The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e might be. At Machias,Gallatin is said to have advanced supplies to thevalue of $400 to the garrison, taking in pay-ment a draft on the State treasury of Massa-chusetts, which he
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e might be. At Machias,Gallatin is said to have advanced supplies to thevalue of $400 to the garrison, taking in pay-ment a draft on the State treasury of Massa-chusetts, which he afterward sold at one-fourthof its face value. Finally, in the autumn of1781, he settled in Boston, where he gave instructionsin the French language, and in the following sum-mer taught French to the students of Plarvard,for which he received about three lumdred dol-lars. He remained at Cambridge for nearly ayear, and in July, 1783, went to Boston and NewYork and concluded his financial relations with histraveling companion, determined thereafter to suc-ceed or fail entirely through his own efforts. Hear-ing of rich lands to be bought low on the banks ofthe Ohio, Gallatin went there and purchased a largeterritory between the ]\Iouongahela and the Kanawharivers and soon after succeeded in selling a smallportion of this land for enough to repay three-fourthsof the original cost of the whole of it. Gallatin now. settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where hebuilt a log hut and opened a country store. In 1784Gallatin &rst met General Washington, who madehim a proposition to become his land agent. Thatwinter Jlr. Gallatin settled in Richmond and fromthat time forward for several years he was engagedin locating lands, while suggesting to his friends inSwitzerland a general emigration from that country,which was at this time much disturbed by revolu-tionary ideas. Gallatin now reached his twenty-fifth year, and his family in Switzerland remittedhim considerable sums through the ba
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