Learn little-known facts about one of Annapolis richest colonial founders and one of its four signers of the Declaration of Independence.

In 1704 Maryland's colonial seat of government (later its state house) was burned. The suspected arsonist was hanged in 1708.

On an October night in, 1907, Lieutenant James Sutton, a student at the Naval Academy, got into a fight with some other young officers. He ran a short distance to his tent with two pistols. Sutton fired a couple of shots before being wrestled to the ground. The men later told investigators that Sutton felt remorse for his misconduct and pulled a pistol out from under his body and shot himself in the head. Sutton also had a dent in one side of his skull that never got explained, and he didn't bleed from the gunshot, which caused his mother to conclude that her son was dead or dying by the time the shot was fired. Rosa Sutton said her son's ghost visited her at the family home in Oregon, and told her he had been murdered.