7. Accounts of William Bakewell, of "Fatland Ford," as protégé of his future son-in-law and as attorney or agent for Audubon & Rosier, giving certain exact indications of the naturalist's movements and personal relations, before and after finally leaving "Mill Grove." January 4, 1805-April 9, 1810. (For further reference, see Chapter VIII.)

Messrs Audubon & Rozier in a/c with Wm Bakewell Cr
1805
Jan 4 Cash for sundries 11 .25 March 18 Cash 5
12       do 1
18 Brother 150
1807
Apl 22 Cash Mr Rozier 66 Apl 1 Cash of Miller 150
Advertists in Philada & Norristown 7 do of Jackson 50
Cash pd M Fisher 40
do paid Vendreman 3
1808
Adv.ts & hand bills 3 .75 Jan 8 do of Longacre 50
Cash Mr Pears 14 .50 Apl 2 do of Longacre 50
May 3 Exps of Horses to Philada 4 .76 do 25 d 100
20 Sundries 18 .50 May 12 do formon 31 .84
June 8 Cash 3 .18 Dec 20 Cash of Longacre 30
17 Smith's work 5 .00
Advertiset 1
Oct 10 Exchange of Horse 10
Keep of Horses 23 weeks 42 .50
Decr 31 Cash pd Mr Pears 18 .92
1809
Advertisets & Vendue Exps 12 .82 Apl 18 Clennell 20
25 Bills payable to W. Thomas 607 .10 Sept 30 Kymar 22
Cash pd Mr Page for powr of Attorney 1 .37 Oct 27 d 47
13 Paid Attachment fees 9 .28 Nov 6 d 22 .50
Cash paid for tax 2 .91 Dec 23 do 10
25 mortes [?] & half taxes 7
Commission 7998 a 1½ per Cent 119 .97
1810
Jany 23 omitted Exps at Vendue 3 .77 Jan 23 Cash of Dacosta 299 .44
$1176 .91 Feb 13 do of Miller 20
Balle of Neckland 237 .32
Apl 3 Miller 8
9 do 6 .12½
$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 partner in Santo Domingo, in relation to the sale of the ships, the Count of Artois and the Annette (see Chapter II, p. 33). Dacosta had been urged to apply to Mr. Formon's son-in-law, who appears to have lived at Philadelphia, but was unable to obtain anything from the Formon estate. The "Cash of Dacosta 299.44" possibly represented interest on the mortgage which we have assumed was given to Audubon and Rozier when Dacosta and his mining company came into possession of "Mill Grove," September 15, 1806 (see Chapter XI, p. 148).