What is George Ellicott?
{{Infobox person | name = Ellicott, George | image = | caption = | birth_name = George Ellicott | birth_date = 28 March 1760 | birth_place = [[Ellicott City, Maryland]] | death_date = 9 April 1832 | death_place = Ellicott City, Maryland | nationality = American | spouse = Elizabeth Brooke (1762–1853) | height = | alias = | parents = [[Andrew Ellicott (miller)]] | children = [[Martha Ellicott Tyson]], Elizabeth Ellicott Lea | website = }} '''George Ellicott''' (1760–1832) was a [[son]] of [[Andrew Ellicott (miller)|Andrew Ellicott]]. With his two [[Quaker]] brothers, he founded Ellicott's Mills (now named [[Ellicott City, Maryland|Ellicott City]]), Maryland.<ref name=mill>{{cite news|first=Melissa|last= Arnold|date=January 2, 2001|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2001-01-02-0101020178-story.html|title=Ellicotts, Banneker found common ground in science|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|accessdate=January 23, 2021}}</ref> He was a mathematician, an [[wikt:amateur|amateur]] astronomer, a younger [[cousin]] of [[surveyor]] [[Andrew Ellicott|Major Andrew Ellicott]] and a friend of [[Benjamin Banneker]].<ref name=mill/><ref>(1) {{cite journal|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|url=http://www.boundarystones.org/articles/rchs_1969.pdf|title=Benjamin Banneker and the Survey of the District of Columbia, 1791|journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society|publisher=[[Historical Society of Washington, D.C.|Columbia Historical Society]]|location=Washington, D.C.|volume=69/70|pages=8, 12|year=1969|jstor=40067703|oclc=3860814|access-date=2013-01-13|via=boundarystones.org|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007223056/http://www.boundarystones.org/articles/rchs_1969.pdf|url-status=live}}<br />(2) {{cite book|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|year=1999|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/81/mode/1up|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page