A HISTORIC AWORD

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 349, 15 January 1903, Page 3

A HISTORIC AWORD

MNHMNw&fe 9cm m ••weeSAee ®» %|hll tawl* »S» «aa At last eoweatod «• aeS tha award et Wuliingtoa. tm whfeh ih* cnc« refused «s»iOeo, we» «mm4fro» %A«(irt to i keep it feytke gratings «f&baby, and that baby is asrtainly entitled to the money, if bleed aounte for Anything. >. Uxo. Or*«A, Lew, Lewie ; Mann i> th« mother of the baby, and the niece of Mis* Lewi*, who oat oat for BaltAmor« a little *WU ago to aall th« a word. MU* .Lewis has already negotiated by mail and in person with the Metropolitan museum of Ifsw York, but the museum disagrees with her in a matt ter of *BO,OOO. She waat* §IOO,OOO for the heirloom, and Ha offer has not yet gone above the half of thet pries, ttys tha Cincinnati Enquirer. It certainly he* aocompliabsd About enough for o ha sword already. It att tended to the settling of some French: men and doom Indians in a very neat manner, and later ...o* it showed the Britash a trick or two. It might have earned a rest by this time, think, hot so. ft is to bring a neat, price, that Baby Maim may have what feer motbe? calls sao** ;.“moe thing*” when aha pain «§. Tha Mne.by whichMra,. Mann trace# • her connection with George Washing: ton ie a long one, fall of distinguished peo*rie. She ia to . join the Societyrof Colonial Stamen. A lot of people would fire their eyes to be able to aqueest into the Staines by even one ancestor: two make* you a distinqnished member. Look at the name# , an Mrs* Mona’s application: On the paWmat aide she elaims lineal descent from Hon. sohn Lewis, ' Hop. Augustine parner, Col. Lawrence Washington, C*>. Augustine Washing- - On the maternal aid® she elaims lineal descent from Gat. Samuel Ogle, Got. Benjamin Tanker, William Bladen, Col. John Taylor Hon, Henry Corbin. A»y one of these ancestors would entitle her to beeosne a member of t he CeUnlal Passes. All of Ahem together make her tenfold a member, and that ia snore than enough for one 17-yeajr-Bnt further ,hATA George ’Washington J it»yker'i|(MA%-grttat-gre#trigTß-riduncle. Thie comes through the marriage of ‘ Col. Fielding Pewit and Elizabeth Washington, the preeident’s sister. , ■ When--Me#.. Mann was.baptised the .';«Ab*r-r with whkh eh® Wugtarinkletl wan contained la Washing punch bowl. When the baby was, racked a year ago the flame, punch bom made the trip from BaSthnwe ta terra as a font for he*. - To this same small Betty Washington Mann le to come the heritage'of tbe prise of the ancestral sword. It L«A» axhWAed: at the world’s fair, and Mtoft Lands was offered $20,000 for it. Later on it went to. Tiffany’s, and its owner rafueed a much larger sum for H. flhe bee eat her valuation at §IOO,969 end that price she has determined AftSeeeae to California to the little IfTimiihilsilii if tha dUHflguiehsd Mue-