_1809_ Advertisets & Vendue Exps 12.82 Apl 18 Clennell 20 25 Bills payable to W. Apl 18 Clennell 20 Thomas 607.10 Sept 30 Kymar 22 Cash pd Mr Page for Nov 6 d 22.50 powr of Attorney 1.37 Dec 23 do 10 13 Paid Attachment fees 9.28 Cash paid for tax 2.91 _1810 25 mortes [?] & half taxes 7 Feb 13 do of Miller 20 ------ Balle of Commission 7998 a 1½ per Cent 119.97 Neckland 237.32 ------ Apl 3 Miller 8 Jany 23 omitted Exps at Vendue 3.77 9 do 6.12½ ------ --------- $1176.91 $1159.22½ NOTE BY THE AUTHOR. This record proves that Audubon upon his first return to France from the United States, must have left "Mill Grove" on the 12th of January, 1805, or not more than a day later; three days were required to walk to New York, which could not have been reached later than the 15th, and probably as many more were needed for a letter to go to "Fatland Ford." He probably sailed for Nantes shortly before January 18, the day when William Bakewell recorded that he had sent his "brother," Benjamin Bakewell, commission merchant in New York, $150; this was undoubtedly in payment of the loan which the brother in New York had made to young Audubon for his passage to France. The next item, of April 22, 1807, was for money advanced to Ferdinand Rozier, probably when he was acting as clerk to Laurence Huron, in Philadelphia; "advertisements 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 Audubon'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. Bakewell in their disastrous mill experiment at Henderson, Kentucky. The bill 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 interest collected on an unsettled claim of Lieutenant Audubon against Mr. Formon, a former