Grégoire, Marie-Thérèse de (d. 1811) to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03515 Author/Creator: Grégoire, Marie-Thérèse de (d. 1811) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Manuscript letter signed Date: 8 April 1787 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 22.6 x 18.7 cm. Order a Copy
Forwards a letter of recommendation from the Marquis de Lafayette, and asks Knox for help in her claim of "a tract of Land Laying at the Eastward with the Island of Mount Desert," in what is now Maine.
Marie-Thérèse de Grégoire, née de La Mothe Cadillac, was the granddaughter of Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac. de La Mothe was a governor of Louisiana, one of the founders of Detroit, Michigan, and the namesake of Cadillac cars. Madame de Grégoire claimed the inheritance of the island of Mount Desert through him, as the island was a gift from Louis XIV in 1688.
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