. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. TUK WALLACE HOUSK AT 60MKRVILLK. 218 NEW JERSEY AS A OOL. While in the city he had conferred with Con-gress upon the operations of the next campaign,and in social life had attended the celebration ofthe festival of Saint John the Baptist, where be-fore the Society of Free and Accepted Masons, ata sermon at Christ Church, he had been calledthe Cincinnatus of America. He had danced in theold Powel house on Second Street, been presentat the banquet given by Congress in honor of theFrench alliance, and had sat for his portrait
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. TUK WALLACE HOUSK AT 60MKRVILLK. 218 NEW JERSEY AS A OOL. While in the city he had conferred with Con-gress upon the operations of the next campaign,and in social life had attended the celebration ofthe festival of Saint John the Baptist, where be-fore the Society of Free and Accepted Masons, ata sermon at Christ Church, he had been calledthe Cincinnatus of America. He had danced in theold Powel house on Second Street, been presentat the banquet given by Congress in honor of theFrench alliance, and had sat for his portrait toCharles Willson Peale and to Pierre Eugene duSimiti^re, the eccentric Swiss artist. Both Gen-eral and Mrs. Washington were the guests ofHenry Laurens during this the only relief heenjoyed from service since he first entered into it. General Washington reached his headquartersat Somerville upon February 5, 1779, and withina few days after his arrival, upon the 18th, oc-curred one of the most notable social events of theRevolution. The affair was in honor of the firstanniversary of the French alliance; the placewhere this
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