The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-29

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| death OF the dauphin there was printed In
| newspapers of Austria, Great Britain and
| the United States. what purported to be
authentic accounts of how the prince was
taken from prison and that he was known
to be alive and we'll. During the next
twenty-five or thirty years there are to be
found frequent notices in the newspapers
and periodicals of Williams in connection
with the dauphinship, but not till about
1850 was the claim OF identity definitely
set up. Then began to come out many
heretofore hidden matters that II true
Dor efavorably on the case Of Williams.
Mrs. Dudley, the patroness Of the Dudley
observatory, remembered that in Albany,
in 1875, she was taken by her mother to see
a French family just arrived, consisting
of four individuals. There were a gen.
tieman and lady and two children-one a
boy about years old. Madam said that
she was maid of honor to Marie An
toinette and was separated from her on
the terrace Of the palace. She appeared
very much agitated. Soon this family dis
appeared from Albany. I'VE never heard
of this family after they left Albany"
was her statement. but In looking at the
features of Eleazar Williams l think 1
can discover considerable likeness to those
of the boy in charge of the French wo-
man." The name OF the French family
was De Jardin. and a man of that name
was in Whitehall, N Y, up to the year
1909 He had dealings with the Bleeckers,
bankers of Albany. who cashed drafts and
paid notes for him.
]. Stanley Smith. OF the Albany Express,
was authority for the statement that GER
tain gentlemen for many years received
regularly sum OF money from France to
be applied to the education and clothing
OF williams. and he instanced John Beeck-
er as the receiver.
The Prince de Joinville was the second
2On of Inllfa pbi1ippe Nd bn NIT fatS
TO this country in 1874 Instead OF making
the ordinary tour. and to the surprise of
the Officers in his company he went much
out or his way to meet an old man among
the Indians. He called on Mrc Dudley at
Saratoga Springs and obtained Williams
ADDRESS. He then set out for the wes. At
Cleveland. by the statement Of J. o. Bray
man. editor Of the Buffalo Courier. De
Joinvflle repeatedly inquired after Will
Jams, and said he should meet him Az
Mackinaw Williams came on board the
same vessel in which the prince was Cant
John shook, OF Huron. o., introduced
them. At Green Bay the two had n pri-
vate interview. In his conversation. a.
williams declared to DIR. Hanson. the
prince informed him that he was a de-
scendant Of the Bourbons and asked him
to sign document abdicating ali claim To
the French throne, to which was annexed
q stipulation that he SHOULD receive a
ippe, and what of the personal property
OF Louis XVI. could be recovered Will
ianis further raid that he refused to sien
the document. At parting, IL he is to be
believed. the prince invited him to visit
the Tuileries. and afterward sent him a
eoio snunbox and other valuable presents.
Another attegtant to the alleged fact that
Louis XVII. was In this country was
Mrs. Margaret Deboit, Of the household Of
Count D'Artois, afterward Charlie, "
who was In New Orleans in 1906 as an ex-
lie. She said that she was told by the
Ducness OF Augouleme that she knew her
brother to be alive and safe in America.
An attempt was made to obtain afn.
davits to discredit this whole story Mrs.
Williams, the reputed mother of Eleazar.
was induced by the Catholic priest at st.
Regis to sign and deposa to a paper in
English stating that he was her son. she,
however, at her own instance. made a
counter affidavit that he was her adopted
son. HIS name does not appear in .hs
baptismal register at Caghnewaga. where
the rest OF that family is recorded.
Such. then. is the story OF the American
claimant to the dauphinship Of France in
the days Of the Louis. 1t beats any French
story Of the kind all hollow,
Parkman on williams.
Francis Parkman. in the first volume OF
his work, "A Half Century of Conflict" in
the chapter on the Deerheld massacre, no.
tees incidentally the case of Eleazer VIII
liams, the pretended dauphin. In i7o4 tho
minister at Deerfield. Mass, was John VIII
nams, graduate of Harvard college and
man of ability and resolution. He was
pastor over about sixty people, inha pitants
OF the place. when party of Caughna-
waga Indians from Canada attacked the
settlement, Among those massacred was
John Williams wife, while he himself and
his children were made captives and taken
to Canada, but not all together. At the
mouth of the White river, where now is
White River Junction. on the Connecticut
river, the family was separated. The
father was taken In one direction and the
six children were carried of In various d.
rections. Eunice. the eldest daughter, was
well treated and conducted TO the Jesuit
mission at st. Louis. at the home of tho
Caughnawagas. After remaining In cap
tivity a year Mr.. Williams was exchanged
for prisoner In the hands of the Massa-
chusetts men. But Eunice was not inclined
TO return. She was under tho influence
OF the Jesuits. and at the mission or in
tho wigwams OF the Indians she remained
till she had forgotten her English cate
chism. was baptised and became as one of
the natives of the forest. She was mar
ried to an Indian of the tribe. who thence
forward called himself Williams. Thus"
says Parkman. her hybrid children bore
her family name" He also says: Many
years after In t740 she came with her hus-
band to visit her relatives In Deerneld
dressed as squRw and wrapped In an
Indian blanket. Nothing would induce her
to stay. though she was persuaded on
one occasion TO put on n civilized dress
and so 90 church. after which she lima
tiently discarded her gown and resumed
her blanket. As she was kindly treated
by her relatives, she came again the next
year. bringing two OF her haif-breed chu.
dren. and twice after repeated the visit.
She lived 10 a great age. q squaw
to the last" one OF her grandsons. Ele-
arar Williams. turned Protestant. was edu.