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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO 
 THE CAREER OF COL. ISAAC FRANKS. 
 
 Prof. MORRIS JASTROW, Jr. 
 
 University of Pennsylvania, Phila. 
 
 From the Pubucations of the American Jewish Historical 
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PORTRAIT OF IS*AC FRANKS, PAINTED BY GILBERT STUART IN 1802. 
 
 GIBSON COLLECTION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF 
 
 FINE ARTS, PHILADELPHIA. REPRODUCED BY 
 
 PERMISSION OF THE ACADEMY. 
 
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CAREER OF 
 COLONEL ISAAC FRANKS. 
 
 By Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr., University of Pennsylvania, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Some time ago, the Council of this Society learned through 
 its president, the Hon. Oscar S. Straus, of the existence of 
 papers relating to the career of Isaac Franks. These papers 
 were at the time in the possession of George W. Huffnagle, 
 of New Hope, Bucks Co., Pa., a grandson of Isaac Franks.* 
 By resolution of the Council, the writer was deputed to com- 
 municate with Mr. Huffnagle, with a view of examining and, 
 if possible, of obtaining copies of these papers for the purpose 
 of issuing them in the Publications of our Society. 
 
 Mr. Hufinagle, in response to a letter, forwarded copies of 
 some of the papers in his possession, and declared his willing- 
 ness to lay the remainder before me at some future time. 
 Illness prevented Mr. Huffnagle from making an appoint- 
 ment for a visit which I was anxious to pay him, and last 
 winter Mr. Huffnagle died. His son, the Rev. John C. 
 Huffnagle, residing in Imlaystown, N. J., most generously 
 offered to place at our disposal all documents in his posses- 
 sion that might be of any use, and as the result of a visit 
 paid to Mr. Huffnagle, I am privileged to lay before you a 
 number of documents — in all 33 — which enable us to follow, 
 in somewhat greater detail than was heretofore possible, the 
 career of one who served the cause of American independence 
 most honorably and for this reason deserves to be remem- 
 bered. The thanks of our Society are eminently due to the 
 Rev. Mr. Huffuagle, for his kindness in permitting me to take 
 
 * The daughter of Colonel Isaac Franks, Miss Sarah Eliza Franks, 
 was married to John Huffnagle, of Lancaster, on Sept. 9, 1806. 
 
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 whatever papers I desirtd with me and to have copies of 
 them made. 
 
 The documents may be divided into seven classes : 
 
 (1) Illustrating the Revolutionary career of Colonel 
 Franks. 
 
 (2) Referring to a claim made by him against the United 
 States in 1812, for an error in his favor, in his accounts 
 as Forage Master of the garrison of West Point, — a posi- 
 tion held by him from the 1st of January, 1778, to the 5th 
 of September, 1781. 
 
 (3) Applications for appointment to office under the 
 United States Government, 1812-1813. 
 
 (4) Commissions from Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Penn- 
 sylvania, («) as a Notary and Tabellion Public, 1789 ; (6) as 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Regiment of Philadelphia, 
 1794; (c) as Justice of the Peace in the county of Phila- 
 delphia, 1795. 
 
 (5) Papers relating to the renting of Colonel Franks' 
 house in Germantown to President Washington, 1793. 
 
 (6) Applications for a pension from the United States 
 Government, 1818-1819, and certificate of pension. 
 
 (7) Miscellaneous documents, bearing on his relations to 
 his children, biographical notices and the like. 
 
 The documents in the first six classes formed part of 
 Colonel Franks' own papers ; those in the seventh class 
 emanate only in part from him, a number having been 
 collected by his grandson, George W. Huifnagle. Among 
 the latter is a biographical notice, copied from an unknown 
 source, which gives an epitome of his career : 
 
 " Isaac Franks, son of Moses and Sarah Franks, was born 
 at the city of New York on the 27th of May, 1759. He 
 embarked in the Revolutionary contest of 1776 between the 
 colonies and the kingdom of Great Britain, and served 
 under Washington with the reputation of a gallant, brave 
 and useful officer during the whole of the American Revo- 
 lution, during which he received several wounds. After the 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 9 
 
 peace of 1783 he filled various civil commissions, and was 
 the intimate friend and companion of Washington, who, with 
 his family, spent the summers of 1793 and 1794 with Colonel 
 Franks* at his residence ... in Germantown. Colonel Franks 
 died on the 4th of March, 1822, of a pulmonary complaint, 
 being at the time Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of 
 Philadelphia." \_sic .'] 
 
 In connection with an application for a government 
 pension, made in 1818 (Appendix No. 9), which was rendered 
 necessary by his straitened circumstances. Colonel Franks 
 drew up a statement of his services during the war of 
 Independence. A draft of this statement and several 
 copies of the statement itself, formally drawn up and cer- 
 ified to, are among the documents that have come into 
 our possession. From this statement we learn that he 
 entered upon his military career in May or June, 1776, at 
 the early age, therefore, of seventeen. He joined Colonel 
 Lesher's regiment as a volunteer in the city of New York, 
 from which we may conclude that the city of his birth con- 
 tinued to be his residence and that of his parents, until this 
 period. He took part in the battle of Long Island, being, as he 
 says, " in the heat of the battle," and under the immediate 
 command of General Washington. He equipped himself at 
 his own expense, and tells us "'that in July of that year, in 
 parade order, attended the first communication of the Declara- 
 tion of Independence, which was read to the troops, when we 
 all, as with one voice, declared that we would support and 
 defend the same with our lives and our fortunes." 
 
 In the year 1777, he joined the Quartermaster's Depart- 
 ment in the Continental village, a few miles above Peeks- 
 kill in the State of New York, as an Assistant Forage 
 Master. In 1778 he became Forage Master, and was 
 stationed at West Point till 1781, when he entered as an 
 Ensign into the service of the 7th Massachusetts Regiment, 
 
 * Inaccurate. See below. "Washington rented the house from 
 Franks in the winter of 1793-94. 
 
