Samuel Breck Diary 1814 – 1840
From the personal diary of Samuel Breck:
June 7, 1814
This day the great news of the dethronement of Buonaparte (sic) and restoration of the Bourbons arrived.
September 1, 1815
Joseph Bonaparte. This Ex-King has been in Philada. lately, and visited the Woodlands a few days ago. He expressed himself much pleased with the botanick garden, walks, shrubbery, house, paintings and prospect. He has ridden a good deal about this neighborhood, and has taken, I am informed, the large house near New York called Mount Alta, formerly the residence of Lord Cochrane. He has reason to congratulate himself upon his good fortune in getting to this favoured land. His brother Napoleon is a prisoner on board the Northumberland British 74, going to St. Helena; his brother Lucian is a prisoner at Turin; his brother Jerome is a prisoner and wounded at Valanciennes; and his brother Louis is writing novels in some village in Switzerland.