Historical sketches of the ten miles square forming the District of Columbia : with a picture of Washington, describing objects of general interest or curiosity at the metropolis of the Union., Part 39

Author: Elliot, Jonathan, 1784-1846. 4n
Publication date: 1830
Publisher: Washington : Printed by J. Elliot, Jr.
Number of Pages: 1114


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1150M. Nourse, Chief clerk, 1700


Jaines Davidson,


1150 Clerks .- J. McClery, ... 1400


John S. Compton,.


1000John D. Barclay,


1400


C. A. Harris .. .


1 wy James Laurie, 1400


Mess'r .- Thomas Dove, Fourth Auditor.


ToolJohn S. Hawe,. Th Alien Mackey, . 1150


Amos Kendall, ........ 300gWilbam B. Randolph, ..


1150


T. I. Gillis, Chiefclerk Clerks .- Win. Hunter,


1400 Lewis Salomon, 1000


Joseph Mechlin, .


100 Joseph Mountz, 1000


Robert Getty, .


1150 William James, 1000


James H. Handy,


1150;Isaac K Hanson, .. 1000 1150 Benjamin F. Rittenhouse 1000


George Gillis,


35


1400 Samuel Baker,. 1000


14001


Carr.


1000


1400 Treasurer.


1700;Francis Lowndes,. . 1150


William B. Lewis, .... J. Eakin, Chief clerk .... Clerks .- J. Wells, jr ... John Peters,.


1.400 William Garrett, jr. 1000 1150| Bailey Buckner, ... . 1000


1150 Hampton C Williams, . 800


548


Executive Officers.


James D. Woodside,. . 1000 James R. M. Bryant, ... 1150


Edgar Patterson, 1000 William Otis, . 1150


Joel: Brewer,. 1000 Charles Tyler, . 1150


French T. Evans, 1000 Frederick Keller,. 1150


Jobe B. Blake, ..


1000 William S. Smith, 1150


John Nourse, 800 Samuel Hanson,.


P. W. Gallandet, 1000


800 Joseph S Collins,


Mesers .- A. McDonald, 800 Wm. Sinu,. 10×4)


James Waren .. .


350 George Wood, 1000


Commiss'r. Gen. Land Ofice. Walter B. Reall,. 1000


George Graham, ..... 3000 Walter H. Jenifer, . 1000


J. M. Moore. Chief clerk 1700 Mess. J. S. Wilson,. .. 700


Cierks-Robert King, .. 1150; 350


Watchmen


Eugene A. Vail, . . 1400


William Simmons, .. 1150.Alexander R. Watson, .. 300


Sterling Gresham, .. 1150 R. B. Boyd, 300


Samuel Davidson King, . 1150 John Kennedy 300


WAR DEPARTMENT.


JOHN H. EATON, Secretary. 86.000 per annum. P. G. Randolph, Ch. ck. 200| Clerks .- W. Dent Beall 1106 Lawrence I. Vankleeck, 1600| Wilhan, Rich, .. .......


1100 James L. Edwards, .... 1600 Messenger-J. Brodbeck 700 Thomas L. MeKenney, . 1600! Ordnance Department.


Gideon Davis. 1400 George Bomford, Col.


Samuel S. Hamilton, ..


1400 Clerks .- Wm. Riddall,. 1150


Benjamin L. Beall,. 1400; John Litle,. 1000


William Gordon. 1400


Edward Stephens, 1000 Subsistence Department.


Hezekiah Miller, . 1000


Wm. S. Allison,- 1000 James H. Hook. Maj. b'st.


Anthony G. Glynn, 1000


James L. Addison. 1000 John Mitchell,. . 800


Daniel Kurtz,. 1000


Daniel Brown,. 800 Riel ard Gott,. Mes'rs .- W. Markward, 650 Surgeon General's Office.


Adjutant Generals Office. Roger Jones, Col. & A. G. W. B. Davidson, .


John Robb, . 800)


Paymaster Generals Office. Nahan Towson, Paym. Gen. T. P. Andrews, Pay mas'r


Clerks.Wm. A. Gordon, 1150 James C. Hanghey, ..... 1000 Engineer Department.


N. Frye, Jr. SWefelert. 179353-Ls tirati 1, Chief Era


Reuben Burdine ..


800


George Gibson, Col.


