LIEUT. AUDUBON, REVOLUTIONIST 87 
she should annually pay to him, according to the act of July 
15, 1788, as given by Domergue, notary at Les Cayes. You 
will satisfy them with the state of the dwelling house in the 
plain of Jacob, opposite Ile 4 Vaches. 
This was sold by the said act to the said citizeness Fauveau 
and to her late husband by the said constituents, to whom he 
will report regularly on the state of affairs, at least twice in 
the year.... 
[Signed at Nantes] J. Royer [one of 
the undersigned notaries ] 
Lieutenant Jean Audubon died at Nantes,’® when on 
a visit to that city, on February 19, 1818, at the age of 
seventy-four, “regretted most deservedly,” said his son, 
“on account of his simplicity, truth, and perfect sense 
of honesty’; “his manners,” he continues, ““were those of 
a most polished gentleman . . . and his natural under- 
chants at Nantes, whose business interests in Santo Domingo were en- 
trusted to Jean Audubon’s hands in 1783 (see Chapter III, p. 38). 
%The following extract from the registry of deaths at Nantes, which 
is here given in translation, indicates that Lieutenant Audubon passed 
away suddenly, since his death did not occur in his own apartments (for 
original see Appendix I, Document No. 19): 
“In the year 1818, on the 19th day of February, at eleven o'clock 
in the morning, in the presence of the undersigned, deputies and officers 
of the civil service, delegates of Monsieur the Mayor of Nantes, have 
appeared the Messrs. Gabriel Loyen du Puigaudeau, gentleman of leisure, 
son-in-law of the deceased, residing hereafter at Couéron, and Francis 
Guillet, grocer, living on the Quai de la Fosse, of legal age, who have 
certified in our presence that on this day, at six o’clock in the morning, 
Jean Audubon, retired ship-captain, pensioner of the State, born at Les 
Sables d’Olonne, department of La Vendée, husband of Anne Moinet, 
died in the house of Mlle. Berthier, in the Chaussée de le Madeleine, No. 
24, 4th Canton. 
“The witnesses have signed with us the present act, after it was 
read to them. The deceased was 74 years of age.” 
{ GasrreL Loven pu PuicaupEav, 
“Signed in the register: { GuitteT, and JosEPH DE LA 
| TuttayeE, deputy.” 
The Audubons and Du Puigaudeaus were probably buried in one of 
the large cemeteries at Nantes, since no trace of their graves has been 
found at Couéron by M. Lavigne. 
