The meeting at Philadelphia seems to have been the occasion for the dissolution of a partnership in which Gallatin had placed his money, and Serre his enthusiasm and personal charm.

A settlement was made; Serre giving his note to Gallatin for the sum of six hundred dollars,--one half of their joint expenses for three years,--an obligation which was repaid more than half a century later by his sister.

Serre then joined a fellow-countryman and went to Jamaica, where he died in 1784.

At Philadelphia Gallatin and Savary lodged in a house kept by one Mary Lynn.

Pelatiah Webster, the political economist, who owned the house, was also a boarder.