- Author
- Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
- Date of Publication
- 1901
Quaker,
along with his uncle, bought a large
�tract of wild land on the Patapsco
river, in Maryland, in 1770, when An-
drew was sixteen years old, and four
years later, in 1774, erected dwellings
and mills on it, and then and there
founded the town of "Ellicott's Mills."
Young Ellicott was of a