| Show r Some of the Homes of the Father of His Country f i No Other American Has Ever Had Half j as Many alt all tho dwellings ever AJ occupied by lIy George Washington Wn were In thoy would constitute 11 II Valhalla of ot which tho day J might well bo 10 proud some of them have not survived the century which hall lim ed the greatest nf ot nil All went w nt tho way of ot till nil Ih lIh Many Man of them remain specially those which Washing Washington Wa ton toll used us liS during bin hl campaigns Homo nf them been bre borne piecemeal pJ lovingly unil with un almost almo t vandalism by who value alue such Huch as witnessed of the tho former of ono all his hili fellows Th The liou e lu III which ton wan 1111 born burned to the ground when tho future president was three years cars of OK and til tile took h lt r In u II rudo rulo hastily erected on tho site until u new homo could be rejected earliest t abiding of great Virginian was WM ut Wake In Westmorland county and until recent years roar the two brick chimneys nil remained from Crom tho sudden ron con conflagration which tho Washing tons homeless mill Minding At Iho present nt hardly u 1 brick cnn can ba ho found Count n niter ft r diligent Hf tho ho relic hunter has Icen thorough and n 1 tho site hIt t reverted to Itt Ita org 1111 condition Fortunately for the Washington they hoon hail another r home They owned another estate In Stafford comi coun comity ty 1 opposite and at liS won tuI in rould right themselves they removed to tolt U In a house hou e which was WM tho counterpart I of ot tho thomm mm nile that burned They lived thero un until until til the father Augustine A Washington died for Cor some OIrlO til vent to live lIe with his hla rider brother J who had In Inherited Mount Venion from hili father was living on that flab estate tho happy hIlPP go lucky luck lito of ot a 1 Virginia planter plan TIt Tim not rich at lit this time but thoy wera In wry very com comfortable circumstances and till hittl rich friends Lawrence 11 wr nc was WUA a IL favor ltd III Lord Fairfax was hili constant Tho was waa no attached to genial I irry that h 1111 went out of ot Ms his way wn and gladly to do for bin hili young halt half brother mado hi hll at Bt Mount Vcr er non nOli and shored In tho general l JI which came through tho Iho friend hip of being belnA employed to 10 sur survey ur vey 11 tho latter estates and paid well for tor lining doing It II At tho death of Jr Lawrence Washing Ing InA Mount Vernon h th 1111 proper property ty tv of or his hIli brother The latter proceeded delay to put pul the B tuto In order and hlll just about donn donnio io PO whim when tho colony colon sent him to ne lie negotiate I lo troublesome Trench and Indians IndIanA When he lie returned lin hI was appointed Rid to Ial hed himself lf In that generals rather disappointing campaign Then he re returned reo turned to tu his estate married Mrs 1 prepared to nettle Rettie down fol the tho remainder of j his hla life at beautiful Mount Vernon ernon fato tato would not havn It en fin After n II fel yarA of ond great Grent prosperity at 11 tho th of 0 which ho hud hudIK IK come tho most conspicuous person In tn tho colony of or anil uh ulso o ono of ot the Iho richest ho vas called to the tho command of the army with which the colonist wern about to tho or for freedom Dur During DurI I ing IIII tho th nix yearn CrR ho hI had more temporary places than any Ken gen pral Ifal or modern who hat laa mad mads II his hla WilY Into history On Jan 23 3 U Washington left on jour journeyed In that fashion a to Man to 10 join the tha patriot army The first tie lie occupied was a larie cable rooted roofed duelling built In und lined ns th residence of or principals of ot Harvard college For ISO 12 tUI the wan occupied by uc ce lva Ie presidents pre of ot tho Institution After tt r several weeks Washington ton re removed moved to tho Craigie afterward the tho hom o 0 and occupied by tho of tho poet at lit tho th pres present ent time Here Jere Mrs Washington Joined him her sunny and dignified pres presence ence lent n Il charm to tho UIO mundon which has hall not effaced Early In the Iho the tho headquarter were removed to Now NOI York tho Wll went to 10 live In u II house In III Pearl J earl opposite Cedar Mrs Mr Wu dill did not lIol like tho house homo or ortho ortho tho neighborhood und Imd noon ru re removed moved to tho 1110 Mortimer home houet which was o ono of or tho most pretentious In America at tho time It was known ns Richmond Hill and wan Willi sit alt situated on the corner of and ond Hud ul ton ron Later on It the city residence lonce of or Aaron Burr Hero the tho until lItter tho Government now belongs to th tho Military From Irom W st a hin ton moved again Into IntI X w Jersey Jer up hU bli for awhile lit t the th houie Mue of ot the widow