Clerks .- C. G. Wilcox,. 1350


William C. Easton,. . SOO


Joseph Lovel, Sur. Gen. J. A. Brereton, Surgeon, Clerk .- R. Johnson,. ... 1150 Quartermaster Gen.'s. Ofice.


Brooke Williams,. 1150 Job ..: M. Hepburn,. 1000|T. S. Jesap, B. G. & Q. M. G. T. Cross, Maj. & Q. M.


549


Executive Officers. NAVY DEPARTMENT.


JOHN BRANCH, Secretary. $6,000 per an. Chief Clerk.


Sec.C. W.Goldsborough, 2000


J. W. Clark, ........ . . 2000 ChicfCl. Wm. G Ridgely 1600


1600 Clerks .- John Green ... 1150 1400 Joseph P. McCorkle, ... 1000


1400 Jantes Hatton,. 1000


1000 Robert A. SIve, .. 1000


1000 B. S. Randolph. 1000 1000 Draftsman. C. Schwartz 1000 Messenger. - R. Elliott, 700


Navy Yard Washington.


800 Isaac Hull, M. C. & N. A. 700


Messeng's. Nathan Eaton Wm. B. Shubrick, Corr'd. Frederick Lewis,. 350 Chief Naval Constructor.


Navy Commissioners.


Samuel Humphreys,. ... 3000 Wm. Doughty, ass't .... 2300


Lewis Warrington,. 3500 Naval Storekeeper.


Daniel T. Patterson, . 3500 Carey Selden, .. .. .. 1700


GENERAL POST OFFICE.


W. T. BARRY, Postmaster Gen. $6,000 per ann. .Assistant Postmaster Generals. Presley Simpson,. .. . 1000 Charles K. Gardner,. . . . $2500 Grafton D. Hanson, ..... 1000 Selah R. Hobbie, ...... 2500; Walter D). Addison, .... 1000 O. B. Brown, Chief clerk 1700 Andrew M. D. Jackson, 1000


Clerks .- Thos B. Dyer. 1400;Arthur Nelson,. .


Joseph W. Hand,


1100;Lemuel W. Ruggles, .. . 1000


John Suter,. 1400John W. Overton,


John McLeod, ..


1200 Samuel Gwin, .. 1000


William G. Eliot,.


1200 - Douglass,. 1000


M. T. Simpson,


P. S. Loughborough, .. 1100 Francis &. Blackford, .. 1100John D. Whitwell, ·


Nicholas T'astet,


1100 Thomas E. Wegg


William Blair, ..


1100 John A. Collins, .


Themas Arbuckle,


1000Joseph Sherrill.


Josiah F. Caldwell,


In John F. Boone, ..


Joseph Haskell,.


1000 Edmund F. Brown, ..


Samuel Fitzhugh,.


1000'John G. Johnson,.


Wm. C. Elison,.


1000 William French, .


William Deming,.


1000 John L. Storer,.


William C. Lipscomb, ..


1000 James HI. Doughty,.


Matthias Ross,.


1000 James Coolidge.


Thomas B. Add son, 1000 Charles S. Williams, .. .. 1000) . Messy'rs .- J. Borrows,


Darid Koones,


00


Clerks .- John Boyle ... Christopher Andrews, .. Richard B. Maury, ..... Thomas L. Ragsdale .... Thomas Miller,


John D. Simms, .. . . R. H. Bradford, Sec'y. N.


Pen. and Hosp'l. Funds John S. Nevius, . ..


John Rodgers,. 3500


1000


David Saunders,.


Richard Dement,.


Xnacp.


ALEXANDRIA-Account of-assessment and council, 266


PAGE' Capture of-Terms-estimate of loss, &c. - - 477


BANKS, in Washington-their condition Dec. 31, 1829 Washington, Metropolis and Patriotic, 226 to 227


In Georgetown-Farmers, Union, - 228


in Alexandria-Alexandria, Potomac, Far- mors, Mechanics, -


229 to 230


- 231


United States Bank,


.BURYING GROUND, NATIONAL- List of Members of Congress interred, monuments inscriptions, &c. - 408 to 410


CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL-


Repori, plan, and estimate, at large, - 339 to 556 Fasteri Section, from Georgetown to Cumb'd. 356 to 366 Middle Section, from Cumberland to the month of Casselman's river, - - 367 to 374


