Researchers have traced George Batty’s descendants to include Will Beatty, a native of York, Pa., and a football player with two Super Bowl rings. (He could not be reached for comment.) The ethnographic team determined that Henry Cummins passed his lineage onto Harry S. Cummings, who in 1890 became the first African-American elected to Baltimore’s City Council. And Nathan Harris’ descendants seem to have taken root in Towson and can be found in families named Davis, Harris and Gross. (The Baltimore Sun was unable to contact these families; researchers declined to provide the descendants’ names because they have not yet established communication with these relatives.)