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 then stationed in the garrison of West Point. His certificate 
 of appointment is preserved (Appendix No. 1). It is dated 
 Boston, February 22, 1781, " in the fifth year of the indepen- 
 dence of the United States of America," and is signed by 
 John Hancock and by the latter's secretary, John Avery. 
 The formal commission itself was not received till March 
 12, 1782, but his appointment and rank began on January 
 1, 1781, and continued till June, 1782, when on account of 
 ill health he was forced to resign. He took this step with 
 the approbation of the Commander-in-chief. 
 
 From another statement, signed by Isaac Franks, we obtain 
 some details of his career in Colonel Lesher's regiment. 
 The regiment was annexed to the army of the United States 
 under the command of General Washington. After the battle 
 of Long Island, Franks retreated with the army to New York, 
 and was on the detached guard at the Fly Market on the 
 East river, at the time that the English took possession of the 
 city, September 15, 1776. Franks was taken prisoner, but 
 after nearly three months of confinement succeeded in 
 making his escape. " In a small, leaky skift," he tells us, 
 " with one single paddle," he crossed to the Jersey shore. 
 
 After receiving his " furlough," as he calls it, in June, 
 1782, from Major-General Alexander McDougal, the com- 
 mander of West Point and its dependencies, he visited his 
 friends, and was in the city of Philadelphia when the news of 
 peace arrived.* 
 
 On the 9th of July, 1782, he was married in Philadelphia 
 to Mary, the daughter of Captain Samuel Davison. Four 
 children were born to the couple. Two died at an early age. 
 One, a son, Samuel D. Franks, became Judge of the Court of 
 Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas for the counties of 
 
 *A memorandum on the back of a copy of Colonel Franks' com- 
 mission as Ensign, and also on a draft of one of his statements, 
 reads, "The Preliminaries of Peace were signed at Parris [sic] on the 
 30th of November, 1782, and the ratification of the Definitive Treaty 
 were [sic] exchanged in May, 1784." 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franhs — Jastrow. 1 1 
 
 Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin, and his daughter, Sara 
 Eliza, married Peter Huffnagle of Philadelphia. 
 
 After his marriage, Mr. Franks took up his permanent 
 residence in Germantown, where he purchased a dwelling 
 house (now No. 5442 Main street) which is still standing 
 (Appendix No. 14). For a number of years we lose sight 
 of him. In the beginning of 1789 he was appointed by 
 Governor Mifflin of Pennsylvania "a Notary and Tabellion 
 Public" for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Appendix 
 No. 3). It was presumably from the fees attaching to this 
 office, that he derived an income which supported him and 
 his family. At all events for about twenty-five years after 
 the close of his military career, he appears to have been 
 in a prosperous condition. In 1784 we find him associ- 
 ated with Benjamin Rush in the purchase of" 19 tracts" of 
 land in Westmoreland Co. (now Indiana), and he continued 
 to hold these lands as late as 1804. 
 
 In 1794 he was honored by Governor Mifflin with an 
 appointment as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Regiment 
 of Philadelphia County Brigade of the Militia of the Common- 
 wealth of Pennsylvania. It is through this appointment that 
 he became generally known as Colonel Franks (Appendix 
 No. 4). 
 
 In 1795 he received another appointment at the hands of 
 the same Governor Mifflin, this time to the office of "Justice 
 of the Peace in the District consisting of the Townships of 
 Germantown and Roxborough in the county of Philadel- 
 phia" (Appendix No. 5). But previous to this, he must 
 have engaged in some undertaking that led him to Bethle- 
 hem, for in the winter of 1793 we find him setting out from 
 that place for a short visit to his Germantown residence. 
 The occasion of the visit was a note received from President 
 Washington, who desired to rent the house during the prev- 
 alence of yellow fever in Philadelphia when, as is well 
 known, the seat of the United States Government was 
 removed to Germantown. On November 6, Mr. Franks 
 
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 sets out with his wife from Bethlehem, in order to put his 
 house in order. The negotiations are completed and, in 
 December of the same year, Franks pays another visit to 
 Germantown, in order to ascertain how long the President 
 intends to occupy the house. Among our documents are 
 two copies of the bill ]Mr. Franks presented to Washington 
 for two months' rental and sundry expenses (Appendix 
 No. 13). The owner is careful not to omit any item, and 
 some of the charges are exceedingly curious. Whatever 
 may have led Franks to Bethlehem — perhaps the prevalence 
 of the plague in Philadelphia — he returned to Germantown 
 and appears to have stayed there until early in this century. 
 Then for some reasons unknown to us, he removed to 
 Ephrata, Lancaster County. 
 
 In October, 1802, we still find him at Germantown. At 
 that period Gilbert Stuart finished an oil painting of Mr. 
 Franks, which was presented to the latter by the artist.* There 
 are bills paid to Mr. J. Rowan of Philadelphia for tuition for 
 Mr. Franks' daughter, dated December 15, 1802, and March 
 15, 1803. Between the latter date and 1806 the removal to 
 Ephrata takes place. He evidently regards Ephrata as his 
 permanent residence, for in a letter, dated May 8, 1806, 
 addressed to his daughter, who was attending a school kept 
 by Mr. and Mrs. Rowan in Philadelphia, he speaks of the 
 time when his daughter will come to reside with him. In 
 the fall of that year, his daughter was married at Lancaster. 
 We find Franks at Ephrata as late as 1812. Things have 
 
 *The painting is referred to by Franks in a memorandum pre- 
 pared by him for his children. It was left conjointly to Samuel 
 and Sara, each one by turns to have the right of possessing it for 
 one year. The picture was sold by G. W. HufEnagle to the late 
 Henry C. Gibson of Philadelphia. By the will of the latter, it 
 has come into the possession of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine 
 Arts. On the back there was pasted a slip reading, "Portrait of 
 ^Ir. Isaac Franks. Presented to friend Isaac Franks as a token of 
 regard by Gilbert Stuart. Germantown, Oct. 1st, 1802." This slip 
 has been framed by the Academy and attached to the portrait. 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jasirow. 13 
 
 not gone well with him. He appears to be in straitened 
 circuiustanees and takes various steps to secure an income. 
 In December, 1811, he puts in a claim against the United 
 States for an "erroneous credit" which he inadvertently 
 gave the United States while serving as Forage Master 
 at West Point. His claim is for |463.12, which with 
 interest up to the date of his claim brings the sum up to 
 almost $1,400. He bases his claim upon the fact that he 
 gave receipts for his pay as Forage Master during his term 
 of service (13 months and 2 days) without first liquidating 
 the same by the scale of depreciation, established by Con- 
 gress on January 2, 1780, and by which all the payments to 
 the army from September 1, 1777, to March 18, 1780, 
 were liquidated and settled (see Appendix No. 6). 
 
