Commission by William Henry Harrison, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Indiana territory to Pierre Provenchere as Recorder. 19th Century facsimile.

Indiana territory: 1804. 19th Century facsimile; likely a collotype.21 x 32.5cm....William Henry Harrison, governor and commander in chief of the Indiana territory (1773- 1841)...William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest President to be elected at the time. On his 32nd day, he became the first to die in office, serving the shortest tenure in U.S. Presidential history.....Pierre Provenchere 1741-1831 :Pierre Provenchere de Villiers, a former tutor of King Louis XVI’s nephew, Charles Ferdinand Bourbon, Duc de Berry, immigrated to Delaware with his widowed daughter shortly after the outbreak of the French Revolution. Early in 1808 he moved to Philadelphia. Berry urged him to return to France after the fall of Napoleon, but Provenchere apparently decided to remain with his American relations (Dorothy Garesché Holland, The Garesché, De Bauduy, and Des Chapelles Families: History and Genealogy [1963], 33, 61, 78–9, 124–5, 140; James Robinson, The Philadelphia Directory for 1809 [Philadelphia, 1809]; John A. Paxton, The Philadelphia Directory and Register for 1813 [Philadelphia, 1813]; James Wilkinson to TJ, 3 Apr. 1807 [DLC: Aaron Burr Papers]).