Western Sectior, from the mouth of Cassel-


375 to 330 man's river to Pittsburgh, - General reflections on the nature of the work, population interested in its execution and


completion, products to be transported, 3S1 to 402 Estimates compared (Bernard's, and Geddes and Roberts') - - 403 -


Acts of Incorporation, &c. - 404 to 406 407


Amount of subscriptions, public and private, Ceremonies on breaking ground, on the 4th July, 1528, -


- 407


Opening two miles of the Canal rouns the Lit- te Falls, on Zu March 1530, - -


- 407


Account of Rush's Holland Loan of $1,500,000 409 The public convention roufying it, - 410 -


The private


do


-


- 411


List of officers, sections and names of contractors, - 415 Concluding remarks on the Georgetown cut- ting, locks, Rock Creek basm & Mole,


414 to 418 CHURCHES-


Catholic, Episespal, & Methodist Episcopal, 211 to 218 Presbyterian, Baptist, Unitarian, & Quaker, 219 to 221 CITY OF WASHINGTON -


Selection of site by Gen. Washington-extent, - 92


Approach from Baltimore,


-


-


-


93


Bird's eye view, &c. -


- -


94


Laying the corner stone of the Capitol, -


97 - City boundaries -- L'Enfant's plan, &c. - 95


index. 551


CITY OF WASHINGTON --


Direction of squares, avenues, and streets, 99 to 102 Incorporation and organization of city gov't. - 103


Proposed monument to the memory of its immor- tal founder, -


-


105


City Hall-Finances, - 186-87


193


Expenditure-Estimate of private & public property Corporation officers, Courts, &c. -


- 195


Commerce, - - - 196


- 197


Diseases and deaths in 1822,


199-200


Weather-Meteorological table for 1828-29 -


201


Jail-Penitentiary, 202 to 210 -


Amusements, assembly rooms, mechanic arts, &c. 257 Improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue, - - 49.3


Sale of Public lots, - 484


Expenditures in detail, byU.S.from 1800to1828, 485 to 456 - 486 Distances from Capitol to Public offices, -


Charter of Washington, - 487 to 194 -


1)o Amendatory - 494 to 07 Corporation Laws-abridgement of-


Accounts, Assessments, Auctions, -


- 40S


Bread, billiard tables, brokers, building,


500 to 501 502 (0 503 501 to 567


City Hall, collectors, commissioners, Council, dogs, fire companies, flour, gaming, Hackney carriages, hawkers and pedlars, - Lotteries, markets, negroes and mulattoes, Nuisances, poor and infirm persons, racing, Retailers, schools, shooting, slaves,


508 to 510 510 to 511


512 to 514


Slaughter houses, small pox, taxes,


514 to 512


Theatres, trees, vagrants, weighing, wood, COLLEGES-


Columbian-Medical department of do. - 235 to 215


Georgetown College, Convent, - 245 to 250


Professor Koblman's account of the Miracle of Mrs. Anne Mattingly. - - 252 CONGRESS, 21st -- List of the-1st Session- With their counties and post offices at home and residence in Washington, Committees, 5.31 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA- 9


Situation-Latitude-Location -- Linits, -


Proprietors, (19 originally )


10 & 529


Aboriginal inhabitants-Manahoacs and Monacans, 11 Greenleaf's Point their fishing ground &c. -


12 Indian History, fragment of' Smith's adventures with the Powhatins, - 13 to 16


317 to 519


-


Improvements in 1329,


-


-


552


Index.


DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-


Cession by Maryland and Virginia, 16 to 18


Bill locating the ten miles square-yeas and nays - 18


Act establishing the seat of Government, -


19 to 20


Washington's proclamations of 1791,


-


21 to 25


Ratification by Maryland, Dec. 19, 1791, - 25 to 32


Soil-Slashes-Jesse Brown's garden, &c. 33 to 36


Climate, 36 to 43


Geology and Mineralogy, 43 to 50


District Laws-Committees' report on, of March 1830-


[First Congress met at Philadelphia in 1774,]


-


519


Public offices opened, President's first speech, - 5.20


Orphans' Court, appeals from to Circuit Court, - 521 Old Maryland criminal statutes now in force, - 522


