A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . ashingtons fellow aid-de-camp under Braddock,an opportunity to woo and win the fair lady. Mor-ris became a royalist, and in 1776 his estate was for-feited. That same year Washington used the houseas his headquarters, and later the Hessian general,Knyphausen, occupied it. After the Revolution,under its hospitable roof, Washington, John Adams,John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, GeneralIvnox, Alexander Hamilton, and other distinguishedmen and their wives were entertained. In 1810 itbecame the property of Stephen
A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . ashingtons fellow aid-de-camp under Braddock,an opportunity to woo and win the fair lady. Mor-ris became a royalist, and in 1776 his estate was for-feited. That same year Washington used the houseas his headquarters, and later the Hessian general,Knyphausen, occupied it. After the Revolution,under its hospitable roof, Washington, John Adams,John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, GeneralIvnox, Alexander Hamilton, and other distinguishedmen and their wives were entertained. In 1810 itbecame the property of Stephen Jumel, a wealthyman, who had married a charming and brilliantyoung lady from Rhode Island. Then it numberedamong its guests Louis Philippe, Lafayette, Talley-rand, Jose])li Bonaparte, and Louis Napoleon,After a while the Jumels went to France and, re-turning some years later, brought with them eightchairs that had belonged to the great x^apoleon, atable procured by ISTapoleon in Egypt, a clock fromthe Tuileries, and many other historically interestingand valuable furnishings. 1%. 132 A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK Just below here, continued the professor, atOne Hundred and Fifty-ninth Street, you will noticea remarkable semicircle of fine, tall cypress the cutting through of streets w^as begun thecircle was complete, and a little lake occupied thecenter. The trees, it is said, were brought fromEgypt by Xapoleon and presented to Jumel, wdiotransferred them to his estate and planted them inthe unique manner I have described to you. After Jumels death his widow continued to livehere. One day she surprised her friends by marry-ing Aaron Burr, the latter then being a very oldman. For a time thereafter it was called the BurrMansion-—not for long, however, as the pair soon sepa-rated. Then John Jacob Astor became its owner,and here, tradition says, his secretary and friend,Fitz-Greene Halleck, wrote the immortal poem Marco Bozzaris. At present the house belongsto General
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