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12. Quit Claim or Release given by John James Audubon to 

 Ferdinand Rozier on the Dissolution of their Partnership 

 in Business at Saint e Genevieve, Upper Louisiana {Mis- 

 souri), April 6, 1811. 



I John Audibon having this day by mutual Consent with 

 Ferdinand Rozier, dissolved and forever closed the partnership 

 and firm of Audibon & Rozier, — and having Received from 

 said Ferdinand Rozier, payments and notes to the full amount 

 of my part of the goods & debts of the late firm of Audibon & 

 Rozier — I the said John Audibon one of the firm aforesaid, 

 do hereby release and forever quit Claim to all or any Interest 

 which I have or may have in the Stock on hand and debts due 

 to the Late Firm of Audibon & Rozier unto him the said Ferdi- 

 nand Rozier, all my rights titles, claimes and Interest in the 

 goods merchandise and debts due to the late Firm of Audibon & 

 Rozier — and do hereby authorize and empower him for my part 

 to collect the same in any manner whatseer . either privately 

 or by suit or suits in law or equity — hereby acclaiming him 

 sole and absolute proprietor and rightful owner of all the goods 

 merchandises & debts of the firm aforesaid, as completely as 

 they were the goods and property of the Late firm of Audibon 

 & Rozier — 



In witness whereof I have hereto Set my hand & Seal this 

 Sixth day of April 1811 



[Seal] 

 John Audubon 

 E d D. De Villmonte 



Note by the Author. It will be noticed that the naturalist writes his 

 name seven times as "Audibon," in this document, but signs in the way- 

 usual with him at the period. See Vol. I, p. 24. 



