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(45, 1787.)
fondeur jusques aux cotes, joignant dun costé au Sr Clermont Et de lautre costé au Nommé dorion Suivant les designations Portées aux contracts dacquisitions que ledt Sr Constituant en a faite de feu Sr jean lagrange vivant Negociant aux caskakias par contract passé devant Mr Labuxiere Notaire en datte du quatre juin mil Sept cent Soixante Cinq dont ledt Sr lagrange avoit acquis le tout de Mre francois forget duverger pretre et missionaire des missions Etrangeres grand vicaire de Mr Leveque de quebec faisant et agissant alors au Nom de Mr le Superieur des missions Etrangeres de paris par acte passé devant ledt Mr Labuxiere des [Illinois] le Cinq Novembre mil Sept cent Soixante trois, dont tous les dits titres y Enoncés ont êté remis audt Sr Constitué pour et en vertu diceux en prendre pocession au Nom dudt Srconstituant, les vendre comme dit est au meilleur avantage que ledt constitué trouvera Enfin plaider apeller, obtenir jugements aux fins de deguerpisse- ments Si personne ou personnes quelconques Sétoient a proprié les dits Biens, En un mot passer tous toutres [sic] de vente revetir lacquereur ou les acquereurs de toute proprieté au Nom dudt Constituant Et du produit des ventes En recevoir iceux deniers et den donner quittances ou en passer tous actes au profit des acquereurs, prometant ledt Sr constituant avoir tout pour agre- able ce que ledt Sr Constitué fera, donnant pouvoir de constituer un ou plusieurs procureurs Sans Besoin de ratiffication de la part dudt Sr constituant voulant que la presente vaille jusqua revoca- tion expresse tel laps de tems qui puisse Se couler, car ainsi prome- tant &c. obligeant &c voulant &c nonobstant &c. fait et passé a montreal Etude des Soussignéz lan mil Sept cent quatre vingt Cinq le dix neuf May avant midy, ces presentes delivreés En Bre- vet, et a mondt Sr constituant Signé ces presentes avec les Notaires Lecture faite Suivant Lordonnance-signé v jautard-Foucher-fr. LeGuay Notaires. et plus bas est Escrit Nous René ovide hertel Ecuyer Seigneur de Rouville L'un des juges de Sa Majesté En Sa Cour des playdoyers Communs, district de Montreal province de quebec &c. &c. Certiffions a tous quil appartiendra que MTs fr. LeGuay et antoine foucher qui ont Signé et delivré ces presentes
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one side M. Clermont's and on the other the land of the named Dorion according to the description contained in the contracts of acquisition, which the said constituter made therefor with the late M. Jean Lagrange, during his life merchant at Kaskaskia, by contract passed before M. Labuxiere, notary, under date of June 4, 1765, all of which the said M. Lagrange had acquired from M. François Forget Duverger, priest and missionary of the foreign missions and grand vicar of the Bishop of Quebec, acting at that time in the name of M. the Superior of the foreign missions of Paris, by act passed before the said M. Labuxiere, royal notary of the [Illinois] on November 5, 1763. All the said title deeds here mentioned have been delivered to the constituted attorney that he may by virtue thereof take possession in the name of the said con- stituter, and sell them, as said, to the best advantage, that the said constituted attorney shall find; finally that he may plead, appeal and obtain judgments for the purpose of ejectments, if any person or persons, whatever, has appropriated the said property, in a word to make all contracts of sale and to invest the purchaser or purchasers with full property rights in the name of the said constituter and to receive the money from the product of the sales and to give receipts therefor or to pass all acts to the profit of the purchasers; the said constituter promises to sanction all which the said constituted attor- ney shall do; and gives him power to constitute one or more attorneys without the need of ratification on the part of the said constituter; and he wishes that the present be valid until express revocation without regard to the time which may elapse; for thus promising etc. binding, etc. willing, etc. notwithstanding etc. Made and passed at Montreal in the office of the undersigned, the year 1785, the nineteenth of May before noon. These presents were delivered in brevet and the said M. constituter signed these presents with the notaries, after reading was made according to the ordinance. Signed, V. Jautard, Foucher, Fr. Le Guay, notaries. And below is written - We, René Ovide Hertel Esquire, Seigneur de Rouville, one of judges of His Majesty in his Court of Common Pleas, district of Montreal, province of Quebec etc. etc. certify to all whom it may concern that MM. Le Guay and Antoine Foucher,
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(46, 1787.)
