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land was purchased of William Hazelrigg, who pat- 

 ented it from the government on or about 1785. 

 When the vineyard should come into bearing, Dufour 

 was to receive $1,000 a year out of the produce, or 

 nothing if there should be no produce. The 160 re- 

 maining shares were to be appropriated as follows: 



For 633 acres of land . $633 00 



For 5 families of negroes 5,000 00 



For tools, victuals, and other support . . . 1,000 00 



Expenses of getting vine scions 800 00 



Incidental expenses 567 00 



$8,000 00 



The full number of shares was not taken, and the 

 concern set out in the spring of 1799 with five acres 

 planted to thirty -five varieties, many or most of 

 which were obtained from Legaux. 



The affair being now fully on its feet, the re- 

 maining members of the Dufour family were ready 

 to join the enterprise. On New Year's Day, 1801, 

 the adventurers came together in Switzerland, and 

 prepared to take leave of home and country. Seven- 

 teen souls set sail in early spring upon a voyage 

 which lasted 100 days. They landed in Norfolk in 

 May. In this company were the seven remaining 

 Du fours, Jean Daniel Mererod (who, either in Europe 

 or America, married Antoinette Dufour) , Francis 

 Louis de Siebenthal, John Francis de Siebenthal and 

 Philip Bettens, together with women and children. 

 They crossed the Alleghanies to Pittsburg with 

 wagons, the women and children who could not 

 walk, going as freight, at so much per hundred 

 pounds. At Pittsburg, the colonists took boats on 

 the Ohio, and set their faces toward that wild and 



