F.P. Mt. Pleasant letter : Buffalo, N.Y., to George H. Fraser, Wauwatosa, Wis., 1931 July 8.

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F.P. Mt. Pleasant letter : Buffalo, N.Y., to George H. Fraser, Wauwatosa, Wis., 1931 July 8.

Recounts the meeting of his great grandfather, Nicholas Cusick, with Gen. Lafayette during the Revolutionary War, and some details on the Cusick and Mt. Pleasant families.

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

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Mt. Pleasant, Frank P.

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Descendant of Nicholas Cusick, Tuscarora Indian chief. From the description of F.P. Mt. Pleasant letter : Buffalo, N.Y., to George H. Fraser, Wauwatosa, Wis., 1931 July 8. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 71303933 ...

Fraser, George H.

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Cusick, Nicholas, 1756-1840.

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A Tuscarora. Commissioned as lieutenant in Revolutionary army; bodyguard to Marquis de Lafayette; signer of the Treaty of Big Tree, 1794. His brother James was ordained a Baptist minister in 1838. He preached and established churches among the Six Nations. From the description of Letters : Tuscarora village, to Jasper Parish and James Young, 1805, 1828. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56923910 ...

Cusick family.

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