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states that he has forwarded copies of the former's historical pamphlet to the Prefect at Rolle, the Chief of Department of Public Instruction at Lausanna, to the Federal Chancery at Berne and to the Swiss Legation at Washington.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 12, 1883.

My Dear Sir: The President desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your kind note of the 7th inst., inviting him to be present at the celebration of Bushy Run, on the 6th of August next, and to express his regret that engagements covering that date will prevent its acceptance. Thanking you in his behalf for the courtesy of the invitation, I am, very truly yours, O. L. PRUDEN, Sec'y. R. COULTER, Esq., Ch'm, etc., Greensburg, Penn'a.

WASHINGTON, July 17, 1883. Sir: I much regret that it will not be in my power to accept your courteous invitation to be present at the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the battle of Bushy Run on the 6th of Aug. next. Very faithfully yours, J. S. SACKVILle West.

R. COULTER, Esq., Greensburg.

EXECUTIVE Department, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNA.,

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR,
HARRISBURG, July 11th, 1883.

GENERAL R. COULTER, Greensburg, Pa.

Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your very kind invitation to attend the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the battle of Bushy Run, August 6th, and regret my inability to be present. Accept my thanks and believe me your obedient servant, R. E. PATTISON. EXECUTIVE Department, OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, COLUMBUS, July 11, 1883.

STATE OF OHIO,

R. COULTER, Esq., Greensburg, Pa.

My Dear Sir: By direction of the Governor, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to him to be present and participate in the celebration of the battle of Bushy Run, to be held on the battle-field on Monday, August 6th. The Governor is greatly obliged for your kind remembrance of him and regrets that engagements already made cover the dates named and will prevent his acceptance. Very truly yours, F. D. MUSSEY, Private Secretary.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

R. COULTER, Esq., Chairman :

WASHINGTON, July 18, 1883.}

Dear Sir: In reply to your invitation to General Drum to be present at the celebration of the battle of Bushy Run on August 6th, I beg to inform you that the General is at present absent on a "tour of inspec

tion," and will not return to this city before the date named, otherwise I have no doubt he would take pleasure in joining the celebration.

Very Respectfully,

HENRY TURnbull.

Letters of regret were also read from ex-Governor Hartranft; Mayor King, of Philadelphia; Hon. W. U. Hensel, of Lancaster, and Prof. Samuel Wilson, of Allegheny City.

APPENDIX.

IMPORTANT ADDENDA, LETTERS, ETC.

In response to enquiries sent by Counsul Koradi, through the Prefect of Rolle, to the custodians of the archives of the Canton Vand, at Lausanne, in Switzerland, Rev. C. Cort received some valuable data from Mr. J. Berney, the Chief of Public Instruction for the Canton Vand.

This came too late for the Bouquet pamphlet, for which it was desired, but we will insert the main points here.

In the Parochial Register of the Reformed Church of Rolle, the entry is made March 25, 1735, that Henry Bouquet had been examined, along with others, with a view to participate in the Holy Communion. His age is stated to be 16 years. This agrees with other data which state that Henry Bouquet was born in the year 1719.

It is further stated in this document of Mr. Berney, that Henry Louis Bouquet was the oldest of seven brothers; that he entered the service of Holland, in 1736, and afterwards passed into the service of Piedmont, where his brilliant career and intelligence attracted the Prince of Orange, who invited him to command a company of his guard. During the leisure hours of garrison duty, he cultivated the sciences and became intimately acquainted with distinguished professors in Holland, at the University of Leeyden, &c. From this, it appears that our hero had a middle name, which he seldom or never used. Louis Bouquet, evidently the uncle referred to in the will of Henry Bouquet (see page 76, of Bouquet pamphlet), became General Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Regiment Stuerler, in the service of the Netherlands, and renounced his citizenship of Rolle, April 14, 1750, and was discharged from his duties as a citizen, October 8, 1750, evidently with a view of be

coming a citizen of Holland, where he had risen to distinction. Several members of the Bouquet family served with distinction in foreign countries, we are told; particularly in Holland, where, among others, one of his uncles was an engineer officer. This may have been Colonel Louis, already described.