of ot Colonel Ford at Mor Morristown Thin hou e IK I n oW In the pos I nn of oC tho u Association A I of ot N e w Jersey and I e u vet cJ a II u HOUSE HH f t L 1 I I i Ii I I evacuation In September then to noser place 6 three a I north of 0 Harlem After ACter this until tha of ot found beneath moro mora than half hair a IL hundred roof Mm Washington went back to Mount II aunt Vernon to aWAit the th result re of the problematical 1 struggle From Har Harlem lem tho commander In chief wont went to tB White county New NewYork tW York lie lived In a 1 house which IK III still In a B good tate state of preservation In u II few weeks he ho crossed tho th Hudson river Into Now Jer ey riM and occupied the house bou e of or Peter nt at sack All through tho th dreary Mcary day of or orthal that thal melancholy retreat across New Jersey lin lived In camp lIml but bul early atly In December he established himself In th the Barclay Darday hous at 01 Ia ov op Trenton which Is III there stilL Two later the American moved l Inland and the battles of ot Tren Trenton Trenton ton and Princeton were fought Hev eral houses In the vicinity of theto thu fa were used RS 18 head and nil all of them are to bt 1 In lit January Washington toll ar lr arrived rived at nt town N J and ant remain remained ed In that vicinity for about six Ix months at 1 a tavern which has disappeared On July luly 14 the march to Phila Philadelphia delphia began and during the military I operations In that vicinity which In Included th tha of Washington lived In u 11 dozen dO I or Ir more moru houses hOIl e mo t of 0 which been re rc replaced placed by other ethor Id hau at lit Valley Torso Forge Is iLia I III 1 f C Ir stahl of ot ota preservation a at ill 11 lodging places of or the chi f I urn Mid The Uti r IP HI hll ll It v II lols Upon uon a R tOI Lato In of ot that y tho un was wa again In III Phila Philadelphia delphia He lie remained In the Quaker City for about two but there thero Is no authentic record of MH hili stopping place In March he returned return cd to Mid and remained In Ills his old head until June Then he wont to New or on the Hudson and wan waA quartered on an estate which Is I now a brickyard Thence h went to West WestPoint Point and 1 lived In u II house built by hy u II wealthy New York merchant named Moore which afterward destroyed by lire The property contained 1800 acres part of ot which was waa eold to the ROOM IN WHICH WASHINGTON Hn COMMISSION and contains a large and valuable col collection lection ot oC Washington roller In 10 July 1780 headquarters at II t tha tho Dey manlon ut lIt N J I which was the moat mo t pretentious pret dwelling In the tha tute atit and U b still admired for or Its lis ar architectural symmetry and ihu th substantial subs lan character of Its masonry late Inte In July Joly the general as back In New ew York state Hw II for Cor awhile nt nl tho country seat Beat of o Colonel Beverly who married a II daughter of Frederick the owner oner f nn Immense landed estate on the Hudson This house was vai near the rIer opposite owl and ii I little below West Point and I 18 still Holde being occupied by the th hou fJ po kes great reat Interest since It was tho of or Arnold Arnol when ho hf as In command ut III till Point anti was wa the seen CeM of o hU plotting t the tho Infant republic It was In Ina a room of oC tho mansion that Arnold tret Andre and n the Initial details of 0 tho at attempted attempted tempted betrayal were arranged The property vua confiscated by br the state and old oldOn 1 On Aug Au 24 1780 headquarters at nt Liberty Polo tavern which stood about two miles back from rom the tho Pall 1411 lutes on ou the site Bite of or the tho present ton tonn of or Englewood N J After going oln to various NelV Jersey points near tho Iho New ew York line Washington returned to the Robinson house going to the scene of ot Andres Andros execution and remaining several days durs In on un old 01 1 stono building built by a retired Went Indian trader In 1700 Thence the com commander mander went again to N J lived for or a II month at nt his hlA old quarters In th the comfortable Dey ney mansion Late In tho autumn ho returned to his former fortner quarters at ot New Windsor N Y Yand and foUled fettled down for the winter He lie did not move moe from rom New rew Windsor I until June 25 On that day he ho Joined the encamped at on the Hudson Hero ho he made his home In n beautiful dwelling belonging to tho thoVan Van Shortly afterward IK hI removed to tha tho about miles a n halt half from tho present pre ent village of ot Ferry This stood Mood on an nn elevation which to this day Ii I called hill The houlle has hos been destroyed On Aug u 30 tho busy man was again In III Philadelphia living at lIt the houto of 0 nobert Morrl He lie remained there until tho early au autumn