1797 (?)
Returned to America from France. Here followed life at Mill Grove Farm, near Philadelphia.
1805 or 6
Again in France for about two years. Studied under David, the artist. Then returned to America.
1808
April 8. Married Lucy Bakewell, and journeyed to Louisville, Kentucky, to engage in business with one Rozier.
1810
March. First met Wilson, the ornithologist.
1812
Dissolved partnership with Rozier.
1808-1819
Various business ventures in Louisville, Hendersonville, and St. Geneviève, Kentucky, again at Hendersonville, thence again to Louisville.
Abandoned business career. Became taxidermist in Cincinnati.
1820
Left Cincinnati. Began to form definite plans for the publication of his drawings. Returned to New Orleans.
1822
Went to Natchez by steamer. Gunpowder ruined two hundred of his drawings on this trip. Obtained position of Drawing-master in the college at Washington, Mississippi. At the close of this year took his first lessons in oils.