| Show THE HISTORIC JUMEL lUMEL MANSION WASHINGTON HEIGHTS NEW YORK The recent acquisition by b the city of New York of oC tho the famous Jumel man Ion sion situated on a bluff bluR above the tho Harlem river one of at tho the finest examples of et vl l 1 colonial architecture having been built In mS Is nn an event of ot tri ot alone because of ot Its location commanding beautiful b views of ot New illy ity and the adjoining country countr but more moro than all because of its his tile associations will this mansion with Ith the gardens still pertaining to It be be used a valuable addition to the peoples buildings and playgrounds It U Is to toi minder i A as V a museum of at Revolutionary relics and will prove pro a perpetual re of the the ine Interesting events that thal have hale transpired within Its walls wails and of ot I Headquarters great personages who once lived there General Washington made It his slept In while the were encamped ene In and about Now New York and ond a room beneath Its Ito roof root while his Joseph Joeph Bonaparte sentinels paced the piazza beneath Alexander Hamilton Aaron Burr Durr Moreau were all guests guesta k y lI lIIl J Il j 1 ll t el eli i v 5 a I v t L T T Yx rote there rote M his hb and on oa a rocky y eminence within the grounds Fitz Greene Halleck ot of lamous famous Marco As S tho the property properly of at Mme Jumel the tied red her i In the rich wIne merchant It tell fell temporarily to Aaron Burr who mar had not i 1630 1530 and who ho might have hao had a 11 life lito refuge from tr m his Ills poverty It If he fast at th that t been she so extravagant nut flat Burr made his wealthy money fly so 10 Ime Eliza Ellza iii secured a separation from tram him anti and he died miserably ly In 1830 1836 In s B n Jumel who survived her second husband hu nearly 29 years yenn dying and nM tt tha 1113 3 a native of at no country having been born at son sea between Franco ed eri i iy by i a West u Indies In ln Her mother other died at her birth and she he was adopt I evil Colonel charitable Ie lady lally of at Newport New ort II Il I At 17 years ears of Qt age eloped with married i Croix ft a British officer after after atte whose whoso death about the year Car 1601 she t v n and Stephen Jurnel an eccentric wine merchant of ot great wealth Her beau she sho I wan caused her to be much sought after by men of ot prominence and Rh Ahn h 1111 1 we well for tor known Rs liS a leader lead r ot of fashion especially In Paris In which city FaIt Fat rte i a time and appeared under tho the of ot the Marquis de la of ot 31 a f t lien fortune becoming Impaired through extravagance after atter the death Jm Jumel Passed the she he retired to the historic mansion on the thi tb Harlem and aul there remainder of ot her days dap |
