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Lettre signée au nom des citoyens du comté de Shelby,
Shelbyville, Kentucky, 7 mai 1825
3 pp. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. INVITATION À DÎNER DANS
UNE TAVERNE DU KENTUCKY
Invitation de Lafayette à un dîner public à la Taverne de R. Brenham
à Shelbyville : “Our Venerable Sires, who were your Compatriots and
fellow Soldiers, who participated with you in the toils and dangers
and glorious triumphs of the Revolution which resulted in our National
Independence, greet you... Their Children, General, have received
from their lips the Story of your illustrious deeds” avec la signature du
Chairman of the Comitee
, B.W. Ballard, et une liste de noms, avec une
APOSTILLE AUTOGRAPHE DE LAFAYETTE : “adresse de Shelbyville
– Kentucky”
Lafayette stayed at Shelbyville, described by Levasseur as “a
large and flourishing village, situated in the midst of a most
fertile and diversified country”, on the night of 12 May 1825,
while on his way to Cincinnati and soon after the shipwreck of
his boat, the
Mechanic
, in the Ohio river on May 8. (
Lafayette
in America
, II, p. 166).
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Document signé par Sam Churchill et les autres membres du
Committee
Louisville, 11 mai 1825
1 p. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. INVITATION DE LA CITÉ DE
LOUISVILLE, À UN BARBECUE
“We have been appointed by the Committee of arrangements to
supervise a Barbacue” signé par Sam Churchill, Craven P. Luckett,
M. Talbot, L. Laego, C. Harrison, S. Nicholas. AVEC APOSTILLE
AUTOGRAPHE DE LAFAYETTE : “à garder pour mémoire”
Armistead Churchill, was a pioneer settler from Virginia who
settled in Kentucky. His son, Samuel Churchill, married Abigail
Oldham, the daughter of Colonel William Oldham, in Louisville.
Their son Samuel, born in 1812, was Secretary of State for the
Kentucky between 1867 and 1871.
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Document signé par A. Meredith, John C. Richarason,
Benjamin Wasfield, Joseph Robb, Leslie Courbs
Lexington, Kentucky, [mai 1825]
1 p. in-8
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. INVITATION À DÎNER
À LEXINGTON (KENTUCKY) PAR LES “CITIZENS OF
LAFAYETTE COUNTY” : “THEN I’LL GO AND BY A SHIP FOR
MYSELF”
“The undersigned committee appointed on behalf of the citizens of
Lafayette County and town of Lexington solicit the company of Major
General Lafayette suite to partake on this day of a public dinner (...)
who when his sollicitations in the cause of American Liberty were
not met replied : “Then I’ll go and buy a ship for myself”... AVEC UNE
APOSTILLE AUTOGRAPHE DE LAFAYETTE : “invitation à diner à
Lexington”
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Lettre autographe signée du colonel David Meade
Chaumière des Prairies, Kentucky, 16 mai 1825
1 p. in-4
Il regrette d’être incapable de rejoindre ses amis à Lexington pour le
fêter mais il lui recommande son fils : “I am well disposed to admit as
fact, that your hereditary title of Nobility does not harmonize with your
known liberal political principles : I make no excuse for not applying it
to you”
Chaumiere dès Prairies was the extensive Kentucky estate of
the Virginian Colonel David Meade (1740-1826), famous for
being – somewhat improbably given its location – landscaped
in imitation of Capability Brown. On these grounds walked
some of the most noted people of early America. Aaron Burr
visited this house often and was held under house arrest here,
Gen. Andrew Jackson, Pres. James Monroe, James Madison
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