 He makes strenuous efforts to secure this claim. First, 
 he applies to the Treasurer of the State of Massachusetts, 
 Jonathan L. Austin, who tells him that if his commission as 
 Ensign in the Seventh Regiment was dated after December, 
 1780, his pay must come from the United States. On 
 December 11, 1811, he sends a formal statement of his claim 
 to Jonathan Burrell, Commissioner for the Quartermaster's 
 Department at New York. In January, 1813, on the occa- 
 sion of a visit to Philadelphia, he M-rites to Charles Jared 
 Ingersoll, representative in Congress, in support of his claim 
 (Appendix No. 7), and refers to the fact that "a memorial and 
 vouchers " in his behalf " had been put into the hands of Mr. 
 Hyneman, then a representative in Congress." Owing to Mr. 
 Hyneman's resignation of his seat, the papers were not pre- 
 sented, but placed in the hands of Jonathan Roberts, a repre- 
 sentative in Congress from Pennsylvania. On March 4, 
 1812, he writes to the U. S. Comptroller, Richard Rush, 
 at Washington (Appendix No. 8), who in reply (March 
 30) sends a copy of Isaac Franks' account to show that 
 the "erroneous item was included and properly settled 
 in that account." Richard Rush in a supplementary note 
 expresses his regard for Mr. Franks and regrets that he 
 
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 caunot serve him. About this time, feeling that the 
 hopes of securing his claim are slight (although he sends 
 a reply to Rush's note), Franks makes application for some 
 appointment in the Quartermaster's Department. He writes 
 to Colonel Clement Biddle, of Philadelphia, under date of 
 March 17, 1812, asking for a certificate. The request is 
 granted, but Franks is not successful in his endeavors. A 
 year later — May 10, 1813 — he applies to Richard Rush for a 
 position in the Comptroller's Office. In his application he 
 refers to his " sincere friend, the celebrated Dr. Rush," and 
 offers his condolence to the son upon the death of his father. 
 In a postscript, he also takes the opportunity of inquiring 
 whether anything has occurred favorable to his " equitable 
 claim against the Treasury." In this quest, too, he is unsuc- 
 cessful, and when next we hear of him, in 1818, he has 
 moved back to Philadelphia and is making an effort, by 
 " reason of his reduced circumstances," to secure a pension 
 from the United States government. His papers are drawn 
 up and certified to on April 8, 1818, by Joseph B. McKean, 
 Judge of the District Court for the city of Philadelphia 
 (Appendix Nos. 9 and 10). Mr. Jonathan Roberts, at the 
 time a member of the Senate for Pennsylvania, is appealed 
 to on December 15th of the same year to take (Appendix 
 Nos. 11 and 12) the claim for a pension " under his patron- 
 age." The interval of eight months between the drawing 
 up of the papers and their being placed in the hands of Mr. 
 Roberts is due to the fact that Congress adjourned in April 
 and Mr. Franks did not wish to trouble Mr. Roberts " late 
 in the session." Mr. Roberts takes the matter up. A note 
 from the Pension Office dated June 22, 1819, and addressed 
 to Mr. Roberts, states that the application will be granted 
 "when proof of his (Mr. Franks') being in reduced circum- 
 stances shall be attached to his declaration." 
 
 On the 14th of December, 1819, the pension certificate 
 was forwarded to Mr. Franks (Appendix No. 2). The 
 pension was fixed at $20 per month, to commence from 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 15 
 
 the date that his papers were drawn up, April 8, 1818. 
 Isaac Franks eujoyed his pension for only four years. In 
 1819 (Feb. 18)* he was appointed Prothonotary of the 
 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and it is a comfort to know 
 that his closing years were thus rendered free from care. 
 He died on Monday, March 4, 1822, at the age of sixty- 
 three, and was buried from his residence, No. 55 Clierry 
 street, on March 6.t 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 A selection from the documents illustrating the career of 
 Isaac Franks is herewith published.^ The publication 
 includes fourteen documents as follows: 
 
 I. Five certificates: (1) as Ensign in the Seventh Regi- 
 ment of Massachusetts ; (2) pension certificate ; (3) as notary 
 and tabellion public ; (4) as lieutenant-colonel ; (5) as justice 
 of the peace. 
 
 II. Franks' claim against the United States : (6) memo- 
 randum and copy of account; (7) letter to Charles Jared 
 Ingersoll. 
 
 III. Application for office : (8) letter to Richard Rush. 
 
 IV. Application for pension : (9) statement of military 
 career; (10) statement made before Joseph B.McKean; (11) 
 letter to Hon. Jonathan Roberts, December 15, 1818; (12) 
 letter to the same, February 22, 1819. 
 
 V. Germantown residence : (13) copy of bill presented to 
 President Washington; (14) statement regarding the history 
 of the property. 
 
 The remainder of the documents have been copied and 
 deposited in the office of the Secretary of the American Jevv- 
 ish Historical Society at Washington. 
 
 * Martin, Bench and Bar of Philadelphia, p. 26. 
 
 fSee Poulson's Daily American Advertiser, for March 5, 1822. 
 Martin gives the date of Franks' death erroneously as March 3. 
 
 tThe spelling of the originals is retained, only obvious slips being 
 corrected. 
 
