Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-03-21
The Governor ) Mansion
Stands IN Historic Ground

SELF an when the tide changed Il listed
and one side OF her batteries pOsnted
skynard ana the other glide seward
and were thus made useless. 80 tie
shin was captured and oil the OGaoera
placed IN prison IN Tripoii One
midnight drcaTy. the young Amer
lean Surgeon received this saaguinsTgi
message from the Bey: Come ont
and cure my daughter Or ha killed. 4
Now this lady was daughter rs the
fayorite wife Of the Bey. OF course
nailder message would hare hid the
same effect nnon the physician, but
slisFegarding forms DE speech, Surgeon
Ridgeiy repaired TO the home Of the,
sick lady, and, under the blessings Of
lie Almighty. bis professional minis
lrasions were successful, and she was
restored 10 health.
The Esay was then very grateful.
ana offered his daughter IN marriage
to the Surgeon. This he declined.
The Bey then proposed that DR.. Ridge
Ii have the freedom OF the city. This
oifer the Surgeon refused unless his
brother officers were also given the
SANG liberty Thereapon the Bey
granted the freedom OF the City OF
Trinoli to all the American officers.
After the war was over, Or, Ridgely
was made Minister to TriioH, and the
letter he wrote to the Surgeon .
mother saying that the Beg had given
him summer house. outside OF the
city Of Tripoli, In which to live. Is
still In Annapolis in possession Of one
OF this estimable lady's descendants
When DR.. Ridgely left his post az
Minister to Tripoli. the Bey pursued
, Rim with his kindness, and amongst
the presents he gave to his departing
friend was a white Arabian horse. I
remember one OF the Surgeons nieces
pointing out the grounds on which the
late John II. Snllivan's house on Duke
or Gloucester street now stands. and
saying: Il remember the afternoon
the horse tnat the Rey of TripOii gave
Uncle john, lied on thisSlot.'
Surgeon Rifgeiy returned TO Anna
polls and married the lady OF his
choice Miss Harriet Callahan. The
house in which she lived was removed
when the Court of Appeals Building
was erected and now stands on st
Johns street. adjoining the College
Avenue baptist Church,
John Ridgely followed his father in
the ownership OF the Ridgely resi-
dence. He practiced medicine as the
partner OF the late DR.. John Ridout.
and about 1880 removed to Mount
Vernon. Ohio Ten years later he re-
turned to Maryland He died Novem-
Der S., lS42.
Mistress Anna Robinson Ridgely
'This recital would be wanting in a
noble part were 1t 70 end without :
note memorial Of her. who with grace.
dignity and transformations piety, pre-
sided over her stately home Anna
Robinson was the daughter of David
Robinson and Anna Hawkins, who
was the daughter OF Matthew Haw-
kins, Iineai descendant OF Sir John
Hawkins, the Admiral IN the British
Navy, who commanded the rear
squadron or the English feet in its
battle with the Spanish Armada. Mrs.
Ridgely lived to see her sons and
daughters grow to manhood and wo-
manhood. become useful members oF
society. contract marriages with the
superior people Of the State while
two at least wrought their names IN
the history OF their country Her
memory and mental faculties remain
ed clear to the last. She died an April
IS. 1876, in her 96th year. leiosod and
revcraa by her offspring and friends
Mrs James Andrews, nee Merfyniar
late OF this city, Iii speaking, III tes'-
derest tones. to the author of this Of
this venerable woman whom she
knew, said: airs. fsidgely was born
a lady. and always was lady"
CORRECTION. The FIRST sentence
OF the second installmont of this. ar
ticle should read: This vas in 1866; :