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Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ivedit in. This last bill was $2.30. COST OF TRAVEL. From this account book we leai-n what were the expenses of transportationof Col. Franks and family back and forth to Bethlehem, and what was paidfor the hired furnished lodgings in the mountain village. There were lostduring the Summer of exile (presumably under Lady Washingtons adminis-tration) one flatiron, valued Is., one large fork, four plates, three ducks, fourfowls, and consumed or wasted by the temporary tenants, one bushel pota-toes and one cwt. of hay. These items swelled the bill for removals, hire ofBethlehem quarters, and rent of Germantown premises, to $131.56. The President, his wife, and their adopted children, George WashingtonParke Custis and Nelly Custis, lived in health and peace in suburban quartersduring the Summer of the pestilence. The boy went to school at the OldAcademy, of which a cut is herewith given. A few days after the transfer ofthe executive party from town to country, a group of boys playing on the
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GERMANTOWN. 71 pavement in front of the Academy parted to left and right, caps in hand, be-fore a majestic figure that paused at the foot of the steps. Where is George Washington Parke Custis ? demanded the General. Charles Wister, a Germantown boy, plucked up courage and voice and toldwhere the great mans ward might be found. Another boy of the town, Jesse Wain, went home from school with ParkeCustis one afternoon and played with him in the garden, until General Wash-ington came out of the back door and bade his adopted son come into tea,and bring his young friend Math him. Nearly three-quarters of a centuryafterward an old man asked permission, upon revisiting Germantown to gointo the tea or breakfast-room, back of the parlors in the Morris house, andsitting down there, recalled each incident of the never-to-be-forgotten after-noon out. The grave kindness of the head of the household, the sweetplacidity of the mistress and the merry schoolfellow whose liking had wonfor him this dist

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