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The Mystery of Peter Stewart Ney
Sat, Sep 05
|Davidson Town Hall
Historian Gary Freeze joins us to unravel the story of Salisbury schoolteacher Peter Stewart Ney, an early 19th-century immigrant to the US who claimed to be Marshal Michel Ney (image), an associate of Napoleon.
Time & Location
Sep 05, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Davidson Town Hall, 251 South St, Davidson, NC 28036, USA
About the event
Peter Stewart Ney, designer of the Davidson College seal, was an unassuming local schoolteacher who had arrived in America from France in the early 1820s. But many believed he lived a double life. On his deathbed in 1846, Ney proclaimed what many had been speculating, “I will not die with a lie on my lips! I am Marshal Ney of France!” Was he? Our expert has the story. Free.
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