[420] Angélique Françoise Dame de La Fonchais (1769-1793), sister to André Desilles, the hero of Nancy, was guillotined 13 June 1793, the same time as her brother-in-law, Michel Julien Picot de Limoëlan, displaying admirable courage on the scaffold.—B.
[421] Major Chafner, vide supra, p. 66.—B.
[422] Captain Dujardin Pinte-de-Vin of the brig Saint-Pierre, bound for the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miguelon, whence she was to make for Baltimore.—B.
[423] François Charles Nagot (d. 1816), not Nagault, was the superior, not of the seminary of Saint-Sulpice, but of the community of Robertines in Paris, one of the annexes of the seminary of Saint-Sulpice. He left for Baltimore in order to become the superior of a Sulpician seminary in that city, accompanied by three young priests of the Company. The Abbé Nagot arrived at Baltimore in July 1791, and in the September following established St Mary's Seminary, the first and best-known seminary in the United States. In 1822 Pope Pius VII. erected St Mary's College into a Catholic university.—B.
[424] Esprit fort, a free-thinker or latitudinarian.—T.
[425] 2 April 1791.—T.
[426] 8 April 1791.—B.