From — Saint Sauveur fils
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Trieste, September 12, 1778, in French: No Frenchman venerates
your qualities more than I. Born under the same sky as
your Excellency, of a mother descended from a Franquelin, I
submit the following along with my respectful sentiments.
My great-grandfather, a Franquelin, served the King in
Canada. He married there, had children, and returned to
France. He sent for his family, who embarked on a ship which
was wrecked on an island in the St. Lawrence. M. Franquelin
believed that none of his children had survived; but my grandmother,
who had been ill, had remained in Canada under a
nursemaid’s care. Thinking herself an orphan, she married and
never followed the traces of her father. From my own father’s
research, we learn that after he left his country, my great-grandfather
was never seen again there.
Please excuse this minute detail. I offer it in hopes that the
similarity in names might merit some title to your benevolence.>
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