The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel (49 page)

1
. [Haslewood],
Secret history of the green-room
, 2:193 (see chapter 6, n. 14).

2
. Stephen had business premises for a time on Upper Reed Street (the part of the street east of Broadway), even after moving from the lodging at 44 Reed he had occupied in 1795.

3
. NYHS-BV Jumel, entry for February 7, 1804.

4
. Ibid., entry for November 7, 1808.

5
. Ibid., entry for February 1, 1804.

6
. Ibid., entries for June 10 and June 13, 1804. William's tutor received payment directly from Stephen, whereas “Miss Brown” handed over the money for her own lessons. However, as the transactions appear in Stephen's receipt book, it was probably his money that paid both bills.

7
. NYPL, MssColl 318, Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker Diary 1799–1806, entry for April 9, 1804 (for the weather).

8
. Morris-Jumel Mansion Archives, 26.13 (English translation of the certificate).

9
.
Letters from John Pintard to his daughter Eliza Noel Pintard Davidson 1816–1833. Vol. II: 1821–1827
(New York: Printed by the New-York Historical Society, 1940), 31.

10
. New York County, Land and Property Records, Deeds, Liber 96:330–33; N.Y. Ct. Ch., Stephen Jumel vs. the Ursuline Convent of the City of New York and the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral, CL-161, 184–251.

11
. For the significance of gossip, see Edith B. Gelles, “Gossip: an eighteenth-century case,”
Journal of Social History
22, no. 4 (Summer 1989): 667–68, 676.

12
.
Letters from John Pintard to his daughter Eliza Noel Pintard Davidson 1816–1833. Vol. IV: 1832–1833
(New York: Printed by the New-York Historical Society, 1941), 170.

13
. Their marriage does not appear in the register of marriages performed at the Church of Saint Peter the Apostle (NYPL, Records of St. Peter's Church, New York City).

14
. Ellen K. Rothman,
Hands and hearts: A history of courtship in America
(New York: Basic Books, 1984), 78.

15
. Ibid., 78–81.

16
. A search of
Ancestry.com
for the last name “Lapeyre” or “Lepeyre” returns no hits with any even vaguely similar first names for the period 1790 through 1830.

17
. NYHS-BV
Jumel, entry for June 13, 1804.

18
. Herbert Ross Brown,
The sentimental novel in America 1789–1860
(1970; repr., Freeport, NY: Books of Libraries Press, 1970), 19n73; Eliza Haywood,
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
, ed. Christine Blouch (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press, 1988), 421–26.

19
. Herndon, “‘Proper' magistrates and masters,” 51 (see prologue, n. 7).

20
. Sharon V. Salinger,
‘To serve well and faithfully': Labor and indentured servants in Pennsylvania 1682–1800
(Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2000), 118–19; 127–28.

21
. Ibid., 116.

22
.
Diary of Elizabeth Drinker
, 3:1683 (September 12, 1803); 3:1941 (June 24, 1806) (see chap. 2, n. 29).

23
. John van der Zee,
Bound over: Indentured servitude and American conscience
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985), 99.

24
. Linda L. Mathew, “Gleanings from Rhode Island town records: Providence Town Council records, 1789–1801,”
Rhode Island Roots
, Special Bonus Issue 2007 (April 2007): 113– 14, 118.

25
. For Sampson, see Herman Mann,
The female review
(1916; repr., Bedford, MA: Apple-wood Books, [2009]) and Alfred A. Young,
Masquerade: The life and times of Deborah Sampson, Continental soldier
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 5, 11, 179, 249, 190, 197–200, 271.

1
. NYHS-BV Jumel, entry for June 14, 1804. The gig was “guaranteed for one year from the 6th instant,” which pinpoints June 6 as the date of purchase.

2
.
New-York Evening Post
, April 5, 1802, [3] (advertisement placed by Sebring & Van Wyck).

3
.
Moreau de St. Méry's American journey 1793-1798
, trans. Kenneth and Anna M. Roberts (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1947), 334.

4
. Suggested by a payment “for varnishing the carriage” and other sums expended for a coachman's boots and wages (NYHS-BV Jumel, entries for November 28, 1809; May 26, 1812; and March 7, 1815).

