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Worthy Partner: The Papers of Martha Washington

By: Joseph E. Fields; Martha Washington | Book details

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Theodore Foster 3

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1.
Theodore Foster ( 1752-1828), held a number of political offices in Rhode Island. He was United States senator from Rhode Island from 1790 until 1803.
2.
The German Reformed Church in Philadelphia, dating from 1747, was located on Race Street, near Fourth.
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A Prayer, delivered on Saturday the 22nd of February 1800, in the German Reformed Church, in Philadelphia, before the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. By William Rogers, D.D. one of the Members of said Society, and Professor of English and Belles Lettres, in the University of Pennsylvania. Published by particular request. Philadelphia: printed by John Ormrod. 1800, 8:12.

From Charles Humphrey Atherton

( March 23, 1800)

The text of this letter is not available. It is likely a letter of condolence in which Atherton's eulogy was enclosed. 1

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Charles Humphrey Atherton ( 1773-1853) was native and resident of Amherst, N.H. After graduating from Harvard he studied law and practiced in Amherst. He served in the New Hampshire state legislature and in the national Congress during the session of 1815-17.

Eulogy on Gen. George Washington; delivered at Amherst, N.H. before the Inhabitants of the Town of Amherst, the inhabitants of the Town of Milford, and the Benevolent Lodge, on the 22d day of February, 1800, at the Request of the Committee of the Selectmen and other respectable Citizens of the Town of Amherst, to which was superadded the request of the Committee of the Benevolent Lodge. By Charles Humphrey Atherton. From the Press of Samuel Preston, Amherst. 1800, 8:23.


From George Washington Lafayette1

( March 24, 1800)

The text of this letter is not available.

1.
George Washington Lafayette ( 1779-1849) was the only son of General Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Arrested by the Austrians, then at war with France, he was imprisoned in Prussia and in dungeon at Olmutz, from 1792-97a. In 1795 young Lafayette and his tutor, Felix Frestal, escaped to America. His arrival proved a great embarrassment to GW. His great desire was to take the only son of his old friend into his household. But, he was on the "horns of a dilemma." As president of the United States he did not wish to offend the French government, who had proscribed General Lafayette. Neither did he wish to inflame the pro-French faction who favored France and were anti-British since the passage of the Jay treaty. "Voila!" He would arrange to have the young men reside in New York, at the home of Colonel Louis Sainte Ange Morel, under the family name of Motier. Morel had been an aide-de-camp to General Lafayette during the American and French Revolution. In April, 1796, GW threw precaution to the winds and, despite advice to the contrary, took the two young men into his Philadelphia household. They remained a part of the family in Philadelphia as well as at Mount Vernon, following the presidency. Hearing that his father might be released from Olmutz, young Lafayette and Frestal departed from New York on October 26, 1797 and arrived at Lehmkuhlen in February, 1798. He rejoined his family at Witmold-Holstein. Young Lafayette served in the French army from 1800-08 and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1822. In 1824 he accompanied his father on his triumphal tour of the United States. On his return to France he again was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1827-48. See, 6 Diaries, 236-67, 161; Gottscalk, The Letters of Lafayette To Washington, 1777-99, N.Y. 1944, pp. xxi-xxiv, 369-72.

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