Winchester, George, 1787-1840

George Winchester was a Baltimore attorney with premises at the corner of St. Paul's Lane and Chatham Street. He was the son of Col. William Winchester and Mary Polly Parks. He married Nancy "Ann" Owings in 1809, and they had at least two children; he next married Maria Campbell Ridgely in 1827. In the 1810 U.S. Census, he lived in a household of seven people, none enslaved. He served as President of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad and was also a steamboat owner. During the Baltimore Riots of 1812, Winchester holed up in the home of one of the owners of the Federal Republican as a defender against the mob.

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[Letter from Littleton Dennis Teackle to Charles Nicoll Bancker, July 28, 1812, Vol. 3]

Letter from Littleton Dennis Teackle to Charles Nicoll Bancker. The letter is from Vol. 3 of Charles N. Bancker's correspondence journal. Littleton gives a detailed recount of the riot that occurred in Baltimore on July 27, 1812. Anti-war articles written by Alexander Contee Hanson in the Federal Republican newspaper caused riots against the newspaper. The riot and events occurring afterwards were violent and resulted in the death of at least one man, Dr. Gale. Littleton includes an additional note with some of the names of the men involved.