[2] Thomas Savage bought the lot at the southwest corner of Church St. and South Battery in 1768 and soon built his house there.
The resulting structure is a nationally important, Georgian style, square, wooden, two-story house on a high foundation.
[3] In December 1785, Revolutionary War hero William Washington purchased the house.
His widow remained until her own death in 1830, when it passed to her daughter Jane, wife of James H.
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