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- A member of the South River Club, and well connected in political circles. He was U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1837-42. He wrote The Maryland Resolutions, and the Objections to Them Considered, By a Citizen of Maryland (Baltimore, MD: E.J. Coale & Co., 1822), which was an argument against a new tax to benefit the Maryland public schools.
On his tombstone in the family plot at "Tulip Hill": "Killed by the bursting of a gun on board the Princeton 28 Feb., 1844 in his 60th year."
See this collection at the Library of Congress: "Galloway-Maxcy-Markoe family papers, 1654-1888 (bulk 1750-1860)." Here is the collection description:
"Correspondence, business papers, financial records, legal documents, speeches, reports, essays, memoranda, and other papers relating to economic conditions in Maryland (1750-1818) and foreign affairs and political events in the 1840's and 1850's. Includes the manuscript of Virgil Maxcy's biography of John C. Calhoun and numerous letters from Calhoun. Other correspondents include members of the Cheston, Chew, Howard, and Tilghman families, Lewis Cass, Daniel Dulany, Peter Force, Alexander Hamilton, Jr., David Hoffman, Francis Scott Key, George McDuffie, John F. Mercer, James Monroe, Joel R. Poinsett, Richard Rush, Joseph Story, Benjamin Tasker, Jr., George Washington, and Daniel Webster. Microfilm edition of the Higginson & Bird letterbook available, no. 16,289. Members of the Galloway, Maxcy (Maxey), and Markoe families represented include Samuel Galloway (1720-1785) and his son, John (d. 1810), merchants; John's son-in-law, Virgil Maxcy (1785-1844), lawyer, politician, and diplomat; and Virgil's son-in-law, Francis Markoe, public official."
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