[205] The first steamboat on the Ohio was the _Orleans_, a vessel of 200-400 tons, built at Pittsburgh in the summer and fall of 1811, by Robert Fulton and Robert M. Livingston; her first voyage, when she touched at Henderson, was signalized, as it seemed to many, by the great earthquakes of that year. The first Kentucky steamer was built at Henderson in 1817, the same year that a small vessel was constructed by Samuel Bowen and J. J. Audubon at the same place (see Chapter XVI). Compare Edmund L. Starling, _History of Henderson County, Kentucky_ (Bibl. No. 186). [206] Known first as Redbank or Redbanks, to distinguish it from Yellowbank, or Owensboro, on a similar bend farther upstream; called also Hendersonville, but this term had no official standing. The population of Henderson in 1810 is given as 159, and that of the entire county, then larger than at present, as 5,000. See Starling, _op. cit._ [207] See Vol. I, p. 235. [208] See translations from copies of the originals, in French, in possession of the Louisiana Historical Society, New Orleans, in Appendix I, Document No. 21. [209] Boat for the exchange of prisoners of war. [210] Compare Note, Vol. I, p. 152. [211] See Note, Vol. I, p. 148. [212] For this characterization of Ferdinand Rozier I am indebted mainly to an account by his son, Firman A. Rozier, at one time mayor of Ste. Geneviève and member of the State Legislature; see his _History of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley_ (Bibl. No. 202) (St. Louis, 1890). [213] For a photograph of the old Rozier store at Ste. Geneviève, as well as for the likeness of Rozier, made in 1862, when he was in his eighty-fifth year, I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Ruthven Deane, who received them from a son of Ferdinand, Felix Rozier, in November, 1905, when the latter had attained his eighty-third year. [214] While living at Henderson the Audubons lost their two daughters, Rosa and Lucy, both of whom died when very young. [215] "The Earthquake," _Ornithological Biography_ (Bibl. No. 2) vol. i, p. 280. [216] This journey was probably made in February, though the date is given as April (see Maria R. Audubon, _Audubon and his Journals_, vol. i, p. 44), if the legends of four drawings of this time are to be trusted; all are labeled Pennsylvania, and bear the following dates: Swamp Sparrow, March, 1812; Spotted Sandpiper, April 22, 1812; White-throated Sparrow, April 24, 1812; and Whippoorwill, May 7, 1812.