T HE collection of which this portrait was a part was inherited by Mr. W. L. Washington through five family sources, and comprised a very remarkable assortment of relics. Colonel William Augustine Washington, the great-great-grandfather of Mr. W. L. Washington, was the only son of the eldest halfbrother of General Washington, the oldest of his nephews, and the first executor, (after Mrs. Washington) named in his will. Unlike as this portrait is to all the others of the great original, its genuineness is thus certified to by Mr. Charles Henry Hart the critic: "It is painted by Rembrandt Peale and doubtless is one of his trial pictures, painted while he was arriving at his composite portrait of 1823-24. It shows the right side of the face, while the composite portrait shows the left side of the face, which is the familiar Rembrandt Peale's Washington. It is, as are all of the 1823-24 type, of heroic size, that is, larger than life and is to me a new type, for which reason it is of especial interest. It is painted in Rembrandt Peale's usual manner." VOL. XXIV WITH NOTES AND QUERIES NARRATIVE OF ARMY SERVICE IN THE MEXICAN WAR (The late) BRIG. GEN. THOS. W. SWEENY "ARTEMUS WARD" IN NEVADA (1863) . MICHAEL MACDONAGH 46 55 55 64 67 67 Entered as second-class matter, March 1, 1905, at the Post Office at Poughkeepsie, N. Y Act of Congress, March 3, 1870. T HE reason for my theme lies in a personal relation to it. That connection is not of blood-for I do not know that the name appears upon any twig of any branch of my family tree. It is through residence that my interest has developed. In boyhood I romped over Bunker Hill. There lingers in mind an early visit to Noddles Island. Not two miles from the church where hands of ordination were laid upon me-in Old Salem Village, now Danvers-Israel Putnam was born. At a point near my pastoral home arose the tradition of the hiding of an aunt of Putnam's from the fiendish pursuit of those who accused her as a witch. When residing in Somerville, my location was at Winter Hill and close by Prospect Hill-the patriot's camping ground in later times. Before going to Connecticut to find myself again in the "Old Put" country, my ministry was to the church of which Elisha Putnam was a deacon, in the parish where the famous Rufus was born and where Putnams by the score perpetuate the name. In that town-Suttonwe remained long enough to cooperate with Senator George F. Hoar in his cherished plan of erecting a suitable tablet to mark the birthplace of his hero, Rufus, at the old site which overlooks the hill-and-valeland of southern Worcester county. Later I resided near Brookfield, New Braintree, and Rutland, intimately associated with his name. In other words the phanton of the Putnams—or as a more felicitous phrasing would say their blessed presence has been about me. Testimony is available as to the multitude in the family to-day. But this study, through the limits of time, space and physical endurance, will confine itself to the most eminent bearers of the name, Israel and Rufus. ANCESTRY AND RELATION Go back with me then to old Danvers, an interesting spot known by its colonial name, Salem Village. Nearby Hathorne station where |