338 APP-biJNJJlCJiS 



7. Accounts of WiUiam BakeweU, of "Fatland Ford," as 

 protege of his future son-in-law and as attorney or agent 

 for Audubon 8f Rozier, giving certain exact indications 



Mess" Audubon & Rozier 



1809 



Advertisers & Vendue Exps 12.82 



25 Bills payable to W. Thomas 607.10 



Cash p'J M^ Page for pow' of Attorney 1.37 



13 Paid Attachment fees 9.28 



Cash paid for tax 2.91 



25 mortes [.?] & half taxes 7 



Commission 7998 a 1 1-2 per Cent 119.97 



Jany 23 omitted Exps at Vendue 3.77 



$1176.91 



vertisements in Philadelphia and Norristown" possibly had reference to 

 the lease and final sale of "Mill Grove" of the year before. Miers Fisher 

 was the Quaker merchant, who for many years served as Lieutenant Audu- 

 bon's American agent and attorney, and who was later the adviser of his 

 son and Ferdinand Rozier. Thomas W. Pears, a relative by marriage of 

 the Bakewells, was with Audubon in Benjamin Bakewell's office in New 

 York, and afterwards associated with him and Thomas W. BakeweU in 

 their disastrous mill experiment at Henderson, Kentucky. The biU of 

 William Thomas, former Quaker tenant of "Mill Grove," was possibly in 

 liquidation of his claim against Lieutenant Audubon and Dacosta in their 

 mining operations at this farm (see the letters to Dacosta, Vol. I, p. 117). 

 The credit entry under May 12, 1808, "formon — 31.84," may represent in- 

 terest collected on an unsettled claim of Lieutenant Audubon against Mr. 

 Formon, a former partner in Santo Domingo, in relation to the sale of the 

 ships, the Count of Artois and the Annette (see Chapter II, p. 33). 

 Dacosta had been urged to apply to Mr. Formon's son-in-law, who appears 

 to have lived at Philadelphia, but was unable to obtain anything from the 

 Formon estate. The "Cash of Dacosta 299.44" possibly represented inter- 

 est on the mortgage which we have assumed was given to Audubon and 

 Rozier when Dacosta and his mining company came into possession of 

 "Mill Grove," September IS, 1806 (see Chapter XI, p. 148). 



