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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 Sainte 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. 



