Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life and Services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams: Read Before the Maryland Historical Society on Thursday Evening, March 6, 1851 He was born in the county of Prince George's, in March, 1749. His parentage was highly respectable, his ancestors emi grating from Wales, and he being of the second generation after their settlement in Maryland. Had his days been wholly passed in the enjoyment of peace, his influence would not have been lost. He would still have left to his friends the same invaluable legacy of a good name, but it was his fortune to deserve and gain a wider celebrity. He was his father's oldest son, and in the year succeeding his birth, his home was changed to the mouth of the Conococheague Creek, in Frederick, near Washington county. In that beau tiful region of country, watered by the stream that lends its name to the valley, were spent the few short years of his boy hood. There he learned to love the aspect of fields and groves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.