Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1861-04-19
Ifrom the London Am"rican1
Rambles among the Ancestral
Homes Of Washington and
Franklin.

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Homes Of Washington and
Franklin.
DIR. Macgowan has kindly forwarded
for publication the following interesting
sketch of recent visit to Northampton
While it will be of interest to all our
readers, the subject and the names will
give it a special interest for Americans =
On being introduced as lecturer on
China and Japan, before the Useful
knowledge Society of Northampton, the
vica and chairman, Rev. Sydney Gedgc,
announced me as from the land which had
been rendered famous by two Northamton
Washington and Franklin. On
the following day my kind chairman and
host afforded me an opportunity OF gleah-
inc few facts that must be new to your
readers. \ pleasant pedestrian excursion,
ACCOMPLISHED easily between breakfast and
luncheon, takes one form Eeton, whence
the Franklin issued to Brin5ton, where
stands the house in which Washington's
great grandfather spent his early years
The seuuestcrcd village of Ecton affords
no information concerning the phloso-
piers ancestors, which is not to be found
in his autobiography. English Parish
registers, so often t'lumhc | By our eountry-
men in search of pcligrccs, - no farther
back than the time Of Cromwell. Neither
these records, nor the lIcrald's College,
which is said to be bcscigcd by Americans,
always afford, it must be confessed, very
satisfactory results. We need not tarry
among these yocmen, or statesman as
the phrase is further north, but walk on to
B-ington, either direct, passing the house
in which Carey, the o'iginator of modern
Missions, piled his trade, (Crispin's prog
cny have their home in Northampton, or
il the highway be preferred, one passes,
so rich is this land i'll story, the ruins of
the Castle to which the refractory Beckett
was summoned, getting a glimpse at the
sane time of one Of the Crosses the be-
rcaycd Edward crctcd to Eleanor, \
barb, directed by the vica, made pcdestrl-
amism rapid, and we soon found ourselves
in front Of what must be dies, 4.natcd the
Washington House, 1t is a substantial
two-storicd cditicc, constructed of the yell
low sandstone Of the district, situated on
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