Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . 316 THE VAN NESS MANSION. by the architect Latrobe, and it cost about $50,000, upwardsof half a century ago. The country-place of the bridal couplewas meantime the Glebe, situated in Virginia, not manymiles from Washington, where they possessed 1,500 acre
Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . 316 THE VAN NESS MANSION. by the architect Latrobe, and it cost about $50,000, upwardsof half a century ago. The country-place of the bridal couplewas meantime the Glebe, situated in Virginia, not manymiles from Washington, where they possessed 1,500 acres, partof which is now owned by Caleb dishing. In 1865 the man-sion on The Glebe burned ^^§MUmuid VAN NESS MANSION, AND DAVY BURNS S COTTAGE. It is customary to refer to Burns as a common old fellow,but he appears to have used the first moneys derived from thesale of, his land and lots to educate his daughter in a mannerto fit her for the exalted company expected on the site of hisfarm. Seven or eight years elapsed between this good fortuneand her marriage. A copy of the funeral discourse of Rev. William Hawley,(Nicholas Callans copy), rector of St. Johns Church, deliver-ed on the occasion of the death of Mrs. Van Ness, 1882, is inpossession of W. H. Philip, Esq. Parts of this discourse follows : * She survived her only child, Mrs. Ann E. .on the spot on which she expired, the whole of Mrs. YanNesss life had been passed in witnessing the beginning, therise, and progress of this flourishing metropolis. She wasplaced by her parents in the family of Luther Martin, Esq., of SOCIAL SKETCHES. 317 Baltimore, who was then at the height of his fame as the
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