of oC the thi following ear ha he realized bat tile tho had come coma for tor him to move Ho 1111 choso Va ns II n a halting hailing point and became domiciled In tn the hou houpe c of Chancellor Wythe This dwelling still Intact l Is n largo two stor brick turn tUN facing iv long lunS green common and by b enormous It has hall hel hd n hopt hO l of ot celebrities In Its Ita day da Its designer builder being George a IL of oC the Declaration for COI moo moio than twenty years yean sols Hole chan chancellor lor of For many years It was tho homo home of or Governor Page e and In Inter times sheltered 1 tho 0 Harrison family I After the surrender at III Yorktown I Washington removed his headquarters to his own fireside at Mount Vernon In a Ufe few days da s however ho was ort off for ar Philadelphia where ho he lived until the next spring at It South Third street tho residence re of 0 Chew ono of ot tho tIo mansions lon In tho city elt eltI I taken down aa as early carl as all 1810 1830 On March llarch 22 tho commander comman er joined the army at Newburg N Y Tho house hoube he occa occupied pied at that Hudson river point Is a plain ono one story stone building with I walls waliA two feet In 10 thickness It watt pur purchased chased chase by tho of oC New ew York In 1850 and Is now preserved as a a public memorial General final Onal head headquarters quarters were In New cw Jersey at Hocky Hill four mills miles north of oC Prince Princeton ton The great man In this house the tho homestead ot of John for months It had sheltered flickered tho general more than Ihan once during his trying Now Jersey Jersy cam campaigns campaigns and now that the worst was WAIl over oer he returned to It and wrote hla address a to tho Continental Continent in my Mrs Washington 1111 with him und and was wan In In the old college building at 11 t Princeton near n ar by IJ The victor and Md his happy wire wife In the Until November When they went to tl Newburg N Y to prepare for tho triumphant entry Into Int New York drat official residence an IU president of ot the tho republic which lie he had mado wis known an as 3 Cherry New rew York U It was a II mansion of oC the tho old colonial type three and on attic In height lighted by bT twelve windows on the Cherry street elde and fourteen n on Franklin square On known as St n square From Its windows the th transplanted Virginian might look out upon Upen tbs tha waters of tha tho East river fairer even In III days la 1 than their thel own Potomac Thero were complaints nt nl the thu time the president p ral l nee nce us It was WIB called calle I was too far out of tho city proper which centered at Howling Green At Al this time New York T rk boasted boul of a population of It wan waif smaller than Philadelphia and Doston Host on hut but It hn prospects ts and It II was se sc selected d as o the neat lat of o tho national gov government go Thero Willi n 11 good deal of dis discussion clI as to the advisability of ot pro providing viding a residence for Cor tho executive some somo of et tho 1110 moro more au tere republicans declaring that It Il contrary to the tha principles of ot trim democracy At lost last It tt wan WIlli determined to 10 mako the experiment ment and congress appropriated for tor the purpose fhe was built In 1770 1710 by b Walter Franklin ono on of the tho richest merchants of tho city and ant tho square on which It stood n after atter him und and not after the Immortal Benjamin as all Is It popularly Mrs Wash did not attend tho Inauguration When she he came callie to e York a month later sho ho did not nol take kindly to tn the ex executive mansion Sh agreed with tho who considered It too far from Crom town and tho Washington poon oon left lotI U It and moved Into Inlo tho new McComb mansion ut at 39 Broadway doss t t Trinity church nut Hut the end was wat not yet Tho seat of or tho national government was too glittering a 0 prize to b be resigned with without without out u struggle A bill was passed pas ed by bytho bytho tho congress s makIng Philadelphia tho national capital for ten years and fix Ox fixing InK ing tho permanent p location on tho Po 10 Potomac tomac With a II of resignation tempered t probably by a 1 sense pense of satis satisfaction faction the tho to 10 to tho Pennsylvania metropolis The legislature lure of tho commonwealth built an executive mansion but one ona look at It was enough for Mrs Wash Washington ington It was too Incomplete and too barn like to be at all attractive and ant sho sh declared she sho would not Ito In It U It afterward the University of Pennsylvania Tho hired a 0 house from Cram Hobert Morris In Market street tho handsomest residence In Inthe Inthe the city elt and an established themselves therein Their next and Ind lilting Hitting was wall to Mount Moun Vernon I HORACE K 1 AYRES |
