The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel (53 page)

38
.
New-York Evening Post
, June 16, 1821, [2].

1
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 6, letter book of Stephen Jumel.

2
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 9.

3
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letters 2, 2a, 3, 5–7, etc.

4
. ADL, 4 Q 1 445 (May 22, 1821).

5
.
Galignani's Paris guide
, 241–44, 246. (see chap. 14, n. 27)

6
. Jacques Hillairet,
Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris
(Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1997), 616.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Michaud,
Biographie universelle
, 543 (see chap. 9, n. 5).

9
. NYHS-AHMC,
Jumel, Mme. Stephen, Adèle Olive to Eliza Jumel, headed “à Larue ce Mardi matin [at Larue this Tuesday morning].”

10
. NYHS-AHMC, Jumel, Mme. Stephen, Madame Butler to Eliza Jumel, “Samedi le 4 [Saturday the 4th].”

11
. Shelton, 161.

12
. Mansel,
The court of France
, 123, 127–28 (see chap. 14, n. 15).

13
. Shelton, 162–63.

14
. Mansel,
The court of France
, 124, 127–28, 159.

15
. NYHS-JP, box 3, folder 3, D
^ei
d'Egvilly to Eliza Jumel;
Almanach royal, pour l'an M DCCC XXVI
(Paris: Chez A. Guyot et Scribe, 1826), 53.

16
. Shelton, 163–64.

17
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 3.

18
. Ibid.

19
. NYHS-AHMC, Jumel, Mary E., Mary Jumel to Maria Jones, n.d.

20
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 3.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Ibid.

25
. Washington Irving,
Journals and notebooks: Volume III, 1819–1827
, ed. Walter A. Reichart (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970), 430.

26
. BM 710-J.

1
. Larry Neal, “The financial crisis of 1825 and the restructuring of the British financial system,”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
80, no. 3 (May/June 1998): 64–65; Michael D. Bordo, “Commentary,”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
80, no. 3 (May/June 1998): 79.

2
. Bordo, “Commentary,” 78; Neal, “The financial crisis of 1825,” 64.

3
. “Money,”
Niles' Weekly Register
, September 10, 1825, 23.

4
. “Cotton—its supply and demand,”
Niles' Weekly Register
, September 24, 1825, 52.

5
. “Money—stocks—banks,”
Niles' Weekly Register
, December 3, 1825, 210.

6
. “Foreign news. From London papers of December 8,”
Niles' Weekly Register
, January 21, 1826, 327; Carlos Marichal,
A century of debt crises in Latin America: From independence to the Great Depression, 1820–1930
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 44; Neal, “The financial crisis of 1825,” 65.

7
. “Foreign news,”
Niles' Weekly Register
, January 21, 1826, 327.

8
. “Latest news. By an arrival at New York, with London papers to the 3rd January,”
Niles' Weekly Register
, February 18, 1826, 404; Neal, “Financial crisis of 1825,” 65.

9
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 5.

10
. Marichal,
Century of debt crises
, 46.

11
. “Later foreign news,”
Niles' Weekly Register
, April 15, 1826, 117.

12
. “Foreign
news,”
Niles' Weekly Register
, August 26, 1826, 449.

13
. Marichal,
Century of debt crises
, 47–49.

14
. Ibid., 51, 53–54, 59.

15
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 8.

16
. Shelton, 165–66.

17
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, received October 4, 1826.

18
. N.Y. Sup. Ct., Nelson Chase vs. William Inglis Chase et al., 1880 C-3 (1880), exhibit C, no. 9 (this is a duplicate of exhibit C, no. 2, which is misdated January 13, 1824).

19
. N.Y. Sup. Ct., Nelson Chase vs. William Inglis Chase et al., 1880 C-3 (1880), exhibit C, no. 4.

20
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 83, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, December 1, 1826.

21
. Ibid.

22
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 83, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, September 21, 1826.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Ibid.

25
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, January 1, 1827.

26
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, received October 4, 1826.

27
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 83, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, December 1, 1826.

28
. Ibid.

29
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, received October 4, 1826.

30
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, November 5, 1826.

31
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, December 5, 1826.

1
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 83, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, December 1, 1826.

2
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 84, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, September 21, 1826.

3
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 3, Stephen Jumel to Eliza Jumel, October 14, 1826.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ibid.

7
. N.Y. Ct. Ch., Stephen Jumel vs. the Ursuline Convent of the City of New York and the Trustees of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, CL-161. The original deal for the land was with Saint Peter's Church, but Saint Patrick's was dragged into the proceeding because it was incorporated briefly with Saint Peter's (between 1813 and 1817).

8
. Ibid.; NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 3, Stephen Jumel to Eliza Jumel, October 14, 1826.

9
.
Ancestry.com
,
Paris, France & Vicinity Deaths, 1707–1907
[database online] (Provo, UT:
Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2008), reconstituted death certificate for Victor Prosper [Benjamin] Desobry; 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 20.

10
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 20.

11
. Ibid.

12
. Ibid.

