death_date death_place children birth_place nationality name parents birth_date article_title birth_name
9 april 1832 ellicott city , maryland martha ellicott city , maryland american ellicott , george joseph ellicott -lrb- miller -rrb- 28 march 1760 george ellicott
 ellicott , george
george ellicott

george ellicott -lrb- 1760 -- 1832 -rrb- was a son of andrew ellicott , one of the founders of ellicott 's mill -lrb- now ellicott city -rrb- , maryland .
after the colonial war he bought swampland now known as the inner harbor of baltimore where he used a horse drawn dredge to create shipping docks for his flour supplies .
the stone home he built in 1789 and lived in for forty years stands by the patapsco river in oella , maryland .
it was moved from its original location to higher ground across the street in 1983 .
in 1799 george traveled to the plains of sandusky , where the crawford expedition had met with defeat seventeen years prior .
merchants would conduct a yearly meeting , reporting back to congress .
in 1801 , george ellicott and his brother elias visited washington , d.c. with a native american contingent where he spoke with the secretary of war and president john adams where a pledge was made to try to stop the distribution of liquor to native americans .
in 1806 , chief little turtle of the miami people , chief of the rusheville people , beaver crow of the delawares , chiefs of the shawanese , and the chief raven of the potowatomies visited his home while returning from a visit to washington , d.c.
