, Benjamin Stone Meigs, who dis-tinguished himself as a soldier; he was born in 1753, in St. Albans, Ver-mont, serving in several companies and regiments during the years from1777 to 1781, and being at Valley Forge. He married Roxana B. Chitten-den, and left a son, Luther Meigs, born at Highgate in 1792, and dyingin 1865. Then in the line appears Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, bornin 1740, one of the first to take up a
. Baltimore : its history and its people . HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 559 ley, of Guilford, and leaving- a son. Nathaniel Meigs, born in 1729, whomarried Azenath Bishop, and left a son, Benjamin Stone Meigs, who dis-tinguished himself as a soldier; he was born in 1753, in St. Albans, Ver-mont, serving in several companies and regiments during the years from1777 to 1781, and being at Valley Forge. He married Roxana B. Chitten-den, and left a son, Luther Meigs, born at Highgate in 1792, and dyingin 1865. Then in the line appears Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, bornin 1740, one of the first to take up arms in the Revolutionary struggle,who had a brilliant career as a soldier, rising to the rank of colonel. Hewas one of the founders of Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent whitesettlement in that State. In 1801 he was appointed Indian Agent for theCherokee Indians in Georgia, and spent the remainder of his life in thatState, discharging that duty. His son. Return Jonathan Meigs (II), born1764, was a lawyer, a judge, a soldier, governor of
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