■ '/lrr-f~0W**~Gf. t/ifiMmam 11 llwc The title page of one of the three part-books comprising Micah Hawkins' Amusement, a collection of thirty-seven trio arrangements for flute, clarinet, and viola. The trios were intended to be enjoyed by Hawkins and two musical friends, each of whose names appears on his respective part-book: Alexander Ming for the clarinet, John McKay the flute, and Hawkins the viola, the new-york historical society. his song would instantly have arisen. With the usual contemporary disregard for copyright restrictions, the song was promptly brought out (pirated) by the enterprising New York music publisher William Dubois, and it is undoubtedly from his edition that Hawkins made his trio arrangement of this current song hit.45 On July 29, 1825, when he was forty-eight years old, just eight months after The Saw-Mill was produced, Micah Hawkins died suddenly of typhus.46 From all indications he was in a phase of developing 45 Sheet music at Music Division, Buffalo and Erie County Library, Buffalo, New York. 46The New-York Evening Post obituary notice (July 29, 1825) attributed Hawkins' death to "billious remittent fever"