Bailly, Marie
Person
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Marie Bailly Letters
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2024-007
Scope and Contents
The Marie Bailly Letters (circa 1800) contains approximately 140 pages of handwritten text mostly from or relating to Marie Bailly (nee Chauvet) regarding her personal and financial challenges during a post-revolutionary period of war. These letters state that Marie's former military husband died of yellow fever in Saint Domingue, a former French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which is now modern-day Haiti; and discuss her attempt to seek allowances or...
Dates:
circa 1800