He always took an active part in politics, but was never a candidate for office, except, I believe, that he was the first Mayor of Georgetown.

He supported Jackson for the Presidency; but he was a Whig, a great admirer of Henry Clay, and never voted for any other democrat for high office after Jackson.
My mother's family lived in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, for several generations.

I have little information about her ancestors.

Her family took no interest in genealogy, so that my grandfather, who died when I was sixteen years old, knew only back to his grandfather.

On the other side, my father took a great interest in the subject, and in his researches, he found that there was an entailed estate in Windsor, Connecticut, belonging to the family, to which his nephew, Lawson Grant -- still living--was the heir.