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Thomas Marsh Forman started as a Cadet to Captain John Stone's Company 1st Maryland Regiment. He was in Washington's army when it crossed the Delaware. by the end of the war he was a Colonel. In the War of 1812 he was a General in command of a Brigade of Maryland Militia and defended Baltimore in the War of 1812. He was in the Battles of Princeton, Brandywine, Monmouth and Valley Forge, at Green Tree Tavern. He represented Cecil County in the legislature in 1790, 1792, and 1800. He was the first president of the Maryland Jockey Club.
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