On or near this day, Meriwether Lewis comes home to reunite with his mother Lucy Marks, brother Reuben, and sister Jane. News of his arrival reaches Charlottesville—about ten miles east of his family’s Locust Hill Plantation—on 13 December.
Lucy Marks was the mother of Meriwether Lewis. According to the artist’s biography at the National Gallery of Art, John Toole was a distant relative of Thomas Jefferson.
Lewis Comes Home
[The Richmond Enquirer]
COMMUNICATION
On the 13th of this month, the citizens of Charlottesville received intelligence, that capt. Meriwether Lewis had arrived at his mother’s on his way to Washington: they had long determined, that his arrival among them should be greeted with those marks of respect, which he merits from every one; and which they, who had known him from childhood, were particularly anxious to pay.[1]Richmond Enquirer, 23 December 1806, page 3. Also in Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783–1854, ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), … Continue reading
Notes
| ↑1 | Richmond Enquirer, 23 December 1806, page 3. Also in Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783–1854, ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 692. |
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