Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh, an aide-de-camp to George Washington in the Revolutionary War, moved to Troupville, now Sodus Point, in 1803. His letters to and from Washington and Thomas Jefferson were thought lost when his widow’s house burned in 1846, until 2015, when a reference found by Rosa Fox led village historian Bruce Farrington to four letters with Washington and ten with Jefferson in their archives. Written between April 1780 and December 1807, they range from his exchange as a prisoner of war and a land-and-cash lottery he devised to pay his debts, to Cumberland corn seed sent to Jefferson and, in 1807, how poorly Troupville was defended.
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Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters (Introduction)
Village historian Bruce Farrington introduces letters of Peregrine Fitzhugh, Washington's aide-de-camp who settled at Troupville in 1803, long believed lost in an 1846 fire.
