Michel-Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur came to the English colonies in 1759 or 1760 from Canada where he had served with Montcalm's army. He worked as a surveyor near Albany, NY, and founded the first American botanical garden in New Haven, CT. He also promoted the first trans-Atlantic shipping line between New York and Lorient and served as the first French consul in New York. He is also the author of Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth Century America. His work has been translatted by Clarissa Spencer Bostel-Mann.
