[172] For this and the letter of Thomas Bakewell's uncle, William Bakewell, which follows later, I am indebted to Mr. Tom J. Rozier; see [Note, Vol. I, p. 133], and for accompanying "Account Current" of Audubon & Rozier, [Appendix I, Document No. 11].
[173] See [Note, Vol. I, p. 196].
[174] The lead mine at "Mill Grove," which with the remaining Audubon and Rozier interests in the farm had been taken over by Dacosta's company in September, 1806. The failure of Dacosta followed in about a year after the date of this letter.
[175] Victor Gifford Audubon, who was then nine months old.
[176] See [Vol. I, p. 153].
[177] William Bakewell died at Philadelphia on March 6, of the same year, after suffering from the effects of a sunstroke, and was, eventually, buried at "Fatland Ford;" in 1822 his farm, originally of 800 acres, passed into the hands of Dr. William Wetherill. See [Note, Vol. I, p. 99], and W. G. Bakewell, Bakewell-Page-Campbell ([Bibl. No. 200]).
[178] In a letter to Alexander Lawson, written from Pittsburgh, on February 22, 1810; see Elliott Coues, "Private Letters of Wilson, Ord, and Bonaparte," Penn Monthly, vol. x, pp. 443-455 (Philadelphia, 1879).
[179] See Elliott Coues, loc. cit.
[180] Letter to Alexander Lawson, dated at Lexington, April 4, 1810; see Grosart, Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson, vol. i, p. 189.
[181] See Grosart, Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson, vol. i, p. xxiv.