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ars, from a widow Moore, who at that time owned it. In the preparations and progress of the siege it became Washington's headquarters, and one of its ample rooms is still shown as the place where the "articles of capitulation and surrender" were drawn up by Lieutenant-Colonel Laurens, and the signatures affixed by the British and the allied commissioners. Fire, the ruthless destroyer of too many of the valued antiquities of Virginia, has spared the "Moore House," although it is built of wood. Time, too, has touched it gently. Its frame is still sound, and will yet serve several generations. In Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia a picture is given of this house. This estate got the name of "Temple Farm" either from a temple-like structure that Governor Spottswood had erected as a family vault, or from the ruing of a fort built in the previous century. As late as 1834, the walls of the "Temple" were still standing several feet high, but now all traces of them are gone.