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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 32] Document autographe signé
Warrington [Warrenton], début sept. 1825
12 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À WARRENTON. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN WARRENTON. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“At Warrington Fauquier court house.
General Lafayette rose and said that having had this day a most gratifying occasion to (?) the
people of Fauquier with the tribute of his warm gratitude and affectionate devotion, he would not
now further trespass on their time than to express the high value he did set by the approbation
of his friends and companion in arms, colonel Monroe, and the obligations his family had been
(?) to him in very gloomy circumstances, he proposed the following toast :
The old Virginia line, the militia of 1781, and the present generations of Fauquier. May the
Revolutionay services of the fathers find an everlasting reward in the Republican prosperity and
happiness of their children”
General Lafayette was given a banquet in 1825 with 6,000 of Fauquier’s population
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