. Lafayette's visit to Germantown, July 20, 1825; an address delivered before the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, March 1, 1909, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 10, 1909, the Site and Relic Society of Germantown, May 20, 1910, the City History Society of Philadelphia, Jan. 11, 1911. account of it. The visit to Germantownwas made on Wednesday, July 20th. Therehad been a big dinner on the i6th, a concerton the 18 th, and a visit to the then compara-tively new and famous Fairmount waterworkson the 19th. We have living in Germantown to-dayJoseph Murtcr,* or Uncle Joe, for manyyears our
. Lafayette's visit to Germantown, July 20, 1825; an address delivered before the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, March 1, 1909, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 10, 1909, the Site and Relic Society of Germantown, May 20, 1910, the City History Society of Philadelphia, Jan. 11, 1911. account of it. The visit to Germantownwas made on Wednesday, July 20th. Therehad been a big dinner on the i6th, a concerton the 18 th, and a visit to the then compara-tively new and famous Fairmount waterworkson the 19th. We have living in Germantown to-dayJoseph Murtcr,* or Uncle Joe, for manyyears our only policeman, now well on toninety-five, who, as a boy of ten, rememberswell the reception to Lafayette, in which hewas an interested and active participant. Likemany old people, the events of his youth standout with vividness, while later events are lost inmemorys recesses. There is little in his recol-lections not substantiated by contemporary ac-counts; yet the description of an eye-witnessadds color and interest to any important set out from the city at an early hour,accompanied by his suite and a committee of * Since the above was written Joseph Murter has passed was born May 5, 1815, and was a resident of Germantown allhis life. He died January 14, TO GERMANTOWN 23 Councils, and reached the bottom of NegleesHill, where is now Wayne Junction, betweeneight-thirty and nine oclock. Captain Heiligscompany of artillery had been stationed on thelawn in front of Loudoun, which was given itsname because Thomas Armat, a famous merchantin his day, whose early home it was, had first set-tled in Loudoun County, Virginia. A coloredbugler named Johnson, said to have been one ofthe best buglers in the country, having beenstationed to announce the coming of the dis-tinguished guests, a salute of cannon was up to meet him at the hill were a com-pany of Germantown Cavalry; the GermantownBlues, a famous infantry company modeled afterthe McPherson
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