October, 1912 
The drawing-room 
him to the South at that very time, and when he returned 
thence the estate had another tenant. Passing through sev- 
eral hands, the property eventually came to General Jona- 
than Williams, of Boston, the Revolutionary worthy, who 
remained there, and his family after him, till the middle of 
the nineteenth century, shortly after which period ‘Mount 
Pleasant” and all the surrounding estates were acquired by 
the city and made a part of Fairmount Park. 
Knowing thus a little of its history, the interior of the 
house, where personal memories seem to cling more per- 
sistently, can be better appreciated. From the moment you 
cross the threshold, fancy, peoples the rooms with a shadowy 
throng of those that once dwelt there or came beneath the 
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This side of ““Mount Pleasant’? commands a view of the Schuylkill River 
The upper hall 
hospitable roof, when some festive occasion drew them from 
the city or the neighboring seats. [here stands the old 
Captain in a cocked hat, his armless sleeve hanging limp at 
his side; here a courtly personage in satin breeches, velvet 
coat and powdered periwig treads a measure with a dame 
arrayed in flowered brocade who nods the plumes of her 
turban coquettishly at her partner in the minuet; there goes 
the gallant Spanish Don in resplendent uniform, and close 
behind him follows a martial figure in whose sour comeli- 
ness can be recognized the betrayor of his country’s trust. 
All these and many more, not forgetting the ebony-faced 
and liveried lackeys, discover their presence to our fleeting 
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