Little is known of this short but touching episode in Mr.Gallatin's life.

The young lady was warmly attached to him, and the letter written to her mother asking forgiveness for her marriage is charmingly expressed and full of feeling.

They passed a few happy months at Friendship Hill, when suddenly she died.

From this time Mr.Gallatin lost all heart in the western venture, and his most earnest wish was to turn his back forever upon Fayette County.

In his suffering he would have returned to Geneva to Mademoiselle Pictet, could he have sold his Virginia lands.