Here are a lot of scraps of information which I've found on as many scraps of papers I've collected over the years. It relates to yesterday's query from Elizabeth Culhane of Fairport, New York and may give her some information she doesn't have. 1) An Edward Mattingly was inspector of customs at Georgetown in 1857. --Poore, Descriptive Catalog of Gov. Publications of U.S. II: 695 2) A George Mattingly purchased a square of land in Washington in 1854. --Poore, op.cit., I:647 3) Washington Miracle Refuted. (Library of Congress Rare Book Collection RZ406.M3 / W3) --This rare book deals with reputed cure of a Mrs. Ann Carbery Mattingly. 4) John England (then or later Bishop of Charleston SC), Examination of Evidence and Report... (Library of Congress Rare Book Collection RZ406.M3 / E 5) --This also deals with the reputed cure of a Mrs. Mattingly. 5) Letter of Rev. F.P. Kenrick [later archbishop of Baltimore] to Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith from Bardstown KY on 6 Aug. 1824. --Prop. Fide Documents Congressi: America Cent. Sect. X, v. p. 146 // 878 ff. 324 r-v, 325 r-v. (in Latin) refers to a miraculous cure of Anne Mattingly of Washington etc. 6) William Matthews, A collection of affidavits & certificates. (Library Rare Book Collection RZ406.M3 / M3 / toner coll.) --I think this also dealt with the reputed Mattingly miracle -- but I'm not sure of that 7) Mrs. Ann Mattingly was said to have been miraculously cured of cancer on 10 March 1823. She was originally Ann Carbery, sister of Thomas Carbery, mayor of Washington DC. --Catholic Standard (Washington DC) 18 Jan. 1961 p. 1, col. 1-6. 8) I don't have any reference for the following, but here it is anyhow. Somewhere I read: John Baptist Carbery (born ca 1700 in Ireland came to St. Mary, Md., via Boston, ca. 1730. He was the father of another John Baptist Carbery who married a Miss Thompson. They were the parents of Thomas and Henry Carbery. Thomas located in Georgetown [then still in Maryland I think] ca 1805 and died 12 July 1812 at the age of 67. He was married to Mary Asonath who died 2 Jan. 1819 at the age of 64. Henry was the adjutant general of Maryland and used the title Colonel. He was married to Sybilla ..... Thomas and Mary had 11 children a. Mary = Sr. Eleanora of St. Francis, Carmelite nun in Baltimore b. John Baptist c. Martha (who married a Catalana) d. Ruth e. Anne b. 17 March 1784, d. 9 March 1855, m. a John Mattingly who died ca 1824 (she was the one reportedly cured miraculously). They had a daughter and a son. Daughter was Mary Susan Mattingly who married Richard Lay. The son's name was not given [and could be the John that Ms. Culhane mentions. f. Joseph = who was a priest g. Captain Thomas b/ 26 June 1791, d. 23 May 1863 = the mayor h. James = a naval architect i. Lewis = a civil engineer and president of the levy court j. Ignatius Henry 9) The Thomas Carbery house was on the corner of 6th St. and S. Carolina Avenue. Thomas was the 6th mayor of Washington. He was a member of the levy court for westward of Rock Creek from 27 April 1831 till 4 May 1835 and of Georgetown from 4 May 1835 till 6 May 1861. 10) James L. Carbery was on the court from 6 May 1861 to 17 May 1862. [from this bit of information, I suspect that maybe h. and i. on the above list might have been the same person. __________________________ This was a very prominent Washington family at the time, and I suspect that much of the above information comes from various history books of Washington. And I probably saw them at the Library of Congress.