DUFOUR'S BOOK 31 



Adapted to the soil and climate of the United 

 States." Upon the title-page he speaks of himself 

 as "formerly of Swisserland, and now an American 

 citizen, cultivator of the vine from his childhood, 

 and for the last twenty -five years occupied in that 

 line of business, first in Kentucky, and now on the 

 borders of the Ohio, near Vevay, Indiana." The book 

 was printed in Cincinnati in 1826, by S. J. Browne. 

 The author set out to distribute his book to friends 

 in Kentucky, but took sick on the journey, and re- 

 turned to the new settlement at Vevay, where he 

 died early in 1827. John Francis Dufour resigned 

 his office of Associate Judge in 1827, in order that 

 he might give his attention to the administration of 

 his brother's estate. In 1828, we find John James's 

 son, Daniel Vincent, who had come to America when 

 he reached his majority, selling seventy -five acres 

 of the old vineyard tract to Michael Salter for two 

 and a -half dollars an acre. The land was not 

 deeded to Salter, however, until April 23rd, 1831, 

 when he had paid a note which was given in 

 partial settlement for the land. The land upon which 

 the vineyard and buildings stood is now the property 

 of George McQuery, whose grandfather is said to 

 have procured it from the Dufours in 1828. 



The traveler who visits the spot to-day finds an 

 open glebe stretching from the Kentucky River to the 

 hills (Fig. 3). Upon this lowland he will see a 

 clump of bushes and poke -weeds, and a few stones 

 (Fig. 4), marking the site of the old log house, 

 which perished about 1845 to 1850. Near by is a 

 broken and hollow pear tree (Fig. 5), three feet in 

 diameter, which tradition says was brought from 



