A resident of the Wapping of Baltimore.
1795. Fell’s Point is chiefly the residence of seafaring people, and of the younger partners of mercantile houses, who are stationed there to attend to the shipping.—Isaac Weld, ‘Travels through North America,’ p. 26 (Lond., 1799).
1812. Those who had escaped from the fangs of the infuriate ruffians of Fell’s Point [in the Baltimore riots].—Boston-Gazette, Aug. 10.
1848. “You see,” ses he, “I’m one of the b’hoys!—a out and out Fell’s Pinter” [Baltimore].—W. T. Thompson, ‘Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel,’ p. 78 (Phila.).
