7/41 Of course the Warren place was much farther north, and this particular locality was only just beginning to be fashionable. "... Let us hope that we will always keep Washington Square as it is today--our little and dear bit of fine, concrete history, the one perfect page of our old, immortal New York."] A friend of the Commissary's, and a truly illustrious visitor at the Hill, was Sir. Jeffrey Amherst, later Lord Amherst. He made Mortier's house his headquarters at the close of his campaigns waged against French power in America. |