John Ross Key

[2][3] Ann was a strong influence on her grandson Francis Scott Key when he lived with her near Annapolis when he was in school there.

Mustered into service at Frederick on June 21, 1775, Key was commissioned as a second lieutenant in Captain Thomas Price's Maryland Rifle Company.

At the end of 1776 Key is serving in the Maryland Militia under his uncle, Colonel Normand Bruce,[4] in the Frederick County, 35th Battalion.

[5] From Private Jacob Zoll's pension application [6] there is a firsthand account of Captain John Ross Key and his company going north in early 1777 with the Maryland Militia under Colonel Bruce.

His brother Philip Barton Key, also an attorney arranged for his nephew Francis to study law under his friend, Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase in 1800 and with whom he would later be a partner in Georgetown.