Sont notaires En cette province que foy doit etre ajoutée aux actes quils passent tant en jugements que hors Certifions En outre que le papier timbré nest point En usage dans cette dite province En foy de quoy nous avons signé ces presentes et a icelles aposé le seau de nos armes ordinaires donné a Montreal En notre hotel le 19 May 1785 signé hertel de Rouville
Et plus Bas est Ecrit. je Soussigné augustin dubuque je trans- porte la presente procuration a Mr jean dumoulin Negociant pour lexercer Et la faire valoir En tous son contenu, de meme et ainsy que jaurois pû faire le metant et transmetant En mon lieu Et place aux Cahos le dix sept Novembre mil sept cent quatre vingt Cinq. signé A. Dubuc.
Et a linstant ladite procuration a Eté delivrée par moy gref- fier soussigné audt sr augustin Dubuc lesdt jour Et an.
Aug, Dubuque
Labuxiere
aujourdhuy vingt quatre avril mil sept Cent quatre vingt Sept est comparû au greffe de la jurisdiction des Cahos aux ilinois Mr huges huvard porteur des pieces Suivantes lequel En a requis Lenregistrement Suivant Et transcrit sur le present registres lui meme atendu que le greffier nentend pas la langue anglaise ainsy quil Suit
Know all men by these presents that I John Askin of Detroit Merchant have made ordain'd Constituted & appointed & by these presents do make ordain constitute & appoint in my place & stead put & depute Mr Hugh Heward of Detroit aforesaid my true & lawful attorney for me & in my Name & for my Use to ask Demand recover & receive of & from any person or persons indebted to me or any of my former Copartnerships .- giving & granting to my said attorney my sole & full power & authority to take pursue & follow such legal Courses for the Recovery receiv- ing & obtaining of the same as I myself might or could do were I personally present & upon receipt of the same Acquittances &
(47, 1787)
other sufficient Discharges for me & in my Name to sign Seal & deliver as also one or more Attorney or Attornies under him to
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who have signed and delivered these presents, are notaries in this province and that faith should be given to instruments which they draw up as well in judgments as elsewhere. We certify, furthermore, that the stamped paper is not in use in this province. In faith of which we have signed these presents and have thereon placed the seal of our customary coat of arms. Given at Montreal in our mansion, May 19, 1785. Signed, Hertel de Rouville.
And below is written: I, the undersigned Augustin Dubuque, transfer the present power of attorney to M. Jean Dumoulin, merchant, to carry out and put into effect in all its contents even as I could have done, using and transmitting it in my place. At Cahokia November 17, 1785. Signed A. Dubuque.
And now the said power of attorney has been delivered by me, the undersigned notary, to the said M. Dubuque the said day and year.
Aug. Dubuque
Labuxiere.
To-day, the twenty-fourth of April, 1787, there appeared at the office of the jurisdiction of Cahokia in the Illinois M. Hugh Heward, bearer of the following documents and he has required the registry thereof and has transcribed them in the present register himself, since the clerk does not understand the English language, as follows:
Ist piece.
Know all men by these presents that I, John Askins of Detroit, merchant, have made, ordained, constituted and appointed and by these presents do make, ordain, constitute and appoint and in my place and stead put and depute Mr. Hugh Heward of Detroit aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and for my use to ask, demand, recover and receive of and from any person or persons indebted to me or any of my former co-partners ; giving and granting to my said attorney my sole and full power and authority to take, pursue and follow such legal courses for the recovery, receiving and obtaining of the same as I myself might or could do, were I personally present; and upon receipt · of the same, acquittances and other sufficient discharges for me and in my name to sign, seal and deliver; as also one or more
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substitute or appoint & again at his pleasure to revoke & further to do & perform & execute for me & in my Name all singular Thing or Things which shall or may be necessary touching & concerning the premises as fully & entirely as I the said John Askin ought or could do in & about the same or as if more especial authority was required than is herein given - ratifying allowing & confirming whatever my said Attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in & about the Premises by virtue of these presents.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal the fifteenth Day of November in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty Six.
(signed) John Askin
Signed Sealed & delivered in presence of
John McCaslan Witness
Et a linstant Loriginal
William Park Remis a Mr hugues huvard
Hugh Heward Labuxiere
2nd.
