On December 29, 1824, General Lafayette was received at the Monocacy (Jug) Bridge by many Frederick dignitaries, including Lawrence Everhart, who had carried a wounded Lafayette from the Brandywine Battlefield during the Revolutionary War, and taken to town with great pomp and circumstance. On December 29, 1830, six members of the John Newby 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. 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 (wasps65@earthlink.net)