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Thomas-Antoine de Mauduit du Plessis (1753-1791) was born in France and traveled to America in 1777, where he served in the Continental Army under George Washington during the American Revolution. After the war, Mauduit du Plessis returned to France for a short period, before moving to Georgia where he purchased land from Don Juan McQueen in hopes of becoming a wealthy planter. Unable to withstand the brutal climate, he returned to France, joined the French Army, and in 1791, he was killed in Saint-Domingue during the Haitian rebellion.
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“[Diary entry: 14 August 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0001-0002-0…. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5, 1 July 1786 – 31 December 1789, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, pp. 26–27.]
“Thomas Jefferson to John McQueen, 16 January 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-09-02-0169. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 9, 1 November 1785 – 22 June 1786, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954, p. 178.]
“Chevalier de Mauduit du Plessis to Alexander Hamilton, 11 January 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-0004. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 2, 1779–1781, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, p. 2.]
"Mauduit du Plessis (Thomas-Antoine, chevalier de)," Grande dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, par Pierre Larousse (Paris, 1866-1890), https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k205362h/f1360.image.r=Mauduit.langFR, accessed 27 April 2026.