Family
On June 23, 1813 he married Margaretta Watmough, daughter of James Horatio Watmough and Anna Carmick. With Margaretta he fathered ten children, including a daughter, Margaretta (June 26, 1814 – January 7, 1886) who married Major General George G. Meade, Commander of the Union Army of the Potomac from the Battle of Gettysburg until the end of the Civil War, and another daughter, Sarah Sergeant (September 24, 1817 – October 14, 1850) who married Henry A. Wise.
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