December 6, 1797

Lamarquisie, Bernard M., fl. 1797

Letter signed

Title: to the Society of Cincinnati

Letters to the Society of Cincinnati asking for aid. Lamarquisie (also "de la Marquisie"), a Frenchman who had served as a captain of engineers in the Continental Army, asks the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati for financial aid. The former officer, "persecuted in France during the Revolution," writes that he needs money to travel from Boston to Philadelphia, in order to pursue his memorial before Congress. The first letter, a summary of his military service during the Revolutionary War, includes mention of his journey to Canada with American commissioners Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase…

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