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 (1) 
 Certificate of Colonel Isaac Franks' Commission as 
 Ensig-n in the 7th Regiment of the Common- 
 wealth of Massachusetts, 1781. 
 
 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
 
 To Isaac Franks — Gentleman Greeting, — Reposing espe- 
 cial Trust and Confidence in your ability Courage and good 
 Conduct, I Do by these presents Constitute and appoint you 
 the said Isaac Franks to be an Ensign in the seventh Regi- 
 ment of Foot — one of the Battalions raised by this Common- 
 wealth to serve in the Continental Army, where John Brooks 
 Esqr. is Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, — You are there- 
 fore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of an Ensign 
 in said Regiment in all things appertaining thereto, observing 
 such Orders and Instructions as you shall receive from the 
 Commandant of said Regiment or any other Your Superior 
 Officers, for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant till 
 you shall receive a Commission in manner and form pointed 
 out by the Resolves of Congress of March 8th and June 28th, 
 1779. — Dated at Boston this twenty-second of February one 
 thousand seven hundred and eighty one, in the fifth year of 
 the Independence of the United States of America. 
 By His Excellency's command, 
 
 John Hancock. 
 
 John Avery, Secy. 
 
 (2) 
 Pension Certificate. 
 
 War Department. 
 
 Revolutionary Claim. 
 
 I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United 
 States, of the 18 th March 1818, Isaac Franks, Late an 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 17 
 
 Ensign in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on 
 the Pension List Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, at the 
 rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the Eighth 
 day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
 
 Given at the War office of the United States, this four- 
 teenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and 
 nineteen. 
 
 C. Vanderventer, Acting Secretary of War. 
 
 On the back of this certificate: 
 
 [Seal of the Payable semi-annually. The first pay- 
 
 United States ment on this Certificate will be made on the 
 War Office.] 4th of March next, in Philadelphia, at the 
 Bank of the United States. 
 
 (3) 
 Commission as Notary and Tabellion Public. 
 
 [Seal Thomas Mifflin. 
 
 of the State In the Name and by the Authority of 
 
 of Pennsylvania.] the Freemen of the Commonwealth of 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 The Supreme Executive Council, of the said Commonwealth. 
 
 To Isaac Franks, Esquire, of the Oity of Philadel])hia — 
 [Coat o^ Arms We, reposing especial Trust and Confi- 
 of dence in your Prudence, Integrity and 
 
 Pennsylvania.] Abilities, have appointed you the said 
 Isaac Franks a Notary and Tabellion public in and for the 
 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. You are therefore by these 
 presents commissioned to be a Notary and Tabellion Public 
 in and for the said Commonwealth — to have and hold the 
 said office of Notary and Tabellion Public — With all the 
 Rights, powers, and emoluments to said office belonging, or 
 by Law in any Wise appertaining, until this Commission 
 shall be legally revoked. 
 
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 Given in Council, under the Hand of His Excellency 
 Thomas Mifflin, Esquire — President, and the Seal of the 
 State at Philadelphia, this seventh Day of February in the 
 year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty- 
 nine. Attest : Cha^. Biddle, Sec^. 
 
 [Enrollment Inrolled in the Rolls office of the State 
 
 Office of of Pennsylvania In Commission Book No. 1, 
 Pennsylvania page 224, &c. "Witness my hand and Seal of 
 Seal.] office the 10th February, 1789. 
 
 Math^^. Ir^vin, 31. R. 
 
 (4) 
 Commission as Lieutenant Colonel. 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 In the Name, and by the Authority of the Commonwealth 
 of Pennsylvania, 
 
 Thomas Mifflin, 
 
 Governor of the said Commonwealth, 
 To Isaac Franks of the County of Philadelphia Greeting: 
 
 Know That you, the said Isaac Franks 
 [Coat of Arras (being duly elected and returned) are hereby 
 of Commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 
 
 Pennsylvania.] Second Regiment of Philadelphia County 
 Tho. Mifflin. Brigade of the Militia of the Common- 
 wealth of Pennsylvania. To have and to 
 hold this Commission exercising all the powers, and discharg- 
 ing all the duties thereto lawfully belonging and attached, 
 for the term of seven years. 
 
 In Testimony whereof, I have set my Hand and caused the 
 great Seal of the said State to be affixed to these Presents, at 
 Philadelphia the Fifteenth Day of July in the Year of our 
 Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-four and 
 of the Commonwealth the Nineteenth. 
 
 By the Governor. A. I. Dallas, Sec. 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 19 
 
 (5) 
 Commission as Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 In the Name, and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of 
 Pennsylvania, 
 Thomas Mifflin, 
 
 Governor of the said Commonwealth. 
 To Isaac Franks of the County of Philadelphia Esq. 
 
 Sends Greeting : 
 [Coat of Arms Know You, That reposing especial 
 
 of Trust and Confidence in your Integrity, 
 
 Pennsylvania.] Judgment, and Abilities, I the said Thomas 
 Tho. Mifflin. Mifflin, have appointed and by these 
 Presents, do appoint and commission you, 
 the said Isaac Franks to be a Justice of the Peace, in the 
 District consisting of the Townships of Germantown and 
 Roxborough in the county of Philadelphia Hereby giving 
 and granting unto you, full Right and Title, to have and exe- 
 cute all and singular the Powers, Jurisdictions and Author- 
 ities, and to receive and enjoy, all and singular, the lawful 
 Emoluments of a Justice of the Peace aforesaid, agreeably 
 to the Constitution and Laws of the Commonwealth. To 
 have and to hold this Commission, and the Office hereby 
 granted unto you the said Isaac Franks, so long as you shall 
 behave yourself well. 
 
 Given under my Hand, and the Seal of the State, at Phil- 
 adelphia this twenty-fifth Day of September in the year of our 
 Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-five and of 
 the Commonwealth the twentieth. 
 
 By the Governor. James Trimble, Deputy Sec. 
 
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 II. 
 
 (6) 
 
 Memorandum of Claim against the United States 
 
 Government. 
 
 Ephrata, Lancaster County, Dec''. 12, 1811. 
 