Know all men by these presents that we John Askin George Leith & Angus Mackintosh of Detroit & Directors of the Miamis Company for ourselves & in behalf of the said Company have made ordain'd Constituted & appointed & by these Pres- ents do make ordain constitute & appoint & in our place & Stead put & depute Mr Hugh Heward of Detroit aforesaid our true & lawful Attorney for us & in behalf of the said Company in our names & for our use to Demand recover or receive of & from any person or persons indebted to the said Company
(48, 1787)
Giving & granting to our said Attorney our sole & full power & authority to take pursue & follow such legal Courses for the Recovery receiving & obtaining of the same as we ourselves might or could do were we personally present. And upon the Receipt of the same Acquittances & other sufficient Discharges for us & in our Names to sign Seal & deliver as also one or more Attorney or Attornies under him to substitute or appoint & again at his pleasure to revoke; & further to do & perform & execute for us
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attorney or attorneys under him to substitute or appoint and again at his pleasure to revoke; and further to do and perform and exe- cute for me and in my name all singular thing or things which shall or may be necessary touching and concerning the premises as fully and entirely as I, the said John Askin, ought or could do in and about the same or as if more special authority was required than is herein given; ratifying, allowing and confirming whatever my said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in and about the premises by virtue of these presents.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this fifteenth day of November, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.
Signed John Askin.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of John McCaslan, witness William Park.
And now the original was returned to M. Hugh Heward.
Hugh Heward. Labuxiere.
2nd.
Know all men by these presents that we, John Askin, George Leith and Angus Mackintosh of Detroit and directors of the Miamis Company, for ourselves and in behalf of the said company have made, ordained, constituted and appointed and by these presents do make, ordain, constitute and appoint, and in our place and stead put and depute Mr. Hugh Heward of Detroit, aforesaid, our true and lawful attorney for us and in behalf of the said company, in our names and for our use, to ask, demand, recover or receive of and from any person or persons indebted to the said company; giving and granting to our said attorney our sole and full power and authority to take, pursue and follow such legal courses for the recovery, receiving and obtaining of the same as we ourselves might or could do, were we personally present; and upon receipt of the same, acquittances and other sufficient discharges for us and in our names to sign, seal and deliver; as also one or more attorneys under him to substitute or appoint and again at his pleasure to revoke; and further to do and perform and execute for us and in our names all singular thing or things which shall or may be necessary, touching or
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& in our Names all singular Thing or Things which shall or may be necessary touching or concerning the premises as fully & entirely as we the said Directors ought or could do in & about the same or as if more especial Authority was required than is herein given. Ratifying allowing & confirming whatever our said Attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in & about the premises by Virtue of these Presents.
In Witness whereof we the said Directors in behalf of the said Company have hereunto set Hands & Seals the Twentieth Day of November in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty Six.
(signed) John Askin
Signed Sealed & delivered In presence
Angus Mackintosh
of John McCaslan Witness George Leith
Mont [illegible] Trimble a Linstant remis a Mr hugues huvard
Hugh Heward. Labuxiere.
Monsieur
comme vous Nignorés pas que je suis Charge par ordre de notre Cour de la succession de deffunt Mr augustin dubuque,
(49, 1788)
vous avez En main une negresse Et Son Enfant a luy appte je vous suplie de la remetre avec son Enfant a Mr aRondel avec qui je me suis arrangé pour la Conduire aux Cahos lieu auquel Elle doit Etre vendue pour le compte de la Sucession ce faisant la presente Lettre que je vous Envoy par Mr aRundel vous servira dample decharge par son recû dè ladite negrese Et son Enfant que vous ferés metre au bas de la presente Crainte de tous perils Et Evenements a votre decharge
jay Ecrit au mois Novembre dernier par le detroit Et Rivierre des ilinois a made votre soeur Et luy marque de vous Envoyer Sa procuration. ou a tout autre quelle voudra Choisir. si contre mon atente on me refusoit la Negresse Et son Enfant je vous previens que je la laisse sur les Risques perils Et fortunes de qui
1 John Askins was a merchant and fur-trader of Sandwich township, Ontario. He was serving as commissary at Michillimackinac in 1774. Later he served in the British army and was retired in 1812. He married into one of the old French families of Detroit .- Mich.
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concerning the premises as fully and entirely as we, the said directors, ought or could do in or about the same or as if more special authority was required than is herein given; ratifying, allowing and confirming whatever our said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in and about the premises by virtue of these presents.
In witness whereof we, the said directors, in behalf of the said company have hereunto set our hands and seals, the twentieth day of November, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of John Mc- Caslan, witness.
(Signed) John Askin.1
Mont[letters illegible] Trimble.
