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lived in the commune of Chatelard, Districl of Vevay, 

 Canton de Leman (now de Vand), Switzerland. The 

 family was French. By a first marriage he had two 

 Bons, John James, Jr., and Daniel. 1>> a second mar- 

 riage, there were six children, Jeane Marie, Antoi- 

 nette, John Francis, Susannah Margaretta, John 

 David, and Ainu'. John James Dufour, the son. 

 married in Switzerland, and had our son, Daniel Vin- 

 cent, but the wife never came to America. The pro- 

 ject of a great grap< mmune was talked over and 



perfected in the family circle in Switzerland, and 

 finally every son and daughter of the family, the 

 grandson, and a few associates, cast their lots in the 

 wilderness of the New World to work oul a livelihood 

 for themselves and a mission for mankind. Without 

 further mention of the father and mother in the home 

 ii'vt in Switzerland, we will now follow the fortunes 

 of John James, the eldesl son. and of bis associates. 

 John -lames Dufour, Second, the founder of the 

 colony, Bel off for America in March, 1796. Be took 

 the brig "Sally" for Philadelphia on dime 10, and 

 landed in the New World August 12. He paid $50, 

 beside baggage charges, Cor bis passage. For two or 

 three years, Dufour sel himself to preparation for hi> 

 future work by visiting all the leading vineyards in 

 the country, going a> far west as the French settle- 

 ments at Kaskaskia. He visited the estate of Jeffer- 

 son, at Monticello, in L799, and found that the vine 

 "had been abandoned, or lefl without anj care for 

 tin-'-- or four years before, which proved, evidently, 



that it had QOl been profitable." There was a vine- 

 yard on the estate of Mr. Carroll, at Carrollton, below 

 Baltimore, where, in 1796, "thej had tried a feu sorts 



