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Document signé par William Richmond, Chairman, et Walter
R. Danforth
Providence, Rhode island, 20 août 1824
1 p. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : INVITATION DU CONSEIL
MUNICIPAL ET DES CINCINATI DE PROVIDENCE, RHODE
ISLAND.
“SERVICE HE RENDERED THIS COUNTRY IN THE GLOOMY
SEASON OF HER REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE”
Promulgation officielle et transmise à Lafayette, certifiée par
le Chairman et le Secrétaire, de la résolution prise par “the
Town Council of the Town of Providence and others, members
of the Rhode Island-State Cincinnati, associated with them”,
chargeant le colonel Ephraim Bowen et Zachariah Allen (un
industriel) d’accueillir Lafayette : “tender the affectionate
regards of the citizens of this Town, who cherish a grateful
recollection of the disinterested service he rendered this
Country in the gloomy season of her Revolutionary struggle,
and invite him to honour the Town of Providence with a visit”
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Lettre signée par Edmund Fanning, George Hubbard, Silas
E. Burrows, William R. Palmer, William H. Fanning et Thomas
Noyes
Stoningon Borough, Connecticut, 21 août 1824
1 p. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : INVITATION DE STONINGTON
SIGNÉE PAR L’UN DES GRANDS EXPLORATEURS
AMÉRICAINS : EDMUND FANNING
On salue l’arrivée du “companion & compatriot of our immortal
Washington”
The principal signatory of this letter is the well-known explorer
Edmund Fanning of Stonington (1769-1841), known as the
“Pathfinder of the Pacific”, responsible during his voyage in
the
Betsy
for discovering three South Pacific islands, Fanning
(or Tabuaeran), Washington (or Teraina) and Palmyra. He
published his memoirs (
Voyage around the world
, New York,
1833).
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Lettre autographe signée par David Francis, secrétaire
Boston, 21 août 1824
1 p. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : INVITATION DE LA
MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON
Promulgation officielle de l’invitation à dîner et de la création
d’un comité d’accueil comprenant : John Cotton, Samuel
Perkins, Jonathan Hun[n]ewell, Benjamin Russell et John P.
Thorndik, écrit comme “a true copy of the record, attested [by]
David Francis, Secretary”
Lafayette was to be guest of the MCMA the following July, after
laying the foundation stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. For
the Resolution enrolling Lafayette in the MCMA, see under 28
September, below :
“Yielding to the wishes of the inhabitants of Boston, General Lafayette
remained several days in their city after the ceremonies at Bunker’s
hill... On the 20
th
he accepted a dinner given him by the Mechanics’
Society, where he met all the public functionaries, and the most
distinguished personages of the state, who had accepted the invitation
with equal warmth, so great is the deference paid by every one in the
United States to the useful classes of society’ (Levasseur,
Lafayette in
America
, ii, 207).
The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
(est.1795) of Boston, Massachusetts, was “formed for the sole
purposes of promoting the mechanic arts and extending the
practice of benevolence.” Founders included Paul Revere,
Jonathan Hunnewell, and Benjamin Russell. Through much of
the 19
th
century, the association organized conferences and
exhibitions devoted to innovation in the mechanical arts. It is
still existant today (cf. http :/
/www.masshist.org/)200 / 300
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Document signé par John Fitz, Town Clerk, et lettre autographe
signée du même (2)
Boston, 24 août 1824
2 pp. in-4, comprenant la Résolution et sa lettre d’accompagnement
avec l’adresse suivante : “For General Lafayette (now at) Boston”
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : INVITATION DE
NEWBURYPORT FAIT AU “BRAVE SOLDIER, WHO DEVOTED
HIS PERSON & HIS FORTUNE TO OUR COUNTRY’S CAUSE”