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Note: John Stitcher was a cabinetmaker, who partnered with Jacob Clemens at 35 South Street, Baltimore. He married Sarah Clemens, sister of Jacob, on March 25, 1802, at the Zion Lutheran Church, Baltimore. The Reverend Kurtz, one of many of the cloth, with that surname, in Maryland and Pennsylvania, officiated. On January 18, 1806, John was elected Hoseman in the New Market Fire Company, Eutaw Street, near Lexington. Matchett's Baltimore Directory of 1833, shows John Stitcher, cabinetmaker, at Park Street, south of Lexington. This is the same year Peter Henry Clay Stitcher, his son, was born. In this era, a David Stitcher was chronicled as a policeman on Gay Street, and later, as bailiff. David's relationship to Jacob is not certain. John Stitcher died the year following his brother, Peter's death. It was documented in the diary of a local Frederick neighbor, Jacob Engelbrecht. Kathleen Frailey Puls, of Columbia, Maryland, believes a typhoid epidemic, around 1840, killed many Frederick citizens. So many died, a common grave was called for. She thinks Buckeystown is the burial site of Catherine Felty Stitcher Colgates's mother, who had traveled to Frederick, from Pennsylvania, to witness Catherine's marriage to Edward Colgate, a farmer. Edward was either divorced or widowed, as he brought three children into the marriage, who were from Washington, Maryland. At the time of John Stitcher's death, he was age 55 years, 11 months and 20 days. This is per church records, obtained from Kathleen Frailey Puls. It appears that John's first wife, Sarah Clemens, took their daughter, Louisa, son, Henry, and moved back to Philadelphia. Louisa was married twice, there, to a Hubbs and a Gillingham.
The Executive Journal of the U.S. Senate, page 570, 1814, shows that 2nd Lt. John Sticher, was promoted to 1st Lt., on July 9, 1814, 38th Regiment. He succeeded a Lt. Green, who resigned. It is not known why he was a member from Queen Anne's County, rather than Baltimore. The 39th Regiment was included in the 3rd Brigade of Brigadier General John George Stricker, when the British attacked at Northpoint.
John Stitcher died intestate,but a Final Accounting was presented to the Orphan's Court, on June 22, 1840, by Benjamin A. Cunningham, Administrator. Docket GME-14-33. Initial estate was $161.61, before collections and expenses, $42.65 afterward. Possible deposits returned or sums owned to the following individuals: H. Kuhn, Buckey & Kemp, Ruth Duvall, Elizabeth Dutrow, George Hoselback. Joseph Stevens, Ezekial Hughs, B.A. Cunningham, (10% commission to this parasite) and others. Eleanor Colgate Stitcher received $42.65 and each of the six children (Catherine is not mentioned) received $4.73. There was a Catherine Stitcher in Augusta County, Va., but this Catherine was too young to have married and left home. Because Eleanor has shown up in the subsequent to 1840 Census in Baltimore, it is thought she moved there from Frederick, so the boys could get work. There is no apparent ownership, by John, of real estate, althought his brother, Peter, did own some. It is not known why the Stitcher family did not aid Eleanor. The relationship, between Edward Colgate and Eleanor Colgate is brother and sister.
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