Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 1777
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 17v
Notes:
On 29 July 1776 the Continental Congress recommended the donor, French volunteer Chevalier Marie Fidel Dorré, to George Washington "to be employed . . . as he shall think proper." Charles Willson Peale painted his portrait, a miniature (unlocated). Sellers, P&M, p. 70 (no. 225)
