The Story of Cornwallis's Buckles dolph) Smith's youngest son, Richard Penn Smith, the poet, was born and in which, it is said, Washington had sat to Gilbert Stuart for his portrait, that Dr. Smith died on May 14, 1803." After the death of Dr. Smith, his son, William Moore Smith, removed with his family to the estate at the Falls of the Schuylkill which he inherited from his father. There he died in 1821 and there his widow, Ann (Rudolph) Smith, lived until her death on October 8, 1846, in her eightieth year. It was in this house that Sarah May (Hobart) Rutter as a child visited "Ann Rudolph," her great-grandmother, and heard, among other stories of the Revolution, her favorite, that of Cornwallis's buckles. One day late in the life of Mrs. Rutter (1838-1924), she asked her son to take her to the Falls of Schuylkill to see once more the old home where she had so often visited her great-grandmother. The house at that time, about 1920, was occupied by strangers who received the descendants of the original owners hospitably and took them through the house. Mrs. Rutter went straight to the room in which she had heard the story she so loved to hear as a child, walked over to a window, and said to her son: "Here is where my great-grandmother used to sit in her chair by this window and tell me the story of Cornwallis's buckles."" It was soon after this visit to the old home that Mrs. Rutter, at her son's request, wrote the story from her memory of it as told to her by Ann Rudolph approximately seventy-five years 18 The family tradition that Washington sat for his portrait to Stuart in the home of William Moore Smith was set forth by Horace Wemyss Smith in his Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D., II, 447, and again by William Ives Rutter, Jr., in his "Washington in Philadelphia," in The $C Book, The Federal Reserve Club, VI, No. 8, Feb. 1925, 147. Horace Wemyss Smith, in writing of the death of the Rev. William Smith, D. D., states that it took place "in the second story front room [of the William Moore Smith house at the southeast corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia], the same in which my father (Richard Penn Smith) was born, and in which Washington had sat to Gilbert Stuart for the portrait now in the Boston Athenaeum. .. ." Horace Wemyss Smith was in error, however, in claiming the Athenaeum portrait as the one painted in the Smith residence. It was the Lansdowne portrait. None of the numerous published works on Stuart's portraits of Washington record this circumstance. " Information courtesy the late William Ives Rutter, Jr. 192