Past Event: 2nd Annual Revolutionary War Encampment Dinner 🗓

Event Date : 2017 Sep Sat

Please join us for a Revolutionary evening as we toast to the Marquis de Chastellux, the principal liaison between General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette.  Dine with us at the Tunxis Golf Club Pavilion on September 9th, with cocktails beginning at 6:00 p.m. and dinner to follow at 7:00.  Silent auction items will be available, including a favorite Madeira of George Washington.  Tickets are $100 per person and can be purchased using the button below, or by sending a check to the Farmington Historical Society, P.O. Box 1645, Farmington, CT 06034 by September 2nd.

Please note, tickets purchased online are subject to a $5.00 convenience fee.

We honor Francois Jean de Chastellux, the Marquis de Chastellux, during our 2nd Revolutionary War Encampment.  The Marquis was the principal liaison between General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette.  He was one of the forty members of the French Academy and Major-General in the French Army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau.  Having passed through North America and Farmington between 1780 and 1782, Chastellux wrote about his travels.  In 1780 he wrote, “I reached Farmington three in the afternoon.  It is a pretty little town with a handsome meeting house, and fifty houses collected, all neat and well built.”  The Marquis de Chastellux was directed by Colonel Wadsworth in Hartford to stay with Mr. Lewis while traveling through Farmington.

He continues, “On my return from this walk I found an excellent dinner prepared for me, without my having said a word to the family.  After dinner, about the close of the day, Mr. Lewis, who had been abroad on his affairs during a part of the day, came into the parlour where I was, seated himself by the fire, lighted up his pipe, and entered into conversation with me.  I found him an active, and intelligent man, well acquainted with public affairs, and with his own: he carried on a trade of cattle, like all farmers in Connecticut, to be sent to Fishkill.  For each state is obliged to furnish not only money, but other articles for the army: those to the eastward supply it with cattle, rum and salt; and those to the westward with flour and forage.”