 In looking over my old Military papers this day, I have 
 
 discovered an Erroneous credit which I have inadvertently 
 
 given to the United States in my exhibited account, against 
 
 myself, of which the enclosed is a copy. 
 
 Viz. "To the first item on the Credit side of my account I 
 
 " have inadvertently given to the U. S. credit for 520 
 
 "dollars |4 Continental Money (as specie) which I 
 
 " received of Col. Bostwick for Pay as Forage Master 
 
 " from the 1 Jan^. 1778 to the 2 feb^. 1779. 13 months & 
 
 " 2 days at $40 p'^ mo. Without first Liquidateing the 
 
 " same by the scale of Depreciation, established by 
 
 " Congress on the 2^ June 1780, and by which all the 
 
 "payments to the Army from the 1^' Septem'" 1777 to 
 
 " the 18*'' March 1780 were Liquidated and Settled. 
 
 My Pay for said item of Service to which said 
 erroneous Credit is annexed, viz. from the 1** 
 Jan^ 1778 to the 2*^ feb^ 1779, 13 months and 
 2 days at $40 p' month is $522..67 
 
 The said 520 dollars f|^ Continental Money By the 
 scale of Depreciation on the 2 feb^' 1779 at ll|-j 
 <^ for 100 dollars is 59..55 
 
 Balance due I. F $463.. 12 
 
 with Interest from 1779* 
 
 * Amount due is fixed at $469.16 {sic !). In another copy, interest is 
 calculated till January, 1812, at $924, making a total sum of $1393 16. 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 21 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 The United States in Account with Isaac Franks. 
 
 D^ 
 
 To my services as Forage Master of the Garrison of AVest 
 
 Point from the first January 1778 to the fifth September 
 
 1781, both days included is 44 Months and 5 days at 
 
 40Dr8 per month 1766-60 
 
 1779. By Pay from CoP Andrew Bostwicke from dollars. 
 the first Jany. 1778 to the 1^ feby 1779 13 months 
 & 2 days 520-60 
 
 Sep' 12, 1779. By Cash on acct. from Col° Clement 
 Biddle C. G. Forage = 1000 dollars Con- 
 tinental Money Equal to 53y2^ 53..22 
 
 By Merchandize from Daniel Carthy A. D. Q. M. G. 
 
 am*^ to X4..2. N. York Money 10..22 
 
 BalP due by the U. S. to Is. Franks 1182..56 
 
 1766..60 
 
 Errors Excepted. 
 
 Philad% Jany 18, 1788. Isaac Franks. 
 
 (7) 
 Letter to Charles Jared Ingersoll. 
 
 Philadelphia, Jan 24th, 1813. 
 The Honorable Charles Jared Ingersoll Esq. 
 
 Sir. 
 
 At the time I did myself the honor to state to you my 
 claim on the U. S. I was not informed that a Memorial & 
 Vouchers in my behalf had been put into the hands of Mr. 
 Hyneman, then a Representative in Congress, who, in con- 
 sequence of his intention to resign his seat did not present 
 them, & on his departure put the same into the hands of 
 Jonathan Roberts, Esq., a Representative in Congress. 
 
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 As I have not heard that Mr. Roberts has acted on the 
 same, I take the liberty, Sir, in consequence of your polite 
 oifer to present my Memorial, to address myself to you, to 
 entreat your patronage, and solicit the favor of you to confer 
 with Mr. Roberts on the subject of my Memorial, so that it 
 be presented. 
 
 The object Sir, of my Memorial is, to rectify an error, 
 made in the settlement of my Acct. by the Commissioner & 
 overlooked by myself. 
 
 The Error is, that I gave credit for 520 dollars ^^^ 
 received as for my pay from the first of January 1778 to the 
 2°*^ of Feb. 1779, whereas that sum being paid me in Conti- 
 nental paper Money, should have been reduced by the Scale 
 of Depreciation, to its specie value, which was but |59.55 
 making an error in my favor of $463. 1 2. 
 
 It appears by the settlement made out by Mr. Burrell, the 
 Commissioner, that he sliped over the Item to which the 
 erroneous credit is annexed, and thecredit with it ; and in place 
 of commencing his settlement of my account from the 1®* Jan. 
 1778, the day on which my services as F. M. commenced at 
 West Point, he, together with the Commissioner's settlement, 
 dates his partial settlement only from the 2°^^ Feby. 79, by 
 which artifice the $520f| was suffered to stand without being 
 reduced by the Scale of Depreciation, as in full for my pay 
 from the 1^' Jany. '78 to the 2°<i Feby. '79, in the manner I 
 inadvertently gave credit for it. But it is evident, although 
 it was nominally so, yet that I was entitled to depreciation 
 having been in service after the 10 April 1780, even in the 
 Department where the Account originated, having continued 
 in that Dept. to Sept. 1781, and afterwards went into the line 
 of the army by Commission, and continued in the service of 
 my country to the end of the war. My impression is, that 
 in Equity, I am entitled to the full benefit of my services and 
 ought to receive the amount of $463yV"Tr with interest from 
 the 2°"^ of Feby. 1779, and that the Acts of limitation can- 
 not affect a claim of this kind. 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 23 
 
 I submit the subject to your good judgment, and rely upon 
 that equal Justice which the Representatives of the nation 
 may have in their Power to dispense. 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 with due respect 
 
 Your very obedient servant 
 
 L F. 
 P. S. Sir. 
 
 The Erroneous credit to which I alude is annexed to the 
 first item on the credit side of my Exhibited Account signed 
 by me and affixed by the Court Genl. & presented the lO^*" 
 Jany. 1788, to Jonathan Burrell, then Commissioner for the 
 settlement of the accounts of the Quarter Master's Depart- 
 ment, & on file in the Office of the Auditor General of the 
 U. S. together with the partial settlement made by the 
 Commr dated the 30*^^ Jany 1788, to which I beg leave to 
 refer & I trust will establish my claim. 
 
 III. 
 
