The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-01-19
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial correspondence.li

Tudor Place, the old home of Mrs
Beverly Kennon and her grandc hill
dren, occupies am entire city block I'm
Georgetown, five and. bne4 haif acres.
bounded by 3hirty-secondi street, Thir--
ty-first street, street and. @ street,
Old residents of Washington some.
times say that the entire neig hborhood
was once known as Tudor Place and,
manned In honor of. the royal House OF,
England. The Tudor. Place Of today
has on 1t the old house built al century
ago by. Thomas Peter,
stE A Historic Dwelling,
Mrs Beverly Kennon was born at,
Tudor, Place In January, 1876, and
practically all her.life has BEEN passed.
there She is i'm line of direct descent
from Martha Washington Martha,
Washington's first husband! Id win be
remembered, was John Parke. Custis.
,When she married George Washington
she had one son, also a john Custis,
wiim is mentioned as aid-de-campi to-
Washington at one period during the
ReyohItfOh This young man married
Eleanor. Calvert, descendant of the
Lords; Baltimore From this marriage
there were four children onesOf whom
was Martha Custis, whos married
Thomas Peter. Itewas Thomas Peter
who, built Tudor Place and who was
Mrs; Kennon's father. Her maiden
name was Britannia Peter She mar
Hied Commodore beverly Kennon, of
the navy.
Entertained Lafayette.
When Tudor Place threw open its
doors men and women entered whose
names and achievements spell Amerii
ca. 1t was to Tudor Place that Lafa-
yette came when he revisited America
and was honored and feted in Old
Georgetown after visiting President
Monroe at the White House In 1924
He came to America after many years
of absence and saw the little cluster
of colonies, which. owed much to, his
help, grown already into a lnsty young
nation. He met men whom he had
first known on the field of battle now
statesmen and engaged In forging tbs
links of a lasting government,
Tudor Place, was the first private
house he, visited after going to tbs
White House, where he was, Of course
the guest Of the nation. There hangs
in one Of the rooms Of Mrs. Kennon':
house portrait Of Lafayette as h,
appeared Ia 1924, a much older mai
than the popular idea would have It.
\ Washington Relics.
There, are candlesticks from Noun
Vernon and cut glass varying only
trihe from the design of modern orna
ments of the same kind. Two grea
glass shades surround them, not from
Mount Vernon, however, but from tn
table of the last royal governor of Vii
ginfa. There is an engraving of tn
family at Mount Vernon; also littl
mahogany desk.
There are two engIavfngs Of Trum
bulls paintings of the death of Mont
gomery at Quebec and of the battle 0
Bunker Hill. Both are from Noun
Vernon. A camp stool used by Wasl
ington Is there,
Old China Treasures.
Martha Washington's wedding Sill
pprs are In glass cabinet. The
would not be worn at weddiRg t
day, but were grand slippers Of thei
kind. There is a large bowl however
probably a punch bowl, Of "Cincinna
china" and another bowl with tn
mark Of the emperor of China upon /
And no one could help stopping to loo
at Martha Washington's Bible, we
worn from much reading There
lalso pair of her spectacles. The