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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 24] Document autographe
Paterson [New Jersey], 14 juillet 1825
5 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À PATERSON. EXEMPLAIRE DE
LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN PATERSON. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Toast at Paterson.
The recollections of Totowa and the enjoyment of Paterson. May this
happy, populous, manufacturing town more and more bear interest to
the superiority of republican institutions, to the blessings of freedom,
equal rights and self government”
“According to an account published by the Newark Sentinel on
July 19, 1825, it was early on the morning of Thursday, July 14
th
,
1825, that General Lafayette was escorted by military parade
from his lodgings on Broadway, New York City, to the Hoboken
ferry, where he crossed the Hudson River into New Jersey.
He proceeded to Hackensack, “where he was received with
a thousand welcomes by the patriotic citizens of that village.”
After breakfast, he journeyed to Paterson, passing Zabriskie’s
Mills (Arcola), Wagaraw and the Goffle. Reaching Paterson
by noon, he was “received with all the congratulations that
could arise from the hearts of freemen.” After dining at James
McNally’s Hotel on Main Street, he departed for Morristown,
passing through Totowa Bridge and Godwin’s Tavern (known
as the Passaic Hotel in 1825), Little Falls, Parsippany and
Whippany. He reached Morristown at about 6 o’clock in the
evening” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 220).
“The war also brought the Continental army itself to camp
on the Totowa Hills above the wondrous Falls and allowed
General Washington to inspect the area. It was during a lull
in the fighting that Washington and his staff, Generals Wayne,
Knox and the Marquis de Lafayette, decided to enjoy a picnic
lunch at the foot of the majestic
Totowa Falls
” (Marcia Dente,
Paterson great falls
, Charleston, 2012, p. 22)
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€
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[
LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]
Lettre autographe signée par Samuel A. Ruddock
New York, 12 juillet 1825
2 pp. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. MAGNIFIQUE LETTRE D’UN
VÉTÉRAN DE BUNKER HILL : “ACCEPT SIR, THE HUMBLE
BREATHING OF ONE WHO SAW BUNKERS HILL BATTLE”
“You having chosen to live like Cincinnatus, and Washington, rather
than like Alexander, Caesar, and Buonapart, has endeared you to
freemen, who appreciate your services in the cause of liberty, the
last of which was your laying the Corner Stone of her monument on
Breeds Hill in honor of those Worthies who bled for a nations freedom.
Accept Sir, the humble breathing of one who saw Bunkers hill Battle” ;
il lui rappelle “the old cradle of Liberty, Fanuel Hall, where Warren,
Hancock, Adams, any my father, spake those soul stirring words, that
roused a nations power”, avec une note autographe de Levasseur
“pearl street corner of broad street”
John Ruddock was the Boston Justice who in 1770 ordered
that the Tory sympathiser and customs agent Ebenezer
Richardson should be arrested and sent to Faneuil Hall for the
killing of twelve-year-old Christopher Snider, “first martyr of the
American Revolution”. For another letter by his son, see the
following item.
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€
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