 (8) 
 Application for Office. Letter to Richard Rush. 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 Ephrata near Lancaster May 10*'' 1813 
 Richard Rush Esquire 
 
 Sir. The great loss of my sincere friend, The Celebrated 
 Dr. Rush, the patron of Beneficence, distresses me much. I 
 trust, Sir, that I may deserve from you that friendship that I 
 always experienced from your good father for the last Thirty 
 three years. 
 
 Grieve not at the inevitable moment that separated Him 
 from us. He is happy. May your own end be equally Pro- 
 pitious, and may you when full of years and full of honor, 
 sink down as gently to rest — beloved as sincerely as your 
 happy Father. 
 
24 American Javish Historical Society. 
 
 The last time I was in Philadelpliia iu company with 
 your Father, at his house, I suggested the Idea, that I should 
 like to obtain some imployment [sic] in one of the Public 
 Departments of the U. S. My intimation met his approba- 
 tion, and He set down at his writeing table, and gave to me 
 unsolicited, a general recommendation. Here said He, 
 receive this with my best wishes for your success — I have 
 never made any application to any Gentleman but yourself, 
 nor never shown or made any use of the valuable recom- 
 mendation before this opportunity. I now take the liberty 
 to enclose a Copy, and earnestly solicit an appointment in 
 your Department, or your kind Patronage to obtain some 
 situation for me. I am encouraged Sir, to make my applica- 
 tion to you, because you are the son of my dear deceased 
 Friend, and to whom can a revolutionary officer (I entered 
 the service of my country at the age of sixteen in the year 
 1776, and continued in the service of my country to the 
 end of the war) apply with more propriety than to you Sir, 
 the son of that great Patriot who bore so distinguished a 
 part in the Congress of 1776 and through all the dangers 
 of the American revolution. 
 
 Should you favor me with your attention, you will make 
 me happy, and confer a lasting obligation upon. Sir, 
 Your most obedient 
 
 Servant 
 
 Isaac Franks. 
 
 P. S. Allow me, Sir, to avail myself of this opportunity 
 to inquire, If any circumstance has occured to you, favorable 
 to my equitable claim on the Treasury, to have the erroneous 
 item of credit which I inadvertently gave to the U. S. against 
 myself in my exhibited account rectified, so that I may 
 thereby receive the ballance of that item so justly due to me 
 for my pay for those toilsome services as Forage Master, 
 (for which I only received in value according to the scale of 
 Depreciation about ^59^^^-) for 13 months and 2 days services, 
 from the V^ January 1778 to the 2 february 1779) and 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastroic. 25 
 
 which erroneous Items of Credit the Commissioner (Burrall) 
 skiped entirely over and did not correct nor include the 
 same in the statement which He or his Clerks made out for 
 a settlement of my account. The erroneous item I allude to 
 is the first item on the credit side of my own exhibited 
 account which I sent to the Commissioner for a settlement. 
 With due respect, Your very obedient 
 
 Servant 
 
 I. Franks. 
 Please to direct to me at Lancaster. 
 
 Copy of Doc'' Rush^ Recommendation. 
 
 I have known Mr. Isaac Franks since the close of the 
 revolutionary war in which he bore an active part as the 
 Commander of a company. 
 
 His pursuits since that time qualify him in an eminent 
 degree for an Accomptant, and to do all the duties of a 
 Public office in which a knowledge of figures, bookkeeping, 
 industry, punctuallity and executive business of that kind 
 are required. 
 
 (Signed) Benj^ Rush. 
 
 IV. 
 
 (9) 
 Statement of Military Career. 
 
 A Narrative of the Revolutionary Services of Colonel 
 Isaac Franks-r-who was Born in the City of New York on 
 the 27th day of May, 1759. 
 
 In the month of May or June 1776, the Subscriber 
 Joined Col. Lesher^ Regiment (a six months Reg^) in the 
 City of New York, as a Volunteer — The Regiment was 
 annexed to the Army of the United States under the Com- 
 mand of General George Washington, and the Subscriber 
 was with the said Regiment in the Battle of Long Island 
 and in the retreat with the army from Long Island to New 
 
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 York City, and continued to do Duty with said Eegiment 
 after they arrived in New York and was on a detached guard 
 from said Regiment at the Fly Market on the East River 
 when the Enemy entered and took possession of said city on 
 the 15 Day of Sep'' 1776 and was taken Prisoner and suffered 
 near three months confinement, when on an evening He 
 made his escape, and in the night crossed the North River 
 from the Bear Market at the foot of Division street in a 
 small leaky skiff with one single paddle to the Jersey shore, 
 — In the year 1777, He joined the Quarter Masters Depart- 
 ment, at the Continental Village a few miles above Peeks- 
 kill in the State of New York, as an assistant to the Forage 
 Master Capt. Campbell. The Department was under the 
 Direction of Col. Hugh Hughes D. Q. M. G', and in Janu- 
 ary 1778, the Subscriber was appointed Forage Master of 
 the Garrison of West Point, and its Dependences — In which 
 station He continued to serve and act, until He was 
 appointed a Commission officer in the line of the Continental 
 Army which was some time in the year 1780, or on the first 
 January 1781 when He Joined Captain Mills company in 
 the 7th Massachusetts Regiment as an Ensign — The Regi- 
 ment was then Stationed at West Point — And in October or 
 November 1781 — He was detached on Command to join 
 Captain Gooddale at Fort Verplanks Point, Situated on the 
 North river opposite to Stoney Point, where He continued 
 on Duty until february 1782, when He was relieved and 
 again joined his Regiment at West Point — 
 
 Some time after He received from Major jGi-eneral Alex- 
 ander McDougal the Commander of West Point and its 
 dependences, a Furlough (being the first furlough the Sub- 
 scriber ever applied for during all his revolutionary cam- 
 paign) — He then visited his friends, aud was in the City 
 of Philadelphia when the news of peace arrived — He 
 solemnly declares, that through the whole of his long and 
 arduous Revolutionary services, He always acted with 
 Honor and Strict fidelity — The Subscriber is a Native 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 27 
 
 Born Citizen and never was absent from tlie United States, 
 He never received a Pension — That now by reason of 
 his reduced circumstances, He needs the assistance of his 
 Country. 
 
