Ancienne et Moderne de Germantown, Mount Airy et Chestnut Hill . un d'avoir donné le nom à la terminaison féminine, ainsi que le V au lieu de W. La mémoire de sa grande valeur et excellenceis préservés dans les mémoriaux de Rebecca Jones. Leur seul fils, CasparWistar Haines, est probablement le premier du nom de venir à Germantown.Il a été l'un des initiateurs de l'autoroute, et en devient le trésorier. Hemarried Hannah, fille de Benjamin et petite-fille d'ChristopherMarshall, dont la mémoire ne sera pas disparaître dans cette communauté, car il kepthis Remembrancer célèbre, dans lequel il a enregistré l'e

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Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill . an to have given the feminine termination to the name, aswell as the V instead of W. The memory of her great worth and excellenceis preserved in the Memorials of Rebecca Jones. Their only son, CasparWistar Haines, was probably the first of the name to come to Germantown.He was one of the originators of the turnpike, and became its treasurer. Hemarried Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and granddaughter of ChristopherMarshall, whose memory will not fade away in this community, for he kepthis famous Remembrancer, in which he recorded the events of each daythroughout the Revolutionary War, closing September 24, 1781. The onlyson of Caspar Wistar Haines was Reuben, who came down to nearly our owntime. He married a daughter of Robert Boune, of New York, who was agrandson of Captain John Underbill, of Massachusetts, of fighting memory.Reuben Haines was a member of the Philosophical Society, and, in its firstyear, of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Of this latter he was secretaryuntil his death.. WYCK, THE RESIDENCE OF MRS. HAINES. GERMANTOWN. 149 There can be but little doubt that the house at Wyck was built by DirckJansen before 1700, and perhaps begun earlier by Hans Millan, and that it is, therefore, perhaps the oldest house in Germantown. Considerable additionswere made to it in the last century, and some alterations about sixty yearsago. At that time a huge chimney stack occupied the center of the older halfof the building. When this was taken down two large ovens in it were alsoremoved, one of which had been walled in, so that its existence was unknownto the residents. With the material of the chimnej^ and ovens there was builtan extensive wall at the foot of the lawn. It is a striking looking building, standing with the gable end to the avenue, its front of eighty feet facing south-eastwardl}. Its width varies from twenty feet to thirty. Of immaculatewhite, with a chimney stack outside, this house situated amo

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