The Jumel mansion : being a full history of the house on Harlem heights built by Roger Morris before the revolution : together with some account of its more notable occupants

The Jumel mansion : being a full history of the house on Harlem heights built by Roger Morris before the revolution : together with some account of its more notable occupants

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916.

xii, 257 p., [34] leaves of plates : maps, ports., plans, facsim., geneal. table ; 29 cm.

728.09747 S544 1916

(OCoLC)01876371

"This edition printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, is limited to eight hundred copies, of which seven hundred and fifty are for sale."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: The house -- The man who built the house -- When Washington came to the house -- The great fire in New York City -- Nathan Hale -- Events from day to day -- Early military occupation -- Courts martial -- The convention -- The capture of the house -- The British period -- Betsy Bowen -- Madame Jumel -- Back in the Mansion -- Madame Burr -- The Beginning of the End -- a Mad-House -- The Jumel Fables -- Invoking the law -- George Washington Bowen.
78.15.778

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