Nora's dolls and loyalty oath

[Susan Higginbotham]

I was browsing on Fold3 tonight and found some material that must have been added since my last search there--the loyalty oath Nora Fitzpatrick was required to take before her release on April 22, the receipt she signed for her possessions at the boardinghouse, including two "doll babies dressed," and the order for her rearrest two days later. Just when I thought I'd run out of cool things to find online!

[Gene C]

Great research Susan. You have posted some interesting items and findings about Nora. Amazing to me that documents such as these (that probably didn't seem all that important back then) still exist over 150 years after the fact

[BettyO]

Fold 3 is a wonderful site - I'll have to check it out again....

Thanks ever so much for sharing, Susan! I have to agree with Gene - how did any of this stuff ever escape Mr. Hall, and others? perhaps they found it back in the day, but didn't discussed it and it's tucked away in their files....

I found this online also - a Bill from Charles Gautier's Confectionary -

   

In 1853, a description of his restaurant appeared in the Alexandria Gazette:


"Entering the main front door from the broad sidewalk of one of the most frequented parts of the avenue, you find yourself in a handsome Confectionary and Comestible Store, the counters of white marble, the floor of chequer-work, the walls and ceiling highly embellished, and lighted, at night, by gas emitted from a chandelier of much taste and great costliness. Immediately in the rear of this, but still in the same room, you advance, up a step or two, to a saloon with walls beautifully papered, and fittingly ceiled and carpeted, containing series of marble-topped tables and exquisite chairs to match, for the accommodation of lady visitors or parties of ladies and gentlemen…. Descending into the lower regions of the establishment, we encounter a room for the making of Ice Cream, three apartments for the manufacture of French Confectionary, store rooms, oven, kitchen, furnace-room, &c., all fitted up with a view to convenience and labor-saving, and after the most modern and approved plans…."