Trial of civil and equity cases, -


523


Justices of the peace,


- 524


Gaming, vagrants and panpers, -


- 526


Appointment of commissioners, - 528


Proposed to be represented by a delegate, - 529


Nisi prius system recommended, - - 530 DRAINAGE of CITY LOTS, by Latrobe & King, 331 to 333 EXECUTIVE OFFICERS-List of --


Their duties, - 542 ʻ


National Trophies in War Department-flags taken in revolutionary, and late, war, - 171


French Civil Flag presented by Adet in 1795, with Gen. Washington's address on receiving it, -


173


Banners in navy department, - -


175


GEORGETOWN-City officers, &c. - -


259 to 263


Valuation and Assessment, - - 264 to 265


GREENLEAF'S POINT-


Arsenal, store houses, quarters, workshops, - 182 Particulars of the explosion there in 1814, - 183


INVASION OF WASHINGTON- With general remarks, 448 & 410


Perry's complimentary notice of District militia, - 450


Benedict, Nottingham, &c. -


- 452


Camp at Battalion Old Fields-Skirmish at Marlborough, - 453 to 455


Further advance of the British, -


-


- 457


Battle of Bladensburgh, -


- 461 to 466


Retreat of the Americans, -


- . 467 Supposed estimate of forces, -


- 468 to 475


Barney's Letter,


471 to 473


Index.


55$


INVASION OF WASHINGTON- Mr. Madison's Proclamation, - 475


Estimate of public property destroyed, -


- 476


MAUSOLEUM, -


- 310


MOUNT VERNON-


House, gardens and grounds, tomb, -


- 298


Lafayette's visit to the tomb of Washington, 306


Orphan Asylum, -


320 Taverns, - -


- 321


NAVY YARD ---


Buildings, shops, armory, &c.,


-


-


176 Monument and its mutilation, - 180 to 189


ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE --


Of Gen Washington in relation to the city, - POTOMAC RIVER-Source, -


50


Jefferson's description of Harper's Ferry, -


51


Volney's description of


do


-


53 to 55


Great Falls,-Little Falls, or Rapids -


-


56


Eastern Branch, Tyber Creek, &c. -


- 5S


Breadth and Depth, - 59 -


63 to 66 - 66


Late Potomac Company, -


-


-


Transportation, rates, -


-


-


70 to 83 -


Winding up of Potomac company, shares, tolls,


8$ to 58


Deed of surrender,


89 to 91


Water Fowl ( Potomac sport) canvass backs 59 & 436 to 444 Swan, wild goose, red head shoveler, black head shoveler, mallard, blue wing teal, green wing teal, widgeon, the sora, or ortolan, &c., - 431 to 444


Fich, shad, herring, rock, sturgeon, 61 & 419 to 425


Description of a fishing landing, (season, from March to middle of May, ) quality, man- ner of curing, &c. 425 to 427 PUBLIC BUILDINGS-


Cabitol, commencement, architects, &c., -


107 Enclosure, exterior, &c. - -


- , 108 Dimensions, - -


-


109


Representatives' Hall, columns, ceiling, speak- - 109 to 112 er's chair, clock, ornaments, &c.


Senate Chamber, - -


-


-


-


1


Embellishments of do-Sculpture ---


1. Preservation of Capt. Smith by Pocahontas by Capellono, 11.3


-


First Exploration, anecdotes of, &c., -


69-70


Low water survey, -


- 1: Rotundo, -


554


Index.


PUBLIC BUILDINGS-Capitol-Rotundo-Sculpture- 2. Landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, by Causici - 116


3. Conflict between Boon and the Indians, by do. 117


120


4. Penn's Treaty with the Indians, by Gavelot, - Columbus, Cabot, La Sale, 123 -


Paintings by Trumbull-notes on them, - -


122


1. Declaration of Independence, -


- 124


2. Surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, -


- 127


3. Surrender of the British at Yorktown, - 131


4. Gen. Washington's resignation, Dec. 28, 1783, 134


General remarks, 138 to 141


Small rotundo and vestibules-" cotton & tobacco orders, " -


- 142


Library description of the room, Books, &c.,


- 14.3


French Medals, series from 1796 to 1815, forming a medallie history of the battles and events of Bonaparte.


