Friday, November 12, 1813: Two hundred and thirteen years ago today, Hector St. John de Cre’vecoeur died. “A French-American, he left behind a vivid portrait of life on the eighteenth-century American frontier. Cre’vecoeur had emigrated to the New
World in 1755 and eventually settled on a farm in New York. His impressions, published in England in 1782 as