Bend, Joseph Grove John, 1762-1812

The Rev. Dr. Joseph Bend served as Rector of St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Baltimore from 1791 to 1812. He married first, Elizabeth Boudinot Hatfield in Philadephia in 1790 while he was assistant minister of Christ Church, and they had nine children. After his family's move to Baltimore in 1791, they lived at the head of Liberty Street near Saratoga Street. He married Elizabeth B. Claypoole in Baltimore in 1807. He's buried at Old Saint Pauls Cemetery in Baltimore.

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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.