The Bouquet family were citizens of Rolle, and one of its members belonged to the council of that town or city. In the letter, forwarding the document, Consul Koradi writes:

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Just as I thought, when reading your very interesting pamphlet, in which you give such a clear and minute report of my countryman, that I wondered where you got all these details from; the report I got does not bring anything new. The only point of importance is the proof by it, that Henry Bouquet really was a native of Rolle, a Swiss from the Canton of Vand, and that Bouquet was his correct oirginal name; that, therefore, the suggestions of the Pioneer of Cincinnati, that he was a German, and his name Frenchified, from Strauss, into Bouquet, was wrong."

This was the conclusion arrived at, on other grounds, by Rev. Cort (see pamphlet, page 5).

The archives of Vand also state that:

"In 1754, the British government confided to him and fellow-countryman, Haldimand, of Yoerden (also in the Canton of Vand), the organization of a brigade, named the Royal American, into which he drew several other fellow-citizens of the Canton of Vand, among whom was DuFes, of Monden, and Vullgamott, of Lausanne."

Subsequent to the publication of the Bouquet pamphlet and the Bushy Run Celebration of August 6, 1883, Wm. M. Darlington, Esq.,. of Pittsburg, Pa., informed Řev. C. Cort that he had spent a good deal of time in an effort to ascertain the exact location of Bouquet's grave, at Pensacola, many years ago. He had an old drawing of the fort and barracks at Pensacola, made in 1772, which would seem to locate the grave and monument of Bouquet, if the exact position of the old barracks can be determined.

Mr. Darlington says that one of the principal clerks of the British Museum told him that the Canadian government paid a thousand pounds sterling, or five thousand dollars, for a manuscript copy of the Bouquet-Haldimand papers, which were presented to the British Museum by a grandson of Haldimand.

LETTER OF G. D. SCULL.

On page 83, of the Bouquet pamphlet, reference is made to G. D. Scull, an American resident of Oxford, England, who had collated some of the more important Bouquet papers for publication, a limited number of which, at ten dollars a copy, was to be printed at an early date.

The following letter from Mr. Scull to Rev. Cort, will be of interest in several respects. He had previously written that Bouquet was deserving of perennial remembrance, and he was delighted to learn of the proposed celebration at Bushy Run.

RUGBY LODGE, NORHAM ROAD,
OXFORD, Aug. 17, 1883.

DEAR SIR:—I am extremely obliged to you for the copy of "Bouquet and his Campaigns," received some days ago. I assure you, I have read it with great interest and pleasure. Of a certainty you are General Bouquet's qualified and well-appointed biographer. What a pity that your well directed search for his grave, at Pensacola, ended in total failure.

Lieut. Francis Hutcheson, in 1763, was with Bouquet in his expedition against the Ohio Indians, and acted, at times, as his secretary. Bouquet invited Hutcheson to go with him to Pensacola, where they arrived, and Bouquet was buried eight days after. He was appointed a Major of Brigades afterwards. Hutcheson acted as administrator to Bouquet's estate, at Pensacola, had a vendue, and brought up North the net balance in bills on London and New York-$3,566.031⁄2-which was handed over to Colonel Haldimand. Among the items of expense are amounts paid six soldiers for carrying the corpse to the grave, $3. Left with Captain Valoe to finish railing around the General's grave, $30, and $11.05 for scantling round ditto.

Among the things put in an inventory, and which were probably handed over to Colonel Haldimand, are: A gold watch, with a seal, coat of arms and compass, a sum of coin, Johannes and 1⁄2 do., doubloons, guineas and 1⁄2 do., 2 negro men and I girl, 24 pieces of silver plate, I pipe of Madeira, 3 quarter-casks do., 2 casks Rhenish, 2 demijohns claret, cask of bottled beer, scarlet coat, with broad gold lace, scarlet, gold-laced frock and breeches, 18 pairs of silk stockings, 9 pairs thread do., 33 shirts, 10 white waist coats, 15 ruffled caps, II cotton do., 17 stocks, 4 pairs white spadderdashes, I plaid night gown, I silk night gown, I Huzzar cloak, 1 silver-mounted sword, I cutlass, I case pistols and furniture, 2 boxes containing 5 wigs, etc.

Major Hutcheson afterwards became Colonel Haldimand's private and military secretary. I am quite in the dark if anything has yet been done to bring out my Bouquet correspondence in Philadelphia. I am grievously disappointed at the result.

Very truly yours,

G. D. SCULL.

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