[Pennsylvania County Histories]

9 7V. g" P 3£t> 11 5 77 H-. / /> 3/^1/ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniacoun50unse_0 V. % MARK TWAIN’S scRap moK. PA T P N T S : UNITKD S TATES, GREAT BRITAIN. FRANCE. June 24th, 1873. May i6th, 1877. May i8th, 1877. TRADE MARKS: UNITED STATES. ' GREAT BRITAIN. Registered No. 5,896. Registered No. 15,979. DIRECTIONS. Use but little moisture, and only on the gummed lines. Press the scrap on without wetting it. DANIEL SLOTE N: COMPANY, NEW YORK./ f | likely to be Serviceable for many ve come, stands a little removed from any pm. (r°ad. The barn which stood here in Rovo- | intionary times, is gono, bat in its place is a From, < &. j substantial structure, in keeping with the ■ other appointments of the farm, erocted ip j 1S03. The buildings, occupying a level situa- i tion amid a sea of living green, form a very 4 pleasant picture these sunny summer days, j Ear as the eye can reach are well cultivated Fate, .f | farms. Near at hand is Twitt creek, and just ; beyond it a spring gushes forth cool and sparkling, one of the strongest in all the country round, its waters contributing much to WV' : ': - " v>-' swell the little creek, to conceive of which as furnishing the power for a mill requires, it must be admitted, a rather unusual stretch of y PtEY FORGE! the imagination. There were many queer nooks and corners The Patriotic Memories That Cluster all over the house, a few of which still re¬ main, including some curious closets upstairs. Round the Vicinity. The massiveness of the stonework gave op¬ portunity for the construction of these curi¬ ous receptacles, which the thrifty lionsewifo GENERAL WAYNE’S HEADQUARTERS. of Revolutionary times, and her successors many years later, knew how to employ to Nooka and Corners of the Old House advantage for storing such articles as were used only a portion of each year. -The Wayne Residence Near PaoU A portion of the particulars given here were as seen by Mrs. Holstein ~ His obtained from Mrs. Anna M. Holstein, the Career and Services to the Revo¬ estimable woman whose patriotic devotion to lutionary Cause. to the sick and wounded Union soldiers in war time has become familiar to all. Her husband’s family are relatives of the Waynes,, Before entering upon the completion of the William H. Holstein’s grandmother, Eliza¬ description of Wayne’s Headquarters, it may beth Wayne, being a sister of the General’s be remarked that no section of Pennsylvania, father. Mrs. Holstein obtained from Wil¬ .indeed, of the whole country, is so rich in liam H. Walker’s mother, who died four years histone and patriotic memories as that por- ago, many particulars of interest. Mrs. Hol¬ tion 0f Montgomery and Chester connties stein says in an unpublished journal contain¬ Schnvlt3!,1 v A ed WUhiu th0 limits of the ing many facts in relation to Valley Forge : “ Waynesborough, near Paoli, was the ValievValley ForgePo clusterey‘ ArRevolutionary°nnd the heiKhts recollec¬ of home and residence of General Anthony tions and traditions that arc endnring Al- Wayne. While his son, Col. Isaac Wayne Zi ev/70ldl0a<1 that lGads t0 011 ^ of the and his wife were liviDg, I frequently visited toids of the river, recalls the story of some the place, though, at that time, being an in¬ demonstration by Washington’s troops. The valid, his mind and memory were much im¬ associations are well calculated to arouse paired. Mrs. Wayne related to me many in¬ pride in one’s country and to stimulate every patriotic impulse. y cidents of interest concerning her husband’s father in Revolutionary days. At one time a Everyone who comes here from whatever party of British soldiers visited the house in portion of this great republic, should be the search of him and would not believe but that better for ins visit. Whoever walks upon the he was secreted somewhere in the rooms, soil hallowed by the deeds, and consecrated though positively assured that he was not. In by the graves of Revolutionary heroes, should their quest they ransacked the old garret, feci au interest in their story. Whoever whore was stored a quantity of flax and tow, gazes upon the magnificent view which i n large boxes and barrels. Into these they Washington beheld on that memorable morn- ithrust their swords and bayonets so that, if no-n roh a ^nuc^red and eighteen years any one had been there he could not have es¬ i ° ’ ,whGn the encampment at Valley Forge caped. The General at the time was at