 Isaac Franks— Philadelphia, April 6'^ 1818. 
 
 For further Evidence, If required — 
 
 Eefer. 1^* The Congress & War office Eegister of Com- 
 missions 
 
 2^ The pay Masters Rolls of the 7*" U. S. Massachusetts 
 Regiment, commanded by Col. John Brooks, Gen^ Patter- 
 son's Brigade ; Stationed at West Point — 
 
 3^ Gen' Washington's Register of Resignations — 
 
 (10) 
 Statement made before Joseph B. McKean. 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 City & County of Philadelphia. 
 
 On this Eight day of April in the year One thousand 
 Eight hundred and Eighteen before me Joseph B. McKean, 
 Judge of the District Court for the City & County of Phila- 
 delphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally 
 appeared Isaac Franks of the same City, who being duly 
 sworn, deposes & says, that he served in the War of the 
 Revolution, against the Common Enemy as an Ensign in 
 the Army on the Continental establishment, above twelve 
 months, without any intermission. 
 
 That he entered the service in the month of May or June 
 1776 and joined Col. Lesher's Regiment in the City of New 
 York (his native City) as a Volunteer. That he was in the 
 Battle of Long Island. And in the year 1777 He joined the 
 Quarter Master's Department in the Continental Village, a 
 few miles above Peekskill in the State of N. Y. as an assist- 
 ant Forage Master to Capt. Campbell. The Department 
 was under the direction of Col. Hugh Hughes D. Q. M. 
 Genl. 
 
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 In January 1778, the Deponent was appointed Forage 
 Master and in the Spring of the same year (1778) was sta- 
 tioned at West Point as Forage Master of the Garrison of 
 West Point & its Dependancies and so continued for several 
 years, until the Month of January in the Year 1781, when as 
 an Ensign he joined the Seventh Massachusetts Regt., then 
 stationed in the Garrison of West Point, in the Army of the 
 United States and afterwards received his commission as an 
 Ensign in said Regiment dated the 12^*^ March 1782 to take 
 rank as such from the 1^* Jan. 1781 and continued in the 
 service till about the month of June 1782, when the deponent 
 resigned with the approbation of the Commander in chief, 
 through the interference of Dr. Samuel Findly the Surgeon 
 of said Regt. Being severely afflicted with the gravel, which 
 still, occasionally, greatly distresses him That by reason of 
 his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of Assistance 
 from his country for support, and that he never has rec'd 
 or been allowed any pension by the laws of the U. S. That 
 he is a native born, and yet a resident Citizen of the U. S. & 
 now resident in the City of Phil'' in the Commonwealth of 
 Penn^. 
 
 I.F. 
 Sworn & Subscribed 
 Before 
 
 J. B. McK. 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 I Joseph B. McKean etc., as aforesaid, do Certify that it 
 appears to my satisfaction that the said Isaac Franks did serve 
 in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceeding declara- 
 tion, against the Common Enemy ; and now transmit the 
 preceeding declaration and testimony had and taken before 
 me, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to 
 the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress. 
 
 (Signed) Jos. B. McKean. 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 29 
 
 The evidence in addition to the Claimant's Affidavit etc. 
 transmitted is : 
 
 1. His Commission as Ensign in the Seventh Massachu- 
 setts Regiment in the army of the United States dated 12 
 March 1782 to take rank as such from 1 Jan. 1781. 
 
 2. Certificate of Clement Biddle Com. General of Forage 
 dated the 19 March 1812. 
 
 (Signed) J. B. McKeak. 
 
 [Seal of the 
 District Court 
 of the City & County 
 of Philadelphia.] 
 
 (11) 
 Letter to Jonathan Roberts. 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 Philadelphia Dec. 15^^^ 1818 
 The Honorab^^ 
 
 Jonathan Roberts Esquire 
 
 Member of the Senate of the U. S. 
 Sir. 
 
 I intended to have addressed myself to you, on the sub- 
 ject of a Pension from the U. S. last spring, but my papers 
 were only prepared by my friend Judge Joseph McKean, 
 when Congress was about to adjourn, then I thought it was 
 too late in the session to trouble you. 
 
 I now beg leave to address you on the subject and to enclose 
 my Declaration and Vouchers, for your examinations, and 
 respectfully solicit the favor of you to take my claim for a 
 pension under your Patronage & and be pleased to have the 
 goodness to present my claim to the Secretary of War. 
 
 My application for a Pension was made to Judge McKean 
 (as he has certified) on the 8"" day of April last agreeable to 
 law, and He is of opinion that the pension will commence 
 from that date. 
 
30 American Jewish Historical Society. 
 
 I beg leave to avail myself of this opportunity to tender to 
 you my sincere thanks for your kind endeavors in my behalf 
 in the year 1814, when my claim on the U. S. was pending 
 before Congress, for arrearage of Pay for my Revolutionary 
 services, which is yet unsettled and a balance due to me from 
 the U. S. of upwards of sixteen hundred Dollars, which is 
 said to be barred, unfortunately for me by an act of Limita- 
 tions. I am sir, 
 
 with great Respect & Esteem 
 your obedient servant 
 
 Isaac Franks. 
 P. S. I am Sir a native born Citizen and a uniform 
 Republican. When Sir, it may be convenient to you to favor 
 me with a reply. Be pleased to direct. 
 
 Col. Isaac Franks, 
 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 (12) 
 A Second Letter to Jonathan Roberts. 
 
 Philadelphia February 22^ 1819. 
 The Honorable 
 
 Jonathan Roberts, esquire 
 Sir — 
 
 Your esteemed favor of the 19**^ of December last, 
 came duly to my hands, adviseing me of your having 
 received the proofs of my revolutionary services, and that 
 you had presented them to the Secretary of War, and you 
 were pleased to observe, that when they were decided upon, 
 you would advise me. Accept sir, my grateful thanks for 
 your benevolent attention. 
 
