From the Abbé Vicomte de Tarride
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Pau in Béarn, September 3, 1777, in French: The vicomte de
Tarride, a young man of twenty-two, was reformé after three
years’ service and decided to join the Americans. About a month
ago he sailed from Bayonne on a Boston ship. I hope I may
ask for him your protection and letters to your countrymen. If
you think proper, I will send the duc du Châtelet’s certificate
of his services to be forwarded to him. You could learn of his
lineage in Paris, where it is well known; he has shown his
ancestors’ qualities of intelligence, zeal, and precision.>
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