his was broken up and the army marched away headquarters. ^“rf'CtSat Monmouth a”d elsewhere “In this house six generations of Waynes i c J 1 mudlaT a new Aspiration from the ; sceue. There lingers still and will remain on have lived. The parlor on the right hand as you enter the hall was to me a place of great i y i}e)Sht and in every vale for ages to interest, for the reason that it remains, with I C,°me a hal° that cannot grow dim, a renown furniture unchanged, just as it was in General | that cannot fade. Future generations will Wayne’s time. The same carpet was on the tofre^T °°k nPOn tbe ground dedicated to freedom by sacrifice and heroism, and a<ms floor which, as I recall the circumstance now, was about twelve inches from the wall. A hence pilgrimages will be made to the path- otic shrines of Valley Forge. portrait of the General hangover the high mantel, and, above it, were his crossed swords The old house which was Wayne’s Head¬ pistols, and crimson silk sash—all which had quarters, which has given shelter to so many seen service. There were brass andirons generations, and which, to all appearances, is and a fender of the olden time on the hearth. I 2 ijfasluoned mirror, which mast Iiave I two large tracts "of wild laud bought by Dr. ol’ sidered very handsome in its day, Franklin and others in Nova Scoria. , 5; tag osite the mantel. The chairs and After two yeai'i he returned, marrying in -S p. qnaint and old-fashioned, bat very May, 1766, Mary^ daughter of Bartholomew uu.iiusoiln?, and they remained jastwherethey Penrose, a prominent merchant of Philadel¬ stood in the General’s time—he has been dead phia. He took a leading part at home in the a hundred years. My husband’s father and events which led to a union of the colonies to mother, Col. George W. Holstein and Eliza¬ resist British aggression, and recruiting a regi¬ beth Hayman, a niece of the' Gencrglj were ment in Chester county for the Continental married in this room.” > ! service. Somewhat vain as to his personal In this connection it may be mentioned by | appearance, he was the soul of truth and ,, way of correcting an erroneous impression j honor. A born fighter, love of glory and of conveyed in a previous paper (in the Herald [ country were his leading passions. It is un- & of the 2d inst.), that the spring at the side of | necessary to trace his connection' with the the road which passes along the bank of Canadian campaign, Ticonderoga, Brandy¬ Valley creek, a half-mile or more above the u wine, Germantown and the events leading up Washington Headquarters, was not known at to Valley Forge, or subsequently bis actions all in Washington’s time. Mrs. Holstein’s at Monmouth, Stony Point, in the Virginia father-in-law, Col. George W. Holstein, was campaign, at Yorktown and in Georgia, his Supervisor of Upper Merion in the early thir¬ successful campaign against the Indians after ties, and, under his direction, the present road the defeat of Harmpr and St. Clair—all there was made in place of that previously existing, are matters of history which are or should be but little more than a bridle path. At that I familiar to all. He died at Erie, December time the spring was discovered, and, in spite 15, 1796, in the fifty-second year of his age. I| of the fact that a later owner of this particular His remains were bhried there but were sub- I tract, who was misinformed as to its an¬ seqnently removed' to St. David’s Church, I tiquity, persisted in calling it the Washington Badnor, where an appropriate monument was | spring, it has recently been, and properly I erected. should be, known as the Holstein spring, and as such should be familiar to future visitors to the spot. It may not bo out of place before leaving the subject of Wayne’s headquarters, to give a brief sketch of the career of the man who From, has made the place famous, by way of filling up the outline already drawn of his character. It is a well kno wn fact that scarcely an im¬ portant movement was undertaken by Wash¬ ington without consulting him, as his letters and other indisputable evidence clearly prove. When the day came to evacuate the Date, camp at Valley Forge, and to march to the Schuylkill and over Sullivan’s bridge on a route that led to Monmonth in pu retreatipg British^ Wayne urged tl of the Delaware immediately, dk army of every article of incumbr vigorous and serious attack on the use his own language.

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