CHILDHOOD 5 



at home, say that General Washington will do 

 himself the honor of paying his respects to her." 

 Dr. Moses Scott, my great-grandfather, was present 

 in many of the battles of the Revolutionary War, 

 notably the battle of Princeton, where he assisted 

 General Mercer when mortally wounded. For 

 General Joseph Warren, an intimate friend, he 

 named his son Joseph Warren Scott. 



Grandfather Scott's place in New Brunswick 

 is about a mile from the station, a little back 

 from the Raritan River, the canal and high- 

 way running between that stream and the front 

 of the place. It is a farm of some eighty acres. 

 A picturesque, winding roadway (laid out by my 

 father and always known as the " lane ") leads up 

 to the house, which stands at quite an elevation, 

 having an extensive river and champaign view. 

 The farm is known as " Buccleuch." This house 

 was built long before the Revolutionary days, and 

 is a type of the colonial mansion of the time, — a 

 spacious building with hipped roof, the gable ends 

 broken by dormer and fan windows. It is appar- 

 ently a wooden house, painted white with green 

 blinds. I said apparently a wooden house, for 

 the walls are lined and built, inside of the wooden 

 cover, of tiny bricks that were brought from 

 Holland late in 1600 or early in 1700. These 

 bricks are about half as big as the ordinary build- 

 ing brick of to-day. Broad verandas extend along 



