Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . fterward to MountVernon; and in his will they were disposed of as follows : To my companion in aims and old and intinnite Craik, I give my bureau (or as cabinet-makers call ittambour secretary), and the circular chaii, an appendage ofmy study. That secretary is now in the possession of a grandson ofDr. Craik, the Reverend James Craik, of Louisville, in Ken-tucky. Tlie engraving is from a pencil-sketch by Mr. Alex-ander Casseday. The seat of the federal government was removed from NewYork to Philadelphia in 1
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . fterward to MountVernon; and in his will they were disposed of as follows : To my companion in aims and old and intinnite Craik, I give my bureau (or as cabinet-makers call ittambour secretary), and the circular chaii, an appendage ofmy study. That secretary is now in the possession of a grandson ofDr. Craik, the Reverend James Craik, of Louisville, in Ken-tucky. Tlie engraving is from a pencil-sketch by Mr. Alex-ander Casseday. The seat of the federal government was removed from NewYork to Philadelphia in 1790, by act of Congress. That bodyadjourned on the 12th of August, and Washington imme-diately thereafter made a voyage to Newport, Rhode Island,for the benefit of his health. Close application to publicbusiness had caused a nervous prostration, that threatened con-sequences almost as serious as those with which he had beenmenaced by a malignant carbuncle the year before. He hadalso suffered severely from a violent inflammation of the lungs. AX D ITS ASSOCI A TI 0NS. 215. ^S SKCUKTAltV AND CIICILAR CHAIR. T\\e sea voyage was beneficial, and on the 30tli of Augustthe President and his family set out for Mount Vernon, thereto spend the few months l)efore the next meeting of Con-gress at Philadelphia. They left New York for Elizabethtownin the splendid barge in which they had arrived, amid tliethunders of cannon and tlie huzzas of a great nudtitude ofpeople. Washington never saw New York ;igain. Havingno fiH-ther use for his barge, he wrote to Mr. Pandall, the 216 MOUNT VERNON chairman of the committee through whom he liad received it,saying: As I am at this moment about connnencing my journey toVirginia, and consequently will have no farther occasion forthe use of the barge, I must now desire that yon will return it,in my name, and with my best thanks, to the original proprie-tors ; at the same time I shall be much obliged if you willhave the goodness to add, on my pa
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