Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)Herrick, Francis Hobart
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Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Herrick, Francis Hobart
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Arthur, Stanley Clisby, i, 314;
on the bird-life of the St. Francisville region, i, 315;
ii, 318;
on Audubon and West Feliciana, i, 322-323; 338.
"Articles of Association" of Audubon and Ferdinand Rozier,
description and reproduction of original of, i, 146-148;
ii, 344-349.
Ashburton, Lord, Baron (Alexander) Baring, ii, 242.
"Astur (_Falco_) Stanleii," i, 354, 417.
_See_ "Stanley Hawk."
_Athenæum_ (London), on Audubon, ii, 84-85, 140, 199-200;
advertisement of _The Birds of America_, ii, 201.
Aubinais, M., i, 55.
Audibon (or Audubon?), Pierre, in the American Revolution, i, 24.
Audubon, Anne, suit by, i, 28, 263.
Audubon, Catherine Françoise. _See_ Mme. Jean Louis Lissabé.
Audubon, Claude, and his family, i, 27.
Audubon, Dominica, suit by, i, 28, 263.
Audubon, Jean, his command at Yorktown and checkered career,
i, 24;
his parentage and father's family, i, 26-28;
birth and baptism, i, 27;
beginning of life at sea and capture at Louisburg, i, 28;
a prisoner in England, i, 28;
enters French Merchant marine and begins his voyages to New
Foundland, i, 29;
enlists in French navy and appears at Nantes, i, 30;
reënters merchant marine and begins voyages to Santo Domingo,
i, 30;
his ships and commands, i, 31;
his marriage, i, 32;
fight in _Le Comte d'Artois_ and capture by the English, i, 32;
prisoner in New York, and release, i, 32;
joins the American Revolution and commands a ship at the siege
of Yorktown, i, 34;
later commands in the United States and fight with a British
privateer, i, 34;
residence in the West Indies, i, 36;
travels in the United States and purchase of "Mill Grove,"
i, 36;
joins the National Guard at Les Cayes, i, 37;
epitome of Santo Domingo career, i, 37;
engagement with Coirond Brothers with interests at Les Cayes
and St. Louis, i, 38;
rapid rise to wealth as planter, sugar refiner, and slave
dealer, i, 39;
light cast by his dealings in slaves, i, 39; ii, 330-335;
his West Indian fortune and final settlement of estate,
i, 40-41, 268;
treatment of slaves and dependents, i, 41, 54;
Santo Domingo experience compared with that of a contemporary
planter at Jaquemel, i, 44-48;
birth of his son at Les Cayes, i, 52;
discovery of bill of his physician, i, 53; _see also_ i, 54,
and ii, 314-327;
his son, Fougère, and daughter, Muguet, taken to France, i, 57;
his reference to Audubon's mother, i, 59;
designation of his children in his wills, i, 63, ii, 360-362;
dual personality expressed by his son, i, 63;
joins National Guard at Nantes, i, 74;
possible refuge of his family during Revolution in France,
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