AUDUBON JOURNAL 



secure my Future Wife and Familly the Comforts We 

 had both been used to— I travelled through the West- 

 ern Country and Made Louisville my Choice for a 

 residence — On my return and being of age I married 

 your Beloved Mother on the 5^^ of April 1 808 and 

 removed to Kentucky— Louisville did not suit our 

 Plans and we left that place with a View to Visit 

 St. Louis on the Mississipi; but it is so seldom that our 

 Wishes are favored that we did not reach that Place, 

 for My Partner not being on good Terms with My 

 Wife, I left her and You Victor at Henderson, you 

 when there a babe, having reached St. Genevieve 

 through Many Dificulties, Ice, &'' I parted from M' 

 Rozier and Walked to Henderson in Four Days 165 

 Miles. 



Your present Uncle T. W. Bakewell Joined me in 

 opening a House at New Orleans that the War with 

 England Made us Remove to Henderson. — 



This Place saw My best days. My Happiest, My 

 Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse 

 and a sweet Daughter I Calculated, to Live and died in 

 Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed, 

 but I was intended to meet Many Events of a Dis- 

 agreable Nature; A Third Partner Was taken in and 

 the Building of a Large Steam Mill, the Purchasing 

 of Too Many goods sold on Credit of course Lost, 

 reduced us — Divided us — 



Your Uncle who had maried a Short time previous 



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