Ann Carroll Fitzhugh

[4]: 24  They had met because a brother of Gerrit's first wife, Wealtha Backus, had married Ann's sister Rebecca in 1819.

[4]: 24 The Smith household hosted both abolitionist and early suffrage meetings in the pre-Civil War period.

As a child in Chewsville, near Hagerstown, Maryland, she was given a slave, Harriet Sims, who was sold and was further enslaved in Kentucky, with her spouse Samuel Russell.

The couple interceded from the audience, and offered the Peterboro mansion as a safe haven to reconvene the gathering.

As the crowd that showed up was too large for Smith's house, the meeting was moved to the largest building in Peterboro, the Presbyterian Church.

According to one historian, "Ann brought warmth and cheerful serenity to her new home, and she and Gerrit had a very loving marriage, 'Heaven has broke loose!'

The library of about 2,000 volumes, dining room, and kitchen flanked the central hall on one side; a parlour and conservatory lay on the other.

During the 1830s, the Smiths deemphasized their Calvinist theology and began exploring the perfectionist and ultraist beliefs common in the Christian Union movement.

His son, George Fitzhugh, farmed in Stafford County, Virginia, and was spouse to Mary Mason.

Ann Hughes married Colonel William at Saint John's Episcopal Church, Hagerstown, on October 18, 1789.

The Ascension Window in St. John's north transept was donated in memory of Ann Fitzhugh's mother.