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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 968, 7 May 1872, Page 4

In reference to.some litigation proceeding in New York, relative to the property, amounting to several millions of dollars, left by Madame Jumel, the " New York World" of January 25, has the following curious paragraph : "Is will bo remembered that some time since a story was started by the sensation press to the effect that an illegitimate son of George Washington was living somewhere in the West. Curiously enough, just after the final exposure of the falseness of this report, a person comes forward and claims that he is really the son of the father of his country. In the course of the litigation now pending in a United l v rates Court in this city concerning the Jumel estate, one of the witnesses, Mr Q-eorge Washington Bowen, yesterday swore that he believed himself to be the son of George Washington. It is proverbially a wise child that knows its own father, and Mr Bowen may perhaps not be precisely the wise child referred to. Still he is said to have a strong personal resemblance to Washington, and the fact that he has never before laid claims to his distinguished ancestry does not favor the supposition that he is now attempting an imposition. It would however, be a curious circumstance if the blood of Washington should still be flowing in the veins of some of those who have hitherto been known as his children only in a metaphorical sense."