From — de Buffot de Millery
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Autun in Burgundy, June 1, 1778, in French: The vicomte de
Mauroy, réformé two and a half years ago as lieutenant colonel
of grenadiers, contracted with Mr. Deane and left for America
in April, 1777, as a major general. Before his departure he gave
me, his intimate friend, his power of attorney. In June he wrote
me from Charleston, where he had just landed, and in August
from Derby, near Philadelphia; his last letter, from Boston in
October, said that he had not found service and was coming
home in March. Since then I have heard nothing, and a rumor
is circulating here that he has lost a leg. I have inquired of his
family and of the comte de Broglie, who knows him well; no
one has had word of him. He was going to spend the winter in
Boston and had no premonition of the treaty of alliance; that
development perhaps led him to join the American army.>
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