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Later life ? Skipwith was elected to serve in the Louisiana State Senate. In December 1814, during the War of 1812, Magloire Guichard and Skipwith sponsored a legislative resolution to grant amnesty to "the privateers lately resorting to Barataria, who might be deterred from offering their services for fear of persecution." This led to The Bonnie Blue Flaa of ^ean La^te anc* ^is men j?'n'ng in the defense of New Orleans when the city West Florida was attacked by British forces in January 1815. In 1827, Skipwith, Armand Duplantier, Antoine Blanc, Thomas B. Robertson and Sebastien Hiriart received permission from the state legislature to organize a corporation called the Agricultural Society of Baton Rouge. Skipwith died at his Monte Sano Plantation on the bluffs above Baton Rouge on January 7, 1839 at the age of 74. References ? David A. Bice. The Original Lone Star Republic: Scoundrels, Statesmen and Schemers of the 1810 West Florida Rebellion. Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2004. ISBN 1-891647-81-4 ? Roger G. Kennedy. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-19-515347-2 External links ? Governor Fulwar Skipwith's Speech (http://fcit.usf.edU/florida/docs/g/govspch.htm) to the West Florida Legislature. ? Fulwar Skipwith Papers (http://www.visitmysticseaport.com/library/Manuscripts/coll/coll078/coll078.cfm) at Mystic Seaport. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulwar_Skipwith" Categories: 1765 births | 1839 deaths | People from Virginia | Louisiana Purchase | American diplomats | Louisiana State Senators ? This page was last modified on 13 June 2008, at 08:19. ? All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia? is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
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