Word: claymont
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...Walter Washington, eldest son of George Steptoe Washington. When the Doctor died, at Hasewood, Virginia, in 1831, the medal became the property of his widow, who finally transferred it to her only son, George Lafayette Washington, who had married the daughter of her brother, Rev. John B. Clemson, of Claymont, Delaware. George Lafayette Washington died six or seven years ago, leaving the medal to his widow, Mrs. Ann Bull Washington, of whom it was obtained by fifty citizens of Boston, who subscribed a sum of money in the total sufficiently large to induce the widow to part with it. While...