Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania ... . WASHINGTONS MASONIC APRON, MADE BY MADAME LAFAYETTE.—Page WASHINGTONS 498. Relics of Washington. 497 factured by J. Bailey in Fishkill, New York. Franklins caneis a long, knotty black cane, bequeathed to Washington by thesage in the following clause in the codicil to his will : My finecrab-tree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously wrought inthe form o
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania ... . WASHINGTONS MASONIC APRON, MADE BY MADAME LAFAYETTE.—Page WASHINGTONS 498. Relics of Washington. 497 factured by J. Bailey in Fishkill, New York. Franklins caneis a long, knotty black cane, bequeathed to Washington by thesage in the following clause in the codicil to his will : My finecrab-tree walking-stick, with a gold head curiously wrought inthe form of a cap of liberty, I give to my friend and the friendof mankind, General Washington. If it were a sceptre, he hasmerited it, and would become it. It was a present to me fromthat excellent woman, Madame de Forbach, the dowager-duch-ess of Deuxponts. The sword of the Hero !The star! of the Sage !Whose valor and wisdom Are stamped on the age!Time-hallowed mementos Of those who have rivenThe Bceptre from tyrants, The lightning from heaven. Morris. In the same glass case are other interesting relics of Washing-ton, the most conspicuous of which is his camp-chest, an old-fash-ioned hair trunk, twenty-one inches in length, fifteen in width,and ten in depth, filled with the table-furn
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