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the British at the Battle of North Point. It was only
a short time after this battle when one of the editors,
Thomas Bobbin, returned to the city to open the office.¹²³
The brother-in-law of Francis Scott Key, Judge Joseph
Hopper Nicholson, came in with Key's manuscript cf the
Star-Spangled Banner which was set in type, for the
first time, as a broadside with the title of Bombardment
at Fort McHenry¹²⁴ in the office cf the American.

There is extant one personal description of Pechin,
furnished by Colonel Nicholas Brewer of Baltimore:

He was about five feet five inches high, slight
and well knit, had black hair and eyes, was a good
liver, and a genial, pleasant gentleman,¹²⁵

Pechin's Baltimore residences were located en East
Baltimore and North Cplvert Streets; in addition he had
a country residence, Pilgrim's Choice, on Liberty Road.
He died in 1849, and was buried in the Lutheran Jurying
ground at Ardmore, Pennsylvania, His only son, Edwin
Anthony, died unmarried; five cf hia daughters married,
and his descendants are now living in many scattered
sections of the United States.¹²⁶

Alexander Martin; the First Two Years of the American.

The American and Daily Advertiser commenced its long ca-
reer on May 14, 1799, Alexander Martin, formerly Pechin's

123 Ingle, Edward op. cit. p. 3-13.

124 Lyons, J. H. Stories of our American patriotic

songs. p. 12.

125 Baltimore American March 8, 100.

126 Ingle, Edward. op cit. p. 17