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| Last Name | D'ROUSSEAU D'FAYOLLE |
| First Name | PIERRE |
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| Cemetery Number | NT010 |
| Cemetery Name | TRINITY CHURCH YARD |
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| Birth Year | 1746c |
| Death Day | 9 |
| Death Month | JUN |
| Death Year | 1780 |
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| Notes | No gravestone for him. Information from death notice in newspaper.
[After the action, Hermione sailed for the nearest port, Newport, where she could land her wounded. On the afternoon of 8 June, as Hermione was approaching Newport, a small boat came out to the ship in the fog, carrying the 34-year old aide and friend of Lafayette, the chevalier du Rousseau de Fayolle, to confer with Latouche-Tréville. Poorly handled by the seaman in change, the boat collided with Hermione as it came along the port side. As the boat was being driven under the ship’s quarter gallery, du Rousseau de Fayolle was violently struck on the temple and he fell back into the boat. Hermione’s sailors immediately brought him up onboard the ship and attempted in vain to resuscitate him, but he had died instantly from the blow to his head.
The 34-year old Pierre du Rousseau de Fayolle had been a commanding captain in the regiment of Brie and a protégé of the duc de Broglie. He first left France for America on board the ship La Victoire in March 1777, in company with Lafayette and Baron de Kalb on their initial voyage to America.]
[Hermione anchored off Goat Island just at night fall, and at 5 p.m., the following evening, 9 June, the prayers for the dead were said on board the ship. Colonel William Green, commanding the American defenses at Newport, assisted in the service and a detachment of troops escorted the body to Trinity Church, where the Chevalier du Rousseau de Fayolle was buried and the honor guard fired three rifle volleys over his grave.] |
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