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belonging to the historian George Bancroft; a pair of brass-headed 

 andirons, a brass fire fender, a pair of bronze lamps, a pair of French 

 gilt candelabra, and six pieces of cut glass, all of the early part of the 

 nineteenth century; and many other household articles. 



Another important loan, made by the Misses Long, of Washington, 

 consists of memorials of the Bradford family of New England, 

 formerly owned by Alice Southworth Dearth, a descendant of Gov. 

 William Bradford, of the Massachusetts (Plymouth) colony, and 

 Lady Alice Southworth. It comprises, among other things, 28 pieces 

 of silverware, 54 pieces of china, including old English, colonial, and 

 Davenport ware, a hand-painted fan, and various articles of wear- 

 ing apparel, laces, veils, and jewelry used during the colonial period; 

 an invitation to Maj. William Bradford, of the Continental Anny, 

 to dine with Gen. Washington, written about 1779; a letter to Maj. 

 Bradford from Col. Alexander Scammell, of the Continental Army, 

 dated in 1779; a letter to Maj. Bradford from Golden Dearth, dated 

 in 1807, requesting permission to pay his addresses to the former's 

 daughter, Eliza Bloom Bradford ; the commission of Golden Dearth 

 as captain, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, in the Rhode Island 

 Militia in 1820; and many miscellaneous articles of domestic use 

 in the Bradford family during the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- 

 turies. The collection also contains a set of antique fire irons of the 

 early part of the eighteenth century ; an oil sketch of the old Brad- 

 ford house near Austerfield, England; two silver dessert spoons 

 which belonged to Eliza Bloom Bradford; a silver sugar bowl and 

 cream pitcher, both exquisitely chased and hand wrought, which 

 belonged to Abby Taylor, the daughter-in-law of Golden Dearth; 

 and 32 pieces of earlj^ American cut glass from the Isaac Chauncey 

 Long collection. 



A collection of relics of the Washington and Ball families, deposited 

 by Pay Director R. T. M. Ball, United States Navy, in his name and 

 that of his sisters. Miss Mary Randolph Ball, Mrs. W. F. Hill, Mrs. 

 G. C. Lane, and Mrs. J. S. Baughman, includes a pair of epaulets 

 worn by Washington during the French and Indian War, 1755, 

 when colonel in the Virginia Militia and volunteer aid on the staff 

 of Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock; a Masonic apron belonging to, and 

 an epaulet worn in the War of the Revolution by, Col. Barges Ball 

 of the Continental Army, cousin of Washington, and for a time 

 volunteer aid on his staff; a fragment of a flag carried by the 

 forces of Col. Ball in the War of the Revolution; a gold mourning 

 brooch owned by Mary Ball, the mother of Washington; and a 

 snuffbox of hardwood, presented by the Marquis de Lafayette to 

 his godson, Fayette Ball, in 1824, while visiting at the Ball home 

 in Loudoun County. Va. 

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