Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785–1879), the daughter of a wealthy Baltimore shipping and real-estate magnate, married Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome Bonaparte, in Baltimore in 1803. The French ruler, however, had other matrimonial plans for his sibling and ordered him back to France, refused to recognize the marriage and, when unable to procure a papal annulment, had the union disavowed by a French ecclesiastical court in 1806. Bonaparte accompanied her husband to Europe, but they separated permanently even before she bore him a son in England in the summer of 1805 and returned to the United States. Although Napoleon later granted her an annual pension, she sought and obtained a divorce from the Maryland legislature in 1813. During the two decades following Napoleon’s downfall, Bonaparte traveled extensively in Europe. Her father left her very little when he died in 1834. Bonaparte’s astute business sense and frugal lifestyle, however, allowed her to leave a large estate when she died in Baltimore (ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ; DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, 1928–36, 20 vols. description ends ; Connelly, Napoleonic France description begins Owen Connelly and others, eds., Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799–1815, 1985 description ends , 77–8; Charlene Boyer Lewis, “Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: A Woman between Two Worlds,” in Leonard J. Sadosky and others, eds., Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson [2010], 247–75; New-York Tribune, 5 Apr. 1879).

William Eustis and his entourage sailed from Boston on 8 June (Boston Patriot, 10 June 1815).