19 Facts About Uriah Forrest

Uriah Forrest was an American statesman and military leader from Maryland.

Uriah Forrest served in varying roles within the Maryland Line.

Uriah Forrest was injured at the Battle of Germantown where he lost a limb.

Uriah Forrest was one of the three commissioners, the others being William Paca and Clement Hollyday, to confiscate holdings of such property, which was later apportioned out and sold to certain individuals.

Uriah Forrest returned to Maryland in 1783 to establish a tobacco export business in Georgetown, with business partners Benjamin Stoddert and John Murdock and then returned to London.

In 1784, Uriah Forrest was admitted as an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland.

Uriah Forrest was elected to the Maryland State House of Delegates in numerous terms and served from 1781 to 1783,1786 to 1787, and 1787 to 1790, as a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1796 to 1800, and a State Court Judge from 1799 to 1800.

Uriah Forrest represented St Mary's County in most of the 1780s and then Montgomery County and in the Maryland Senate represented the Western Shore of Maryland.

Uriah Forrest served as churchwarden of St Andrew's Parish within St Mary's County, justice in Montgomery County.

Uriah Forrest owned five black slaves in 1790, which had increased to nine by 1801.

Uriah Forrest was active in politics by representing Maryland as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787.

Uriah Forrest would be nominated to be a US senator the following year.

Uriah Forrest stayed a "friend and host to George Washington," cementing his role in the Federalist Party and national politics.

In 1795, Uriah Forrest was commissioned a brigadier general of Maryland Militia's Fourth Brigade in 1795 and major general of the Maryland Militia's First Division from 1795 to 1801.

In 1794 Uriah Forrest would build a home near Washington, DC, called Rosedale.

Uriah Forrest served in a local governmental position in his late life.

Uriah Forrest died on July 6,1805, in the parlor of the Rosedale's farmhouse and was buried in the Presbyterian Burying Ground in Washington, DC His remains were later disinterred, and he was reburied at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Uriah Forrest's estate was "still plagued with debt" after his death and was almost lost "to debts and litigation" but kept in the family for many years to come.

Uriah Forrest would marry Don Angel Maria de Iturbide y Huarte, an "exiled prince of the Mexican imperial line and a student at Georgetown University," and have a son named Don Agustin, Prince of Iturbide, the heir of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and prince of the First and Second Mexican Empires, making Forrest his great-grandfather.