Angus Mackintosh. George Leith. Now it was returned to M.
Hugh Heward.
Hugh Heward.
Labuxiere.
Sir :-
As you are not ignorant that I am intrusted by order of the Court with the estate of the deceased M. Augustin Dubuque and you have in your possession a negress and her child belonging to him, I pray you to deliver her with her child to M. Arundel, with whom I have made arrangements to conduct her to Cahokia, where she is to be sold for the account of the estate. By doing this the present letter, which I am sending you, will serve you for a full discharge, through the receipt for the said negress and her child which you will cause to be written at the bottom of the pres- ent for fear of all perils and emergencies in regard to your dis- charge.
I have written in the month of November last via Detroit and the Illinois river to Madame your sister and instructed her to send to you her power of attorney or to any other whom she wishes to choose. If, contrary to my expectations, the negress and her child are refused me, I warn you that I leave her at
Pioneer and Hist. Col., xxv., 696. The Burton library of Detroit, Mich., contains many of his papers .- Thwaites, Descriptive List of MSS. Collections, 124.
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il apartiendra me reservant En ce Cas de faire mes poursuites pour et au profit de la Sucession contre qui javiseroy Bon Etre. cy joint la lettre original a nous Ecritte au sujet par Mr Cruzat.
Si jay differe a la faire transferer icy Le mauvais tems et les glaces En son Causes Et Sur ce que vous maviez dit que vous Lenveriez par une ocasion sure.
jay lhonneur detre Mr Votre serviteur signé Labuxiere le 10 mars 1788 a Mr Pratte Negt a Ste genevieve.
Lettre de Mr Cruzat Ecritte a Mr saucier presidant de La Cour. Mousieur
En concequance de la lettre que vous mavez Ecritte hier jay passé a Mr Prate a Ste genevieve lordre de tenir a la disposition de votre Cour Et de livrer a Sa demande la negresse qui est Ches luy appte a la sucession du feu augtin dubuque persuadé que je suis que les Creanciers de cette Rive suivront dans cette Succession les meme droits que les Creanciers qui sont sur la votre. jay lhonneur dEtre tres parfaitment Mr votre &c. &c. signé francois Cruzat St Louis le 14 9bre 1787 a Mr fr saucier Magistrat aux Cahos.
(50, 1788.)
Testament de james moore
aujourdhuy premier Septembre mil Sept cent quatre vingt huit est comparû le S' dorciere faisant pour et au Nom du Sr Gabriel Ceré absent porteur du testament de james moore Lequel nous en a pour et au nom dudt Sr Ceré Requis Lenregistrement ainsi quil Suit.
AU NOM DE DIEU AMEN moi James Moore de la Belle- fontaine du pays des ilinois Etant en parfaite Santé de Corp desprit et de memoire je rend grace a dieu de rapeller a la memoire la mortalité de mon corp Et Sachant que le Sort de tout homme est de mourir une fois je fais ordonne et constitue ce present mon testament et derniere intention cest a dire principalement et la pre- miere chose de toute je donne et recommande mon ame entre les
1 See decree of Court in this case, where the Spanish creditors were not given the same rights. Supra, P. 313.
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the risk, peril and fortune of him whom it shall concern, reserv- ing to myself, in that case, to make my suit for and to the profit of the estate against whom I shall think it to be right. Joined herewith is the original letter written us on the subject by M. Cruzat.
If I have deferred having her transferred, the bad weather and the ice are the causes thereof and also because you said that you would send her at the first safe opportunity.
I have the honor, sir, of being your servant. Signed La- buxiere, March 10, 1788. To M. Pratte, Merchant at Ste. Genevieve.
Letter of M. Cruzat written to M. Saucier, President of the Court.
In consequence of the letter that you have written me yester- day, I have given to M. Pratte at Ste. Genevieve order to hold at the disposition of your Court and to deliver on its demand the negress which is at his house belonging to the estate of the late Augustin Dubuque, since I am persuaded that the creditors of this bank will enjoy the same rights in this estate as the creditors who are on your bank etc.1 Signed François Cruzat, St. Louis, November 14, 1787. To François Saucier, Magistrate at Cahokia.
Testament of James Moore.
