His mother kept a boarding house in Philadelphia which was the favorite resort of the members of the early United States Congress assembled in that city.
The DeCharms family, (Des Champs,) is of Norman origin; the Huguenot ancestors of the American branch having fled from Caen to London in 1685, on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
John Hargrove, and his first sermon on the Paramount Importance of Spiritual Things, was published at that place in 1828, and was afterwards reprinted in London.
After a year of pastoral labor in Bedford, Pennsylvania, DeCharms went to London and made further studies in Theology under Rev.
brought on about In 1847 he is reported to have suffered various disorders including congestion of the brain, attributed to his severe labor, from which he never recovered.