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Frederick County by 1751; he served as a justice
of Frederick County, 1756-1775, and was one of
three commissioners chosen in 1751 to lay out
Georgetown, Frederick County. MOTHER: Eliz-
abeth Lamar (?-1803). BROTHERS: (first name
unknown), scalped by Indians on March 4, 1756;
George (1756-1852), a physician who practiced
in Newton, Federick County, Virginia, and who
married Nancy Venables; and David (1758-1835),
a captain in the Revolutionary War and member
of the Lower House from Allegany County in
1794 and 1795, who married Mary Galloway of
Anne Arundel County. SISTERS: Jane (1747-?);
Sarah (1749-?); Elizabeth (1750-?), who mar-
ried (first name unknown) Magruder; Rosalie
(1753-?); and Catherine (1756-?). MARRIED on
February 26, 1784, Eleanor (1762-ca. 1821),
daughter of Christopher Edelin (?-ca. 1786) and
wife Rebecca Johnson. Her sisters were Elizabeth
(1760-1832), who married Mountjoy Bayly (1755-
1836); Rebecca (1765-?), who married John
Hodge Bayard. CHILDREN. DAUGHTERS. Eliza-
beth, who married David Richardson; Jane (?-
1835), who never married. PRIVATE CAREER. ED-
UCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION, his
brother David was an Anglican. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: surveyor; also possibly a planter in his
later years. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERV-
ICE: Lower House, Washington County, 1788,
1789. LOCAL OFFICE: justice, Allegany County,
1791-at least 1811; Maryland Senate elector, Al-
legany County, 1801. MILITARY SERVICE: enlisted
as an ensign with the Sixth Maryland Regiment,
May 26, 1779; commissioned a lieutenant June 1,
1779, and transferred to the Fifth Maryland Reg-
iment on January 1, 1781; served in the Southern
Army of the U.S. in the 4th Company of the 2nd
Battalion of Capt. Williams' Regiment of Infan-
try; wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, South
Carolina, September 8, 1781; captain by March
15, 1783; served until July 10, 1784, Fifth Regi-
ment; colonel at death. OUT OF STATE SERVICE:
presidential elector, 1796. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRI-
VATE ISSUES: involved in a political dispute with
Gen. Daniel Heister in the early 1800s. Heister,
who was a candidate for Congress in 1801, felt
that even though French seizures of American
vessels justified war, a declaration of war would
be inexpedient. Lynn claimed that Heister stated
the French had grounds for taking ninety-eight
out of every hundred ships they had captured
from the Americans, and that paying tribute to
the French by allowing them to seize American
vessels, without protest, was wrong. He felt that
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"a nation that weighs her purse against her honor
never fails to lose both." Among other accusa-
tions which Lynn made was a claim that General
Heister favored a post road which would benefit
his land, and that it was not the high price of
produce which hurt the farmers, but the high rents
for farms charged by landowners such as Heister.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY
4 slaves, 1790. ANNUAL INCOME: from November
1785 received half pay of a lieutenant, about
£200.0.0 annually, for his war-related disability.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: controlled half of a 131 -
acre tract in Frederick County, which his wife
inherited from her father; also leased on a life
tenancy three lots in Washington Town, Wash-
ington County (later became Cumberland, Al-
legany County). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND
BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: Sold his
wife's inherited land in 1789; sublet in 1792 two
of the three lots which he had held on a lifetime
tenancy since 1785; by 1792 he purchased 4 sol-
diers' lots in Allegany County and sold them the
same year; purchased part of a lot in Cumberland
in 1796, which he sold the same year; patented
with three others in 1796 a tract of undisclosed
acreage in Allegany County, but sold his one-
fourth undivided part the same year; purchased
a 1,000-acre tract in Allegany County in 1806,
and sold 500 acres of it the same year, then be-
tween 1806 and 1813 sold another portion of un-
disclosed acreage for $3,500; purchased in 1812
a lot in Cumberland that he had been leasing since
1808. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: on March 18, 1813,
of pleurisy; buried in Frederick County. PER-
SONAL PROPERTY: size of estate unknown. LAND:
owned one lot in Cumberland, Allegany County,
plus an undetermined amount of acreage (less
than 500 acres); possibly still leased one lot in
Cumberland on a lifetime tenancy.
MACCUBBIN, NICHOLAS (1750/51-1812). See
CARROLL, NICHOLAS (MACCUBBIN).
MACKALL, BENJAMIN (1675-1761). BORN: in
1675 in Calvert County; youngest son. NATIVE:
second generation. RESIDED: in Calvert County.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: James Mackall
(1630-1693), who immigrated from Scotland as
an indentured servant, and was free by 1668; il-
literate. MOTHER: Mary Grahame (by 1649-1718).
BROTHERS: John Mackall (1669-1739); James
Mackall (1671-1717). SISTERS: Ann (ca. 1661-?),
who married first, Andrew Tannehill (?-1694),
second, John Taney, third, Robert Skinner (?-ca.
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