. The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800. dOhet, with her threesons, Louis Paul, aet. 22, Alexander Hubert, , and Auguste Francois Cecil, aet. 9, left Francein 1792, their royalist principles making life un-certain there. In company with the family of hersister Madame Lefevre, and some others, theycame to America, and settled on the Chenangoon lands previously contracted for in France fromWilliam W. Morris, through his agent, CharlesF. Bue Boulogne. They arrived evidently in thelate summer of 1792, as an act of sale was madeout by Boulogne in Philadelphia, Sept.
. The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800. dOhet, with her threesons, Louis Paul, aet. 22, Alexander Hubert, , and Auguste Francois Cecil, aet. 9, left Francein 1792, their royalist principles making life un-certain there. In company with the family of hersister Madame Lefevre, and some others, theycame to America, and settled on the Chenangoon lands previously contracted for in France fromWilliam W. Morris, through his agent, CharlesF. Bue Boulogne. They arrived evidently in thelate summer of 1792, as an act of sale was madeout by Boulogne in Philadelphia, Sept. 1792. InOctober, 1793, the oldest son on his way to Phila-delphia stopped at Asylum, doubtless to see Bou-logne. It was he who carried back to the Che-nango settlement an account of the proposedtown that later attracted thither a number of hisassociates with his mothers family. The power of attorney under which Boulogneacted in making their contracts was lost in Paris,and, having never been recorded, after the deathof Morris and Boulogne, the lands were lost, or. SOoUAA/ti^ivon/L sold for a trivial sum on account of supposed poortitle, though it was finally held good. (See Wen-dall Common Law reports N. Y. p. 82, vol. 7.) A recital of the case, drawn up in French * in1805 by Louis Paul dAutremont, then in Paris,is still in existence.* Their situation from the first was not a pleasantone, and it was not long before Mrae. dAutre- [Original in French ] ?Recital of the case which is to be begun against William VV. Morris to re-claim 6,000 acres of land or thereabouts situated on the Chenango River,Montgomery Co., New York. M. Charles Felix De Boulogne sold at Paris in 1792 lands under two differ-ent titles. 1st under power of attorney of M. M. Malachi Treat and William M. Mor-ris, proprietors of a certain quantity of lands upon the Chenango River, to Madame dAutremont & to W. Brevost, 2nd as proprietors of a part of these same lands which he hadpurchased from said Treat and Morris
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