- 146


American Medals,


-


- 149


Supreme Court, -


- 150


East Front-Tympanum, -


- 152


Cupola, Crypt, Casemate arches, - 155 to 157


President's House-plan and situation, - 150 Saloon, East Room, Cabinet Room, 160 to 168 -


164


Public Offices-State, treasury, war & navy, Indian gallery of portraits and curiosities,


- 165


Miscellaneous objeets, treaties, and library, in state department-and the patent office, Military medals by Furst in war depart't. PUBLIC PRESS,


- 169


- 171


PRICE OF PROPERTY-City and country,


-


SCHOOLS in Washington,


256


BEATS, &c. - Mansion square, Gen. Van Ness's, Seat of S. HI. Smith, Esq.


- 273


Seat of George Calvert, Esq. ( with a sketch of Lord Baltimore's history, ) -


. 266


Bladensburgh, 1 -


- 284


Hayes -- the seat of II. Dunlop, Esq. -


. 285


Kalorama-seat of Col. Bomford, - -


- 280


Meridian Hill-seat of J. Florentius Cox, Esq. 'lum's Vineyard, - - -


- 286


- 288 en's Island, - -


'on House-seat of G. W. P. Custis,


mits of Washington, &c. - 290 to 297 -


287


"AGES, &c. - -


- 514


- 313


· 270


HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE TEN MILES SQUARE, FORMING THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.


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The subjoined, among other friendly testimo- nials, relative to this work, have been received:


From the Commissioner of the Public Buildings.


MARCH 22d, 1830.


Srn: I have read with much pleasure your Historical Sketch- es of the Ten Miles Square, and City of Washington. It con- tains much useful and curious information, collected from the most authentic sources. But it is chicây in reference to your history and description of the Public Buildings, that I can bear ' testimony to your fidelity.


Accept my thanks for your book, and best wishes that it may prove as profitable to the publisher as to the reader.


JONATHAN ELLIOT, Esq. J. ELGAR.


From the Mayor of Georgetown, D. C. GEORGETOWN, April 11, 1830.


Dear Sir: I have been much gratified this morning by the perusal of your work, " Historical Sketches of the Ten Miles Square." A residence of nearly a third of a century has given me an opportunity of judging of the general correctness of your description as well as statistical facts. It contains much useful information that ought to be in the possession of every family in the District; and, like the " Picture of London, " should be in the hands of all visiters to this little world, whether on busi- ness or for amusement.


Most respectfully, your obedient servant, JONATHAN ELLIOT, Esq. JOHN COX.


From the Clergy of the District.


WASHINGTON, AprA 15, 1830.


Mr. ELLIOT: Having cast my eye over your Sketch of the District of Columbia, it gives me pleasure to say that I was " highly gratified with the correctness of the statements, and des- criptions, so far as I am qualified to express an opinion of


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them, particularly in respect to what relates to the Episcopal churches.


WM. HAWLEY, Rector of St. John's Church.


WASHINGTON, April 19, 1830.


· Dear Sir: I have perused with much gratification your in- teresting work, " Historical Sketches of the Ten Miles Square." Your account of the Catholic Churches in this city is perfectly correct. Respectfully, your humble servant,


W. MATTHEWS,


Mr. ELLIOT. Rector of St. Patrick's.


From the Mayor of the City of Washington. WASHINGTON, April 30, 1830.


Sir: I have hastily glanced over the work which you have kindly brought to my notice, with more attention of course to what immediately concerns the City of Washington than to the other parts of it. I find the volume full of valuable and in- teresting information, and containing much that was new and curious even to me, who have been a resident of the city for more than two and twenty years, during which I have been not altogether an idle spectator of its rise and progress. I cannot doubt that the public will recompense your labor and enter- prize in this undertaking. Your's very respectfully,


JONATHAN ELLIOT, Esq. JO. GALES, Jr.


From the late Architect of the Capitol of the United States. WASHINGTON, May 1, 1830.


Sir: I have examined your late publication, " Historic:1 Sketches of the Ten Miles Square," and am gratified in find .- ing it to contain so many interesting particulars relating to the District of Columbia, and the City of Washington. It is such a guide and compendium as is almost indispensable to stran . gers, and contains particulars not generally known to the re- sidents of the place. The carly correspondence of President Washington is an evidence of the interest which he felt in the location and advancement of this city. The description of the public buildings, and statistical information, I believe to be correct. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,


JONA. ELLIOT, Esq. CHARLES BULFINCHI.


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