Before Davy Crockett (1786-1836) became a US Representative and then fought (and died) at the battle of
the Alamo in 1836, he went through Ellicott’s mills in a wagon laden
with flour barrels enroute to Baltimore.
He recounted his misadventure in his 1834 autobiography.
After running away from Kitchen’s school at a very young age, he went with a waggoneer to Gerardstown
(Virginia, now WV) where he worked until he decided to
accompany a man to Baltimore with the load. The horses bolted and he was in a "devlish flouncing about of flour barrels" in the back of the wagon. He survived - "if he is born for a seat in Congress,
even flour barrels can't make a mash of him."