To-day the first of September, 1788, there appeared M. Dor- siere, acting for and in the name of M. Gabriel Cerré, absent, bearer of the testament of James Moore, and he has, for and in the name of the said M. Cerré, required the registry thereof, as follows:
In the name of God, amen, I, James Moore of Bellefontaine of the country of the Illinois, being in perfect health of body, soul and memory, render thanks to God for recalling to memory the mortality of my body; and knowing that the lot of every man is to die once, I make, ordain and constitute this present my last will and testament: that is to say, firstly and the first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and I recommend my body to the earth to be interred in Christian burial and the funeral to the direction of my testa- mentary executors, that at the general resurrection I may receive it
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mains de dieu tout puissant qui la donna Et je recommande mon corp a la terre pour etre Enterré dans la descence Chrétienne les funerailles a la direction de mes executeurs testamentaires qu'a la resurrection generale je ne le recoive Encore par le pouvoir Supreme de dieu Et quand aux biens terestres quil a plu a dieu de me donner dans cette vie je donne me demet et dispose desdits Biens de la maniere et forme Suivante.
Premierement je donne et legue a catherine Moore ma femme Bien aimé le tier de tous mes Biens tant meubles qu'immeubles aprés que mes debtes Seront tous legitement payées cest mon in- tention que je veux qu'on execute pendant Son veuvage quant aux Negres Bingo et judik cest mon intention quils retournent a Mr Tobias Barshares Si il veut les reprendre Et Sen rendre responsable a la Sucession de jean allison Si non les dits negres Seront vendus a lEncan ou vendûs particulierement Si les Exe- cuteurs testamentaires le jugent plus Convenables et leur pris assuré a lusage de la Sucession de feu jean allison : tant qua toutes les terres que je possede actuelement cest mon intention quelles Soient Egalement devisée Entre mes Cinq fils, Excepté que mon fils William aura deux parts. les terres defrichées Seront partagées aussi Bien que les terres En Bois Et En pagées a la discretion des executeurs Si aprés mentionnés. je donne Egalement a Mon fils William le Cheval apellé Pasbai, Et un livre apellé ou inti-
(51, 1788.)
tuté trajedies de tivay Et le premier volume du Spectateur, Et a mon fils jean le compagnon du jeune homme. et pour mon fils james les oeuvres dabraham courley Et a Henoch le Septieme volume du Spectateur Et a Milton le paradis perdû de milton Et les oeuvres de Mr Sauvage intitulé le vagabond; Et a ma fille marie le premier volume des oeuvres de Shakespear, avec une partie Egale de tous mes Biens meubles. et tous le restant de livres Sera Egalement partagé Entre tous, Et mon fils Wiliam aura mon violon. jordonne Et constitué pareillement Gabriel Cerré Shad- rick Bonde Et Thomas Biggs d'Etre mes Executeurs de ce pres- ent testament Et mes dernieres volontés. a qui je recommande de
1 It would have been a simple matter for the French clerk to have read for d'otway the de tivay of the text. Courley is certainly Cowley.
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again by the supreme power of God; and as to the temporal goods, which it has pleased God to give me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the said goods in the manner and form following:
Firstly, I give and bequeath to Catherine Moore, my well beloved wife, the third of all my property both personal and real, after my debts shall be all legitimately paid; it is my intent which I wish to be executed during her widowhood. As to the negroes Bingo and Judik, it is my intent that they return to M. Tobias Barshares, if he is willing to take them back and to hold himself responsible therefor to the estate of John Allison; if not, the said negroes shall be sold at auction or sold at private sale, if the testa- mentary executors judge it best, and their price assured to the use of the estate of the late John Allison; as to all the lands, which I possess at the present time, it is my intent that they be equally divided between my sons except that my son, William, shall have two parts. The cleared lands shall be divided as well as those in woods and in farm-yard at the discretion of the executors here- after mentioned. I give equally to my son, William, the horse called Pasbai and a book called or entitled "Tragedies of Otway"1 and the first volume of the "Spectator"; and to my son, John, "The Companion of the Young Man"; and to my son, James, the works of Abraham Cowley; and to Henoch, the seventh volume of the "Spectator"; and to Milton, " The Paradise Lost" of Milton and the works of M. Savage entitled "The Vagabond"; and to my daughter Mary, the first volume of the works of Shakespeare with an equal part of all my personal goods; and all the remaining books shall be equally divided among all; my son, William, shall have my violin. I ordain and constitute likewise Gabriel Cerré, Shadrach Bond and Thomas Biggs to be my executors of this present last will and testament, to whom I recommend that they leave all my property in the hands of my wife during her widowhood until the boys are of age; and that at that time each of them, as they come of age, withdraw his share; but if there appears to the testamentary executors that there is the least appearance of waste in the property, it is my intent that
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