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#FBF FLASHBACK FRIDAY – NEWS FROM YESTERYEAR

November 4, 1871 – #150YEARS AGO

Excerpt from Rockland County Journal

WOMEN’S ANECTODES OF WASHINGTON AND ANDRÉ

A WRITER IN Lippincott’s Magazine says:

Many years ago I made my first visit to Washington's headquarters at old Tappantown about half a mile from the “Seventy-Six House.” The ancient edifice was more than a hundred and twenty years old, and although built of stone seemed almost tottering to its fall. It had had four roofs, one on top of the other and from the first lower layer of cedar shingles, I selected powdering specimens, which pulled out easily and have them now among my revolutionary relics.

I entered with my friend, whose guest I was at the time, and who was a resident of the immediate neighborhood. We were courteously welcomed by its then occupants, two elderly ladies who were born in the house.

Nothing could be in more perfect keeping with the mansion than these two venerable women, their name was Ver Bruyck; and I was the more interested in them because I had recently become acquainted in New York with a relative of theirs of the same name, a promising young painter, who was fast increasing his reputation as a very natural artist, and a keen observer of the picturesque. One of his most admired sketches I soon saw was a most lifelike picture of this same old house.

One of the two ladies was over eighty years old, and her sister was seventy-five. They were very lively for persons so aged and were obligingly communicative.

“Did you ever see General Washington?” I inquired of the oldest old lady.

“Oh, yes ---many and many a time,” she answered, “in this very room. He often used to hold me in his lap. I remember it just as well as if it was but yesterday. He was a lovely man, General Washington was. And here,” she continued, going to, and opening a wide cupboard, “he used to keep his ‘things.’ These blue-and-white cheney cups and saucers he used to drink out of; and here's of the very bowl he used to make his wine sangaree into; and they used to pass it around from one officer to another, when they'd come to see him, and they'd help themselves. He seen a good deal of company, General Washington did.”

“Did you ever see Major André?” I asked.

“Oh, yes, more’n fifty times. He was a beautiful man. He kissed me twice. I was a little girl then. I seen him the very morning they took him in onto the top of the hill to hang him. The day before in the morning, I took him up some handsome ripe peaches. He thanked me so kind, and broke one of them open and put it to his mouth and tasted of it. But somehow or another, he didn't seem to have no appetite.”

I asked how General Washington seemed to feel on the occasion.

“Oh, he must have felt dreadful! He walked back’ards and for’ards all the morning in this very room; and I've heard Pop Blauvelt say that he never seen him feel so bad afore. He kept looking at his watch every now and then and was on oneeasy [sic] until the time had come, and Major André was hung. I seen the major myself when he was a-swinging in the air; and I seen him when he was dug up and took away. So did you Polly, too, didn't you?”

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Image: Headquarters of Gen. Washington at Tappan: The House in which Major Andre Was Tried, by Jordan and Halpin (engravers), after Ver Bryck (painter), [reproduction ca. 1830]. Image courtesy of the William Clements Library, University of Michigan.

To read the issue of Lippincott’s Magazine (1871), click link below.

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