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 the smallpox. Here the Rev. Jonathan Boucher brought "Jacky" Custis, to be "given the smallpox," and we find recorded in Washington's correspondence an account of Dr. Stevenson's charges of "2 pistoles and 25 s. for board." At the close of the century, the venerable doctor was one of the founders of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. When he came to Baltimore, the youth of the town already enjoyed the instruction of one schoolmaster, and there was demand for another.

MOUNT CLARE, 1760, RESIDENCE OF CHARLES CARROLL, BARRISTER.

Of Baltimore in this pre-Revolutionary period,