George Gordon was a Scottish merchant and wealthy landowner who owned the Gordon's Rock Creek Plantation on land that eventually became part of

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In the 1740s, Gordon built an inspection house for

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on the plantation. Knave's Disappointment, part of his landholdings, was surveyed in 1752 as a possible site for George Town (now Georgetown).

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offered Gordon two lots in the town, along with the "price of condemnation" (remuneration). Gordon accepted two lots (number 48 and 52). Maryland paid a total of 280 pounds to acquire the land from Gordon, along with land owned by

George Beall George Beall, Jr. (February 26, 1729 – October 15, 1807) was a wealthy landowner in Maryland and Georgetown in what is now Washington, D.C., son of George Beall, Sr. (1695-1780) and Elizabeth Brooke (1699-1748); the grandson son of Col. Ninian ...

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