CHRONOLOGY. 
1780 
May 4. John James La Forest Audubon 
was born at Mandeville, Louisiana. 
(Paucity of dates and conflicting state- 
ments make it impossible to insert dates 
to show when the family moved to St. 
Domingo, and thence to France. ) 
1797 (2) 
Returned to America from France. Here 
followed life at Mill Grove Farm, near 
Philadelphia. 
1805 or 6 
Again in France for about two years. 
Studied under David, the artist. Then 
returned to America. 
1808 
April 8. Married Lucy Bakewell, and 
journeyed to Louisville, Kentucky, to 
engage in business with one Rozier. 
1810 
March. First met Wilson, the ornitholo- 
gist. 
