On December 29, 1824, General Lafayette was received at the Monocacy (Jug) Bridge by many Frederick dignitaries and taken to town with great pomp and circumstance. Among the dignitaries was Lawrence Everhart, who had carried a wounded Lafayette from the Brandywine Battlefield near Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War. On December 29, 1830, six members of the John Newey household in Harbaugh Valley west of Thurmont were stabbed to death and their home burned to the ground. John Markley was executed for the crime on June 24, 1831, on the Barracks Grounds on South Market Street. Years later it was determined that Markley was not the guilty party, but rather the owner on the farm next to the Newey place. If anyone can add information to these History Moments, or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day, please contact me privately. John W. Ashbury Wasps1965@comcast.net <mailto:Wasps1965@comcast.net>