The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-02-25
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the excellent condition of its property
is very largely due 10 the enthusiastic and
interchangeable efforts exerted by Mr..
Roberts in its behalf, coupled with his
shrewd sense and sound business prin-
ciples in the management of its affairs.
No more valuable or creditable thing
has ever been done by the authorities of
the State of New Jersey than the aid
given to this Association as recited by
the following extract from its charter.
~. And be it enacted, that so long as the
building known as the Washington Headquar
ters shall be open to the public free of charge,
at all proper times, and so long it shall be
held as an historical building, within which
all the people of New Jersey may deposit ar
ticles of interest connected with the men and
events of our Revolutionary struggle, the
treasurer of this State shall pay to the presi-
dent or treasurer of the Washington Associa-
ton, on the first days of April and of Noyem-
Der of each and every year. the sum of twelve
hundred and fifty dollars, to be used by the
trustees for the care, maintenance and per-
petuation of the Headquarters, and trustees
shall render to the Governor of this State, on
count of their expenditures made from the
funds thus appropriated.
Not one dollar of this state appropria-
ton has ever been expended for any
other purpose than for the necessary
care of the Headquarters.
1t is impossible to mention here any
considerable portion of the valuable
relics which have become the property
of the Association. The following are
some of the principal ones: Besides the
articles of furniture used by Washing
ton, and which were obtained with the
house, there is, first of all, the original
commission of Washington as Command
erin Chief of the Continental forces, the
gift of Ferdinand J. Dreer, Esq. of
Philadelphia, who also presented two
order books; one of Captain Nathaniel
Webb, of the Connecticut Division, ex-
tending from September %, IT'S,
to January %, 1880, containing Gen
eral Steuben's Constructions for Man
covering the Troops" the other of
an officer of the Pennsylvania Line,
extending from February 10, 1880,
to April 80, 1880; the suit of clothes
owned by Washington and worn by him
on the day of his first Inauguration as
President of the United States, with a
d silver hilted dress sword and buckles
worn with it; large punch bowl, pre-
sented by General Washington to an an
cestor of Colonel Cadwalader J. Pride,
and pair of vases presented to the same
person by General Lafayette; a hand
some portrait of Alexander Hamilton;
unique marble bust of Washington,
by Houdon; full-sized copies in oil of
of Woolastons Martha cambridge and
9. w. Peale's Washington; chair from
the library at Mount Vernon; gun
made in Queen Anne's time and captured
with British vessel by a party of Jer-
seymen at Perth Amboy; "Old Nat"
a gun presented to Captain Nathaniel
Camp by General Washington for the
defense of Newark; "The Crown Prince"
a gun captured from the British at
Spring field, aud afterward used as sig
nal gun; two of the brass cannons sur
rendered by Burgoyne; number of
British maskets captured in the battle of
Trenton, together with muskets, swords,
and uniforms of both Continental and
Hessian troops; the silk Masonic sash or
baldrick worn by Washington and pre-
sented by him to Judge Cunning Bed
ford, of Delaware; a number of articles
of china and glassware, formerly part of
the table furniture of Washington, and
bought at the recent sale in Philadelphia,
made by the administrators of Mrs. Lor-
EMO Lewis; the plan and papers relating
to the proposed capture of Prince Will
liam with the journal of General Mat
thias Ogden in the expedition against
Quebec; the original letter book kept by
the agents of Lord Stirling at his furnace
at Hibernia during the war; antique
furniture. side board, knife boxes, tables
and chairs, of the Revolutionary period,
There are many autograph letters Of
Washington and his contemporaries,
among which is one of the few autograph
letters of Martha W ashington, and large