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 . pirit in thefamily, and had for a friend the Landgrave ofHesse, who was at this time sending mercenaries toassist the British army in its fight with the Americancolonies. The commi
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 . pirit in thefamily, and had for a friend the Landgrave ofHesse, who was at this time sending mercenaries toassist the British army in its fight with the Americancolonies. The commission of lieutenant-colonel in jone of the Hessian regiments was offered to youngGallatin, a proposition to which he is said to havereplied that he would never serve a tyrant. Infact Gallatin with two friends had already amusedthemselves by planning an emigration to America,hein^ interested more particulany in their romanticideas of the native American Indian, and in April,1780, young Gallatin with one of these friends leftGeneva for Nantes, where the friendly offices of hisfamily followed him with money and letters ofrecommendation to distinguished Americans, in-cluding one from Benjamin Franklin, at that timeAmerican minister at the Court of Versailles, to hisson-in-law, Richard Bache. The travelers sailed onMay 27th, in an American vessel, investing a portionof their small capital in tea. They reached the. 10 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA American coast and landed at Cape Ann, on July14th, and the following day rode to Boston on horse-back. This was a time of stagnation in the Americanrevolution; there was very little trade, and it waswith difficulty that the venture in tea ^^ as broughtto a financial conclusion, which ^^?as accomplishedonly by bartering it for other articles, includingrum, sugar and tobacco, with which they traveledbetween Boston and Maine, selling their goods ortrading them as the case might be. At Machias,Gallatin is said to have advanced supplies to thevalue
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