 Not having received any advice from the War office, and 
 being anxious to enjoy that provision which the Laws of my 
 Country have provided for me, I take the liberty, Sir, to 
 address you again, in order to state some facts of my Revo- 
 lutionary services, which I omitted in my letter to you on 
 the subject of a Pension. 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 31 
 
 In June, 1776, armed and equiped at my own expense, I 
 joined the army in the City of New York, and in July 
 following, in parade order attended the first communication 
 of the Declaration of Independence, which was read to the 
 Troops : when we all as with one voice. Declared that we 
 would Support and Defend the same with our lives and 
 fortunes. 
 
 In August following, I marched with the Army under the 
 immediate Command of General Washington, to Long Island, 
 was in the heat of the Battle, and in the retreat to New York, 
 and continued steadily and actively in the Army of the 
 United States in the Service of my Country from the month 
 of June 1776 until within a few months of the preliminarys 
 of peace in the year 1782, when I was suddenly attacked with 
 the gravel, which occasionally afflicts me to this day. — (See 
 Rush^ letter.) 
 
 The first part of my revolutionary services was as a Volun- 
 teer in the year 1776. The second part, from the first of 
 January 1777, to the 31'* December 1780, Four Years, was 
 in the Quarter Master GeneraP Department, on the con- 
 tinental establishment ; and was in continued active service. 
 — My stations where as follows viz : on the lines of the 
 Enemy in the neighborhood of New York, at the white plains: 
 at the Continental Village, until the enemy took and burnt 
 it ; and at the Garrison of West Point, and its dependences, 
 (see Col. Clement Biddle', certificate of my services) and the 
 last part of my revolutionary services from the first of 
 January 1781. to about June 1782 (seventeen months) was 
 as an officer in the Line of the Army of the United States 
 on the continental establishment, (see my Commission from 
 Congress.) And I do solemnly declare. That all my revo- 
 lutionary services, were steady and active, and performed 
 with Honor and fidelity and without intermission. If sir, I 
 am not trespassing too much upon your time and it will be 
 convenient — permit me once more, respectfully to solicit your 
 patronage with the Secretary of War to enable me to receive 
 
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 my certificate, before you leave Washington — My declaration 
 was made before Judge McKean on the eight day of April 
 1818 — I am Sir — with due Respect — your obedient Servant 
 
 Isaac Franks. 
 
 Y. 
 
 (13) 
 
 Copy of Bill presented to President George 
 Washington. 
 
 An account of Extraordinary Expences, occurred to Isaac 
 Franks in order to Accomodate the President of the United 
 States, with his house, furniture, Beds, etc. in Germantown 
 in consequence of a note received from the President the 
 sixth Nov. 1793 to that purport in a letter from Thos. 
 Dungan of Germantown. 
 
 1793, Nov. 6. Paid for the hire of a light two-horse waggon 
 and driver for six days, at 2 dollars per day, for convey- 
 ing myself & Mrs. Franks to Germantown, from Bethle- 
 hem in order to put my house & furni- 
 ture in a situation to accommodate the ^°^^- 
 
 President 12 
 
 Expences attending the Jurney 18 
 
 For the hire of Beds, furniture, etc. to acom- 
 modate my family during the time the 
 
 president occupied mine 12 
 
 Set out on the 19'^'' Dec. for Germantown 
 from Bethlehem in order to ascertain from 
 the President, how long he intended to 
 keep my house, furniture, etc. that I 
 might accommodate my family and gov- 
 ern myself, accordingly expences attend- 
 ing this jurney & back to my family 10 
 
 Cash paid for Cleaning my house and put- 
 ting it in the same condition the President 
 rec'd it in 2.. 50 
 
Documents relating to Colonel Isaac Franks — Jastrow. 33 
 
 For the damage done to a large double 
 Japand waiter made use of in the service 
 
 of the president 6 
 
 To one flat Iron missing <£0..1..10J 
 
 One large fork @ 2/6 2 ..6 
 
 4 Platters @ 1/ 4 .. 
 
 To 3 Ducks @ 2/6 7 ..6 
 
 4 Fowls @ 1/9 7 .. 
 
 1 Bushel Potatoes 4 .. 
 
 One hundred of Hay 6 .. 
 
 X1..12..101 4..40 
 
 To 2 Months house rent @ 400 D^^ pr Year 66. .66 
 
 Dols. 131..iVv 
 (14) 
 
 G. W. Hufnagle's Account of Colonel Franks' Resi- 
 dence IN Germantown. 
 
 This Dwelling and Residence of Colonel Isaac Franks, Situ- 
 ated in Germantown, pa (phil'^) as follows — 
 
 This Dwelling No. 4782* Main Street Germantown, phil'* 
 pa. was built by David Desler, in 1774 & 75 — and at the time 
 of the Battle of Germantown, it was taken possession of by 
 Sir William Howe Commander in chief of the British Army, 
 as His head Quarters, and here he received a visit from the 
 future King William the 4'*^ then a Midshipman in the 
 British Navy — In 1782 this property was sold by David 
 Deshler [sic'\ to Colonel Isaac Franks, Aid de Camp to Gen- 
 eral George Washington — During the Yellow fever of 1793, 
 The Seat of Government was removed to Germantown pa, 
 and General George Washington rented this Dwelling fur- 
 nished from Colonel Isaac Franks and occupied it with His 
 family. 
 
 In 1804 it was purchased by Elliston and John Perot as a 
 
 * Present number : 5442. 
 
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 American Jewish Historical Society. 
 
 summer residence — and on the death of Elliston Perot, in 
 1834, it fell to his share (John) and became part of his estate. 
 
 His son in law Samuel B. Morris, purchased it soon after, 
 and resided there until his death in 1859, and leaving it by 
 his will to his son Elliston Perot Morris — The present owner 
 who resides in it — (August 1876) 8 month 1876. 
 
 The Residence of General George Washington in 1793. 
 
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