On September 20, 1737, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was born in Annapolis. He was the only Roman Catholic to sign The Declaration of Independence. At various times he owned vast tracts of land in Frederick County and was considered the wealthiest of all the signers of the most significant document in our nation's history. On September 20, 1806, the first vestry of St. Mark's Episcopal Parish at Petersville was elected. On September 20, 1814, The Baltimore Patriot became the first newspaper to publish Francis Scott Key's poem "The Defence of Ft. McHenry." On September 20, 1838, Thomas Jackson, of Cape Palmas, addressed a crowd at the Evangelical Lutheran Church on East Church Street in Frederick on the colonization program. He left Frederick for Africa in 1831. (The independent African state of Maryland was founded at Cape Palmas in 1833 and was annexed by Liberia in 1857.) On September 20, 1876, the Junior Fire Company put the first steam engine in service in Frederick. It was built by the Silsbury Manufacturing Company of Seneca Falls, N. Y. On September 20, 1909, the Rev. Osborne Ingle, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church on West Church Street in Frederick for 43 years, died at the church rectory on Record Street. On September 20, 1952, George T. Bruchey, Jr., 13, of 474 West South Street, Frederick, was killed when he rode his bicycle into the side of a tractor-trailer on West Patrick Street hill, just east of Jefferson Street. 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 <mailto:Wasps1965@comcast.net> Wasps1965@comcast.net