As I have had a great deal of trouble & anxiety in this business & had to find assistants in surveying with several days attendance, dinners &c for the whole party several journeys to Norris Town and also to Philada with the carriage to convey the money—postages &c.—I charge you 1½ per cent on the purchase money which I hope you will think not unreasonable as I believe it is under the charge of the land brokers in Philada & they have no trouble in the business compared to what I have had—I feel as if a great burthen was taken off my back now it is all finished. Out of this you will please to present Lucy with 38 dols which was the price the mare sold for—I expected one of you Gentn would have come to the Eastward before now it is I expect Mr Roziers turn this Spring I had one forged note returned at the Bank out of the money of Mr Williams & one dollar a counterfiet, but I had stipulated that he should take any faulty ones back. He paid about a third of the money in specie so that I was obliged to take the carriage with it. I took it to the Pennsylvania Bank & got an order on the Manhattan Bank in N York & have Mr Kinder's receipt for the order They have got a considerable quantity of ore out of the mine[174] some lead & some copper but I do not hear of any being yet sold. Present the kind regards of our family circle to my daughter, Mr Audubon, & my Grandson[175] who I hope are well I remain Gentn Yours truly Wm BAKEWELL PS Mr Kinder is of opinion that there ought to be a renunciation by Lucy of any claim of dower upon this estate to make the title good this may be sent on when you are coming this way [Addressed] MESSS AUDUBON & ROZIER Merchs Louisville Kentucky— [Endorsed] Recd. May 5th. 1810 Lucy Green Bakewell, Audubon's wife, was three years younger than her husband, having been born at Burton-on-Trent, England, in 1788. Her family were descended from John Bakewell of "Castle Donnington," in Leicestershire; Robert Bakewell, the geologist, who came to the naturalist's defense many years later, and who lived until 1843, was a nephew of her grandfather, Joseph Bakewell of Derby. Left an orphan at an early age, Lucy's father, William Bakewell, was brought up by an uncle, Thomas Woodhouse, a rich bachelor of Crith, Derbyshire, who eventually left him a fortune.