13
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 13; ADL, 3 U1 / 293, no. 3259.

14
. 1876
Bill of Complaint, letter 11.

15
. ADL, 3 U1 / 293, fol. 77–78.

16
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 11.

17
. Ibid.

18
. Ibid.

19
. MJM 4.7, two English translations of an undated letter from Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel.

20
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 84, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, September 21, 1826.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Shelton, 162.

23
. Silo's Fifth Avenue Art Galleries,
Catalogue of the Jumel Collection
, nos. 99, 130 (see chap. 17, n. 25). Unfortunately the content of the two letters is not recorded.

24
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 84, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, September 21, 1826.

25
. Ibid.

26
. Ibid.

27
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 83, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, December 1, 1826.

28
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, February 15, 1827.

29
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, January 1, 1827.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Ibid.

32
. BM 710-J. The mortgage agreement was drawn up in Paris on September 16, 1824.

33
. Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford Bridge Company Record Book (see chap. 10, n. 47).

34
. The company's record book shows that Stephen was paid quarterly dividends on forty shares from the issuance of the first dividend on July 2, 1811, but beginning with the quarterly payment of October 1, 1821, the block of shares is listed as belonging to Lesparre.

35
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, November 5, 1826.

36
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 83, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, December 1, 1826.

37
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, January 1, 1827.

38
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 28.

39
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 24.

40
. NYHS-JP, box 2, folder A, James A. Morse to Eliza Jumel, February 14, 1827.

41
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, February 15, 1827.

42
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, May 1, 1827.

43
. Ibid.

44
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 86, Stephen Jumel to Eliza Jumel, October 14, 1827.

45
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 87, Stephen Jumel to Eliza Jumel, December 23, 1827.

1
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 15.

2
. NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 1, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, May 1, 1827.

3
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 19.

4
. 1876
Bill of Complaint, letter 20.

5
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, 14.

6
. Ibid., 26.

7
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 37.

8
. Irving,
Journals and notebooks
, 430 (see chap. 18, n. 25).

9
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 37.

10
. Norma Basch,
In the eyes of the law: Women, marriage, and property in nineteenth-century New York
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982), 63, 78–79; Hendrik Hartog,
Man and wife in America: A history
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 170–72.

11
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 37.

12
. Ibid.

13
. N.Y. Sup. Ct., Nelson Chase vs. William Inglis Chase et al., 1880 C-3 (1880), exhibit C, nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 (identical copy of 8).

14
. B-779, box 112, deposition of Nelson Chase.

15
. Basch,
In the eyes of the law
, 16–17, 75, 89.

16
. Ibid., 89.

17
. PUL Fuller, box 2, folder 83, Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel, December 1, 1826.

18
. NYHS-JP, box 1 folder 3, Stephen Jumel to Eliza Jumel, August 19, 1826.

1
.
New-York Spectator
, July 29, 1828, [1]; 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 24. According to the
Spectator
, there were only eighty-four passengers in steerage.

2
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 24.

3
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 34.

4
. MJM, 4.7, two English translations of an undated letter from Eliza Jumel to Stephen Jumel.

5
. Ibid.

6
. N.Y. Sup. Ct., Nelson Chase vs. William Inglis Chase et al., 1880 C-3 (1880), exhibit C, no. 19.

7
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 35.

8
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 25.

9
. Jennifer L. Goloboy, “Business friendships and individualism in a mercantile class of citizens in Charleston,” in
Class matters: Early North America and the Atlantic world
, eds. Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 109–111, 118–19.

10
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 25.

11
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 24.

12
. NYHS-JP, box 2, folder B, receipt of passage to Charleston, November 27, 1828; NYHSJP, box 3, folder E, receipt for a month's rent, Charleston, January 30, 1829.

13
. 1876 Bill of Complaint, letter 24.

14
. MJM 98.12, Stephen Jumel to Eliza Jumel, January 22, 1829 (for the details and quotations in this and the prior two paragraphs).

15
. This
quotation and the other details on hiring and pay in this paragraph are found in NYHS-JP, box 1, folder 11, business notebook of Stephen Jumel.

16
.
New-York Evening Post
, February 13, 1830, [3].

17
.
New-York Evening Post
, October 12, 1830, [1].

1
. B-779, box 112, deposition of Nelson Chase.

2
. B-779, box 112, deposition of Nelson Chase (for the date of Mary's birth). Mary turned thirty on September 6, 1831.

3
. B-779, box 112, deposition of Nelson Chase (for the details and quotation in this paragraph).

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. 1873 Transcript of Record, 306.

7
.
FamilySearch.org
(record of the marriage of Nelson Chase and Hattie Crombie Dunning, August 12, 1868) (for the names of his parents); B-779, box 112, deposition of Nelson Chase.

8
. B-779, box 112, deposition of Nelson Chase.

9
. Gary B. Nash, “The social origins of antebellum lawyers,” in
Three centuries of social mobility
, ed. Pessen, 94 (see prologue, n. 6); Samuel Haber,
The quest for authority and honor in the American professions, 1750–1900
(Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 87.