David Curtiss DeForest

David Curtis De Forest was an American merchant and sailor, who wentto Buenos Aires and became a privateer, though some thought him apirate. He left $5,000 to Yale University, hence Yale's DeForestScholarship. Both his and his wife's portraits hang in the Yale ArtGallery.

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Yale's website says (2010):

"The DeForest Family Papers chronicle the movements of David Curtis deForest (1774-1825), a Yankee merchant and privateer. He lived in theRio de la Plata area from 1801 to 1817, Argentina's late colonial andrevolutionary periods, and then served as the new nation's firstconsul to the United States from 1817 to 1822. De Forest's papersdepict the Rio de la Plata's commercial and political history duringhis years there, as well as the mechanics and diplomatic implicationsof United States' privateering during Latin American wars ofindependence. The papers of another Yankee merchant, Henry Hill,document his efforts to sell arms and ammunition to South Americanrevolutionaries in 1817, and his service as the United Statesvice-consul to Valparaiso, Chile."

Also see, in Yale U. Library: De Forest family papers, 1798-1889(inclusive), 1798-1825 (bulk). Description: 4.50 linear ft.
http://orbexpress.library.yale.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=De+Forest+Family+Papers&Search_Code=TALL&DB=local&CNT=50

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Birth: March 6, 1774
Death: 1825 (51)
Son of Benjamin DeForest and Mehitable Curtis
Husband of Julia De Forest
Father of Francisca De Forest, Carlos Maria DeForest, David De Forest,Juliana De Forest and Pastora De Forest
Brother of William De Forest, Benjamin DeForest and John De Forest