The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-03-06
CAPTAIN MITCHELL.
Outlines Of the Y markabio b!fe Of n
NOied Mariner,
Some Of Whose descendants Live In
Dallas.
A True Son Of Salt The Old Ocean.

DALLAS, March III iitor HSR-
ALB Toe publication in sne HERALD OF
THIS morning, OF this ~ Gent and unlque Dill
of fading, signed by Captain David Miicnti'
of the brig Cordelia, then al snchor In tie
port OF Gustavia, mot GslvesioD, rs
printed, J and dated IN ~ Bartholomew,
West Ipuies. NAV % b, 1872 suggests some
tur her illusions to he sume what roms,to
career OF that long Distinguished mariner.
His grind father, Francois Michel or
Michelle. a collateral scion of the house OF
Am hon, was .xiied from France Tor poll''-
cal eau sea aud his e tstes cOnh'cstrd. ne
found refuge In the Cape dc VERDE 's'ano',
Vnere mis- sons Fr,,coi. ana fiefre WEI.
horn Atom I740 he removed o
St,njnptun. C,nnec Gu. A little t r he
WIS smne,t "a by the Frencn government
and grauted lands in The French West la
dies. To whicn he removed and on which ne
and I'll his family died, except ng the Two
song named. Ofthese, Pierre Michel ut
lad in New o leans aud became the pro-
yenitur of a numerous and wealthy poster
ity. Frauc)is returned TO Connecticut be-
came |, sea c.ptaiu, anglicised the name
into Mitchell, married Miss Mary Leeds,
an accomplished lady, mad born 10 him
five sous and tour daughters, and wss
drowned At Sea in 1893 of the Inasua H.
| Iands. and buried o. toe Island Ut 81 KITS
| In the West Indies or his children James
risd marshsl OF Connecticut nnder Pest
dent J,cksor IN 1885, Mary
sas yraudm ,ther of Tx Governor Snrspus
OF Rhode Island; Priscilla was the MOTH
OF tue lat. Governor James q smith ot tns
same state; Francois WAS lost al sea In
1903: Pierre died at sea OF yellow fever In
1850 aud xas buried at Demersrd, 10 an'-
ana, South America; Joseph, when s'x
Years old, was soodentiy Filled a. Foi.
Ofinvoid; in his native town, on the spot
where Benedict Arnold massacrsd the pris-
onsrs, septenlber G, 1881; his twin sister,
Mrs. Nancy Lsthsui, YET living In her Mat &.
ty.seysnth year, 10 the mother OF
tho Hon. Francis w. Latham,
member Of the Texas legisls-
ture from Brownsv'lls;. Jeanette,
still surylying In her ninety first year, is the
mother Of M, Addison II. White, well.
known business man OF PROV =
dsnce. Rhode Islapd; the other and the OLD Z
Of the children vas Captain David
uitchtil. who was q mariner from boyhood.
Al nineteen years Of age, By the den,h OF
the captain at sea, he became commander
Of a ship bound tor Liverpool, and was
continued az such BY the owners, desoite
his youth. Happening to DO in Paris on
The 2lst of January, 1893. no was present vt
the execution OF Louis XVI. Lao In 1871,
honnd from the West Indie. for Liverpool,
his shin Vas captured by n French man-oi.
war. Hs was conveyed to France by the
war ship, but MS own vcsrei way recap
tured nv British man.of-war and car led
! into Falmouth, England. After consider
able d, ten,ion he was released and recoy-
cred his ship by paying one-sighth oil the
vessel aud cargo as salvage. Captain
Mitchell was also In command OF
a ship in Cape Francois, San Domingo, Ut
the time of the terrible instruction and
massacre OF the whites By the tlscks aud
pullstoes, md saved macy from destruc-
tion by getting them on board " his vessel.
These arr but f.T u many incidents in
hjs eventual life. n 1892 be married Mics
Lucy Avery, reared ave cons and
four daughters ard died on the "a h OF No.
yember, 1895, IN Urotonp, Copnscticu', his
native p,sce. OF his children, Francis F..
died In I,ouisian. IN 1867. EhsnsEsr A, In
Georgia In las, Thomas l., long
Of Apsl,chicole, Florida, and now OF
Rhode Island, 10 the father OF hgsThomas
3. Mitchell, OF Dhifn; Colby q. died In
lsll. = missionary 10 the koordtstan noun.
tsins. Asia. Hannah ". IL the widow OF
Mr.. Charles W. Eidridge, Hartford. Ccn-
nec,icut; Mary n is the wife OF John
He ~ Brown, Ia las, TeINs; and Lucy A.
r. tue widow OF Mr. NJ. A. Myers, OF New
York. Their mother, Mrs. Lucy Avery
michel, died Oh sit to hcr daughter In
Texas 10 1852. FhIkNp.