Show morgan gets relic of washington transpires that at the same time IT that J pierpont pont morgan purchased the greenwell collection of prehistoric weapons which hellas he baa just presented to the british museum he became the owner of a washington family document which it la Is believed in new york the financier will present to some american museum the document Is a deed years old relating to the sale of land by william D Wes hessington wessington which Is an old form of the the name of washington the document was drifted drafted in 1376 in the county of durham where ceorge ancestors are known to have lived for a time it measures nine inches by four inches and bears beara the impression of a seat seal in red wax of the much disputed arms of the original of stars an and stripes As witnesses of the curious relic are three wen weil known english names urn ura fre villes conyors conyers and this deet has been lying unnoticed among other papers for years in an old hotel in durham many strange suggestions have been made as to how it originally orgin nally ally got there one being that Wes hessington wessington sign signed edthe the deed in a room of the hotel occupied by a notary while another Is that the wess ington family lived lit id the inn fan in the fourteenth century the present proprietor in searching among his bis papers pap ers recently came across the faded document noticed the date 1376 find and offered it to canon greenwell the well known know collector of bf antiques and it ca came me into mr morgans possession at the same time that the financier acquired canon green wells collection of antiquities |