She had been a slave, and asserted that once on a visit to Alexandria with her master she had seen General Washington.
From the Indian Medical Record we learn that Lieutenant Nicholas Lavin of the Grand Armee died several years ago at the age of one hundred and twenty-five, leaving a daughter of seventy-eight.

He was born in Paris in 1768, served as a hussar in several campaigns, and was taken a prisoner during the retreat from Moscow.

After his liberation he married and made his residence in Saratoff..