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ACQUISITIONS
during the Haitian Revolution to assume possession of an estate. As danger mounted he fled to the United States, settling in Virginia with his wife and children, who also became well-known miniature painters. Peticolas’s best-known miniature is a portrait of George Washington. Although rare, his artwork is in the Smithsonian Institution and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 1803 Louise fled Saint Domingue with her younger sister, grandmother, and a few enslaved workers, one of whom was killed during the crisis; Louise’s grandmother, who was shielding the younger sister with her body, also lost her life. The remaining party immigrated to New Orleans, where Louise sold her jewelry to secure housing.
In 1805 she married Edward Livingston, a legal reformer who became secretary of state under President Andrew Jackson. —MACLYN LE BOURGEOIS HICKEY
Collection containing Louisiana Purchase and US founding documents
2076.0049.1
This double volume represents one of the most important and rare collections of legal acts related to the acquisition and administration of Louisiana. It was printed in New Orleans in 1810 by Thierry and
Dacqueny, who were also publishers of the Courrier de la Louisiane, a bilingual English-French newspaper—the first one of the time in New Orleans. The volume includes the Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, amendments to the Constitution, Louisiana Purchase, and several congressional acts related to the administration of Louisiana, which the US divided into two territories. This is the first known Louisiana printing of the Louisiana Purchase and the congressional act enabling it.
This publication provides an interesting glimpse into American democracy in 1810. For example, its version of the amendments to the Constitution includes—in addition to the 10 known as the Bill of Rights—two articles that were proposed as amendments but, ultimately, never ratified. The first article, proposing a system for congressional representation, never received the required number of votes to succeed. The second article, dealing with congressional pay, would not be ratified until 1992, making it the newest Constitutional amendment. There are only nine known copies of the English volume and four of the French.
This acquisition represents a unique printing of the two volumes, because they are bound together; most other copies were made available separately. —MATT FARAH
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