Sir, You have probably been informed, by the public papers, that we were recommended by the French government, to claim an estate of one of our ancestors (M. De Cardillac [sic], governor of Louisiana,) but you are doubtless a stranger to the troubles and miseries to which we have been reduced - De Gregoire, Maria Theresa (s.n, 1790)
Bristol, B7381. - Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2570. - Maria Theresa de Gregoire, granddaughter of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, came to America in 1787. The Massachusetts Assembly confirmed her title to part of Mount Desert Island and the neighboring mainland (now Maine), after which she and her family remained there for several years. Cf. DAB. - Shipton & Mooney, 45879. - Signed: Your most humble servants, [blank] Boston September 26th, 1790. The New York Public Library copy is signed in ms.: Mde et Mr De Gregoire, and is addressed to Samuel Adams