5
.
New-York Evening Post
, January 4, 1810, [3].

6
. James D. Davidson and Ralph E. Pyle,
Ranking faiths: Religious stratification in America
(Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), 10.

7
. Ibid., 13, table 1.2; 71, table 4.1; 8, table 1.1.

8
. Felton,
American life
, 39 (see chap. 5, n. 1).

9
. Baptismal records of Eliza Jumel and William Ballow [
sic
], October 25, 1807, in the Register of the Parish of Trinity Church [online], available at
http://registers.trinitywallstreet.org/files/history/registers/registry.php
; accessed March 28, 2013. Strictly speaking, the records do not indicate at which church in Trinity Parish the two baptisms took place. But the minister who officiated performed marriages only at the parish's main church, Trinity, and presumably performed baptisms at the same place.

10
. John
C. Goodbody,
One peppercorne: A popular history of Trinity Church
(New York: The Parish of Trinity Church, 1982), 41, 43.

11
. 1873 Transcript of record, 305.

12
. NYHS-BV Jumel, entries for June 15, 1805, and February 3, 1806; NYPL-Letter Book, June 21, 1808, to Samuel Ward.

13
. NYPL-Letter Book, March 28, 1810, to Batard, Sampson & Sharp.

14
. 1873 Transcript of record, 303, 305; B-779, box 112, deposition of Nelson Chase.

15
. “Law reports,”
New York Times
, October 22, 1870, 3; “The Jumel will,”
New-York Tribune
, October 22, 1870, 2.

16
. Leonard B. Chapman,
Monograph on the Southgate family of Scarborough: Their ancestors and descendants
(Portland, ME: Hubbard W. Bryant, 1907), 14–17.

17
. Ibid., 17 (for the date of the marriage).

18
. Marriage record of William Jones and Maria Bowne, December 19, 1805, and baptismal record of William [B.] Jones, September 20, 1810 (with notation of the date of birth), in the registers of the Parish of Trinity Church [online] (see n. 9, above).

19
. Baptismal record of Eliza Jumel Jones, September 20, 1810, in the registers of the Parish of Trinity Church [online] (see n. 9, above).

20
. NYHS-BV Jumel, entry for May 5, 1809.

21
. Baptismal records of William Jones, Eliza Jumel Jones, and Louisa Jones, September 20, 1810, in the registers of the Parish of Trinity Church [online] (see n. 9, above).

22
.
Elliot's Improved New-York Double Directory
(New-York: Printed and sold by William Elliot, 1812), 162. This was the only year in which William Jones was listed as running a boardinghouse.

23
. NYHS-BV Jumel, entry for August 18, 1810; also see the entry for “William B. Ballow” at 34 Cedar St. in the 1810 edition of
Longworth's American almanac, New-York register, and city directory
(New York: David Longworth, 1810), 98.

24
. William's wife, née Eliza Wiggins, worked for a woman named Margaret Brett who did some dressmaking for Eliza. William could have met Wiggins when she accompanied Brett to the house or when she stopped at Stephen's office to pick up ten dollars Brett was owed. See NYHS-BV Jumel, entry for March 31, 1808.

25
. Ibid., entry for April 7, 1813.

1
. Hopper Striker Mott,
The New York of yesterday: A descriptive narrative of old Bloomingdale
(New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908), 87.

2
. Ibid., 88–89.

3
. Ibid., 87–89.

4
. Ibid., 89.

5
. J. Fr. Michaud,
Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne
, vol. 9 (Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1966; reprint Paris: C. Desplaces and M. Michaud, 1854), 542–44.

6
. “Reminiscences of New-York,”
Talisman
, January 1, 1829: 310.

7
. Henriette
Luce Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet,
Journal d'une femme de cinquante ans, 1788–1815
, ed. Aymar de Liedekerke-Beaufort (Paris: Librairie Chapelot, 1913), 2:105.

8
. “Reminiscences of New-York,” 310.

9
. David Lawday,
Napoleon's master: A life of Prince Talleyrand
(London: Jonathan Cape, 2006), 73, 75–76, 87.

