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Single sheet (c.340 x 210mm), recto part-printed in English and completed in manuscript, 'United States of America' at head with woodcut eagle, manuscript text in French to verso, two seals; two small holes and two chips to upper margin, light creasing where folded; very good.An interesting notarial document recording the immigration of two members of the French minor nobility to America during the French Revolution and Directory. The New York public notary Charles Bridgen here attests to the arrival of François Pierre Henri d'Héliand (b.1768) and his wife Laurence Joséphine Caroline Anne Marie Louis Colheux de Longpré (b.1778) in New York from Philadelphia, where they had stayed since 16May 1796, and to their intention 'to continue their residence within these United States of America'. The document is signed and sealed by Bridgen, and also signed by three acquaintances of the young couple, William M. Seton, Anthony Stafford, and Thomas Jones. William Magee Seton (1768 1803), a wealthy New York merchant of Scottish descent, was the husband of StElizabeth Ann Seton (1774 1821), the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonised by the Roman Catholic Church (her nephew would later establish Seton Hall University in her name). William is credited with bringing the first Stradivarius violin to America. On the verso is a manuscript note signed and sealed by Jean Antoine Bernard Rozier, the young French Republic's vice-consul in New York, attesting to the authenticity of Bridgen's signature, dated 'New York ce 9me fridor 5me année de l'ére Républicaine Française'. Rozier served as vice-consul between June 1795 and July 1798. Language: English.
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