[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée par le général Francis Peston Abingdon, Virginia, 17 juillet 1825 3 pp. in-4, adresse sur la dernieG“)ère page nl Lafayette Washington politness of Colo. Barbour"), légère...
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EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. DEMANDE DE FAVEUR PAR UN GÉNÉRAL AMÉRICAIN : “I BEG THAT YOU WOULD NAME ME TO Mr. MONROE, Mr. MADISON OR Mr. JEFFERSON" Le général Preston demande à Lafayette s’il pourrait, pour raisons de santé, rentrer en France avec lui, comme le Président le lui a accordé : “My object is to sail with you to France on the frigate Brandywine" ; avec post-scriptum : “PS. Altho’ you may recollect me from what I have said above, yet your not knowing my standing in Society, I beg that you would name me to Mr M[onr]oe, Mr Madison or Mr Jefferson, with all of wh[om] I am well acquainted" Francis Preston (1765-1836) was a lawyer who represented Virginia in Congress from 1793 to 1797 and had served as a Colonel of Volunteers in the War of 1812. He was promoted Brigadier-General of the Virginia Militia in 1820. Like his father, who had been a friend and fellow-surveyor of Washington’s, and Lafayette himself, he was a prominent Freemason. The Colonel Barbour who delivered the letter is probably the Virginia Senator John S. Barbour (1790-1855), who had served as Madison’s ADC in the War of 1812, and was cousin of the Secretary of War, Senator James Barbour.
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. DEMANDE DE FAVEUR PAR UN GÉNÉRAL AMÉRICAIN : “I BEG THAT YOU WOULD NAME ME TO Mr. MONROE, Mr. MADISON OR Mr. JEFFERSON" Le général Preston demande à Lafayette s’il pourrait, pour raisons de santé, rentrer en France avec lui, comme le Président le lui a accordé : “My object is to sail with you to France on the frigate Brandywine" ; avec post-scriptum : “PS. Altho’ you may recollect me from what I have said above, yet your not knowing my standing in Society, I beg that you would name me to Mr M[onr]oe, Mr Madison or Mr Jefferson, with all of wh[om] I am well acquainted" Francis Preston (1765-1836) was a lawyer who represented Virginia in Congress from 1793 to 1797 and had served as a Colonel of Volunteers in the War of 1812. He was promoted Brigadier-General of the Virginia Militia in 1820. Like his father, who had been a friend and fellow-surveyor of Washington’s, and Lafayette himself, he was a prominent Freemason. The Colonel Barbour who delivered the letter is probably the Virginia Senator John S. Barbour (1790-1855), who had served as Madison’s ADC in the War of 1812, and was cousin of the Secretary of War, Senator James Barbour.
