Charles Ridgely III [SEP] date of death
Charles Ridgely III
Captain Charles Ridgely III (1733–1790) was a colonial Maryland planter and ironmonger.
Biography.
Ridgely was born in Maryland Province in 1733 to Colonel Charles Ridgely II (1702-1772), ("Charles the Merchant") and Rachel Howard. With his father and brother, he established the Northampton Iron Works just north of future Towsontown /Towson, under what is now Loch Raven Reservoir. He married Rebecca Dorsey, the daughter of Caleb Dorsey, an ironmonger in Anne Arundel County.
Ridgely
1814 until his death 1846.
Career Founding of the Washington Jockey Club.
In 1802, the Washington Jockey Club sought a new sight for the track that lay the rear of what is now the site of Decatur House at H Street and Jackson Place, crossing Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue to Twentieth Street-today the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Van Ness, along with John Tayloe III and Charles Carnan Ridgely and the support of Dr. William Thornton, G. W. P. Custis, John D. Threlkeld of Georgetown, and George Calvert