10
. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent,
Mémoires I: 1754–1807
, ed. Paul-Louis Couchoud and Jean-Paul Couchoud (Paris: Librairie Plon, 1957), 1:243–250; Gouvernet,
Journal d'une femme
, 2:104; Michel Poniatowski,
Tallyrand aux États-Unis 1794–1796
(Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1967), 328–29.

11
.
Diary of my travels in America: Louis-Philippe, King of France, 1830–1848
, trans. Stephen Becker (New York: Delacorte Press, 1977), 10, 153, 125, 165;
New York Gazette
, October 10, 1797, [3] (notice of their arrival in New York). For political reasons, the brothers made a convoluted return to Europe in 1799 by way of Havana, the Bahamas, Halifax, and New York, but there is no indication that they remained in the latter city longer than was necessary to board a packet boat to England (
Mémoires de Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orléans, ecrits par lui-même
[Librairie Plon, 1973], 2:440–43).

12
. Greatorex, 189.

13
. T. E. B. Howarth,
Citizen-king: The life of Louis-Philippe, king of the French
(London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961), 89–90.

14
. NYPL, MssCol 717: D'Auliffe [Olive] family letters, 1800–1801. See in particular no. 5:182–83 for the identification of the writer and his wife as the Olives.

15
. Edith Pilcher,
Castorland: French refugees in the western Adirondacks 1793–1814
(Harrison, New York: Harbor Hill Books, 1985), 13, 53; Gouvernet,
Journal d'une femme
, 2:83–84, 103–104; François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de La Rochefoucault-Liancourt,
Travels through the United States of North America, the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada
(London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1799), 2:465.

16
.
Ancestry.com
,
Paris, France & vicinity marriages, 1700–1907
[database online] (Provo, UT:
Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2008).

17
. New York County, Land and Property Records, Deeds, Liber 96:330–33; N.Y. Ct. Ch., Stephen Jumel vs. the Ursuline Convent of the City of New York and the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral, CL-161, 184–251.

18
. NYHS-BV Jumel, entries for May 26, 1812, and March 7, 1815.

19
. Ibid., entry for May 27, 1809.

20
. Ibid., entries for March 31, 1808, and February 4, 1813;
A season in New York 1801: letters of Harriet and Maria Trumbull
, ed. Helen M. Morgan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969): 96.

21
. NYHS-BV Jumel, entry for February 6, 1812.

22
. MJM 4.2, Eliza Jumel to Paul and Eliza Pery, August 27, 1855.

23
. Donald Fraser,
A compendium of the history of all nations …
(New York: Printed by Henry C. Southwick, 1807).

24
. Donald Fraser,
The mental flower garden: or, An instructive and entertaining companion for the fair sex
(New-York: Printed by Southwick & Hardcastle, 1807).

25
. NYHS-BV
Jumel, entry for July 22, 1813; John McVickar,
The professional years of John Henry Hobart, D.D. being a sequel to his early years
(New York: Protestant Episcopal Press, 1836), 177;
An abridgment of the Book of Martyrs
(New-York: Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1810).

26
. Geoffrey O'Brien,
The fall of the house of Walworth: A tale of madness and murder in Gilded Age America
(New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2010), 94.

27
. NYHS-BV Jumel, entries for April 7, 1813; July 20, 1813; October 18, 1813; October 25, 1814.

28
. Ibid., entries for July 19, 1814, and April 19, 1815.

29
. Ibid., entry for April 28, 1815.

30
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 3, Stephen Jumel to Eliza Jumel, February 5, 1819.

1
.
Daily Advertiser
, March 22, 1804, [3];
Spectator
, May 23, 1804, [3].

2
.
New-York Gazette
, May 28, 1804, [1] (for her berth on the Old Slip); John Lambert,
Travels through Canada and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & 1808
, 2nd ed. (London: Printed for C. Cradock and W. Joy, 1814), 2:62–64 (for the description of the port).

3
.
Daily Advertiser
, March 22, 1804, [3].

4
. Ibid.

5
. Robert P. Watson,
America's first crisis: The War of 1812
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), 12–15.