Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-17
The washington Family.

A correspondent Of the New Orleans Creole,
writing from Charlestown, (va.,) furnishes the
following interesting "reminiscences OF the fam
ilyof General Washington:
am addressing you now, Mr.. Creole, from
region Astounding with mementoes Of our glorious
Washington and indeed with many citizens who
are of his own blood kin. e
This town--called after the Generals brother
: Charles--was laid cut by that brother in H86.
The mansion Of Charles IAN humble farmhouse
has long since been replaced by more elegant
edifce and the property has gone out Of posses
sion of the Washington family. About two miles
west of the site of the present town, the resi-
dence Of Samuel Washington, another brother Of
the General That estate was called " Harewoodj"
and consisted of about 200 acres Of as fine land
as can be found in this noble county The great
grand children of Samuel Washington still reside
upon these patrimonial acres though large portion
Of the land has gone into other hands. The old
homestead stil stands--a very neat, TASTEFUL and
substantial stone edifice, two stories high. In the
hall are two superb, fnll-length e-size portraits
the one Of Samuel, aged 10; the other of his
blooming wife Of Is. The bridegroom has the
oid-fashioned, round-breasted, ante-revolutionary
coat, with rufies around his wristbands, small
clothes with knee-buckles, and slippers with shoe
buckles on the insteps. His youthful consort dis
plays q drapery equally elegant--but lam not able
10 describe 1t.
General Washington mentions this place in q
journal Of his tour 10 the Kenawha, as published
by Sparks. The passage--I quote from memory
OF y long time ago WAS nearly as follows;
"Setting out from Mount Vernon on horseback,
with servant, stayed the first night ut Leesburg
On the second day / dined on the summit of the
Blue Ridge; and at night reached the residence of
my brother Samuel, at the head Of Worthington's
Marsh"
In his young days, as you remember, Washing
ton surveyed these lands included In Lord Fairfxs
grant The first white man that ever crossed the
Blue Ridge into the Valley, where this county lies,
performed that exploit about the year 1927, FIVE
years before Washington was born. Therefore in
his early youth, when he surveyed 1t this vast do
main Of priceless agricultural riches was almost In
a state OF nature. Weems, In his Life Of Washing
ton, has celebrated tho athletic sports Of young
George, and Of his comrades the hardy young
Crawfords and stinsons-with whose mother, the
widow Stnson, Washington boarded while running
the lines for Lord Fairfax. The house where Mrs
8, lived, and the green sward where these young
Virginia buckskins tried their strength after the
fashion Of the ancient athletes, was about three
miles Southwest OF Chsrlestown. taedf Il
II was more than century ago; FOR II is just
one hundred years ago since George, as q colonel,
marched by this place with Braddock-Jnne,
i775--on the ill-stared expedition to Fort Du-
quesne. About ffeen miles from this place, In an
adjoining county, stands Greenway Court, the res
idence o. Lord Fairhx Il IL the identical mansion
which wcems has rendered immortal by that pa
thetic ballad wherein he describes the fatal effect
produced upon his lordship by the news Of the
surrender of Cornwallls at Yorktown. 1t was not
merely the defeat OF the royal forces, OF the cap
ture Of the noble Corvallis that gricved Fairfax,
but u was the fhct that the young gentleman, who
had been his surveyor, and whom he highly e.
teemed, should deal such blow; and thinking
that life had no more joys or duties for him, he At
once ordered his negro Joe to lay him In bed The
sequel Ia thus told: F.-a
"Then up rose Joe all at the word,
And took his masters arm;
And 10 his bed he softly led
sN The Lord of Greenway Farm.
n And Oft he called on Britain's name;
And OF he wept full sore;
Then sighed, Thy win, o Lord, be done;'
And word spake never more.n
rE When Is woman not womans When
she Il little cross.
tE When IL fowls neck like s'bell' When
n 4 wrung for dinner.
rE- The man who was a~"picture OF despair, v
has been set in "serious, frame OF mind
~ To cool the atmosphere, brag Of another
womans good looks IN the presence Of your wife.