Background
Forrest was born in Saint Mary"s County in southern Maryland.
United States representative politician
Forrest was born in Saint Mary"s County in southern Maryland.
During the American Revolutionary War, Forrest was injured and lost a leg in the Battle of Germantown. Uriah Forrest also is a direct male descendent of Thomas Forrest, Esq a Financier with the Virginia Company who came to the Jamestown, Virginia Colony on the Second Supply ship in 1608. After the war, he traveled to London, but then returned to Maryland.
Forrest was also active in politics, representing Maryland as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787.
He also served in the third district of Maryland in the United States. Congress from 1793 to 1794. He also served as mayor of the Town of George, now Georgetown, in 1791 when George Washington met with local landowners at his home to negotiate purchase of the land needed to build the new capital city.
His remains were later disinterred, and he was reburied at Oak Hill Cemetery.