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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849. 262 words

Having seen the suit of the King's Attorney General demanding for reasons therein contained, that We would be pleased to permit him to cause to be summoned the said Sieurs above mentioned to be and appear before us at the Castle St Louis of Quebec within the delays of the ordonnance to direct and order, that they having failed to have cultivated & improved the lands granted to them in Seigniory and to have placed and settled inhabitants thereon according to the terms of the Arrets of the King's Council of State of sixth July 1711. and fifteenth of March 1732 and within the time specified therein, they shall remain and be reunited to His Majesty's Domain in this country ;

of the said Defend ts present by which .

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Sieur Pean states that he could not find any farmer,

up to this time, to place on his Seigniory, that if he should find any he is ready to furnish them with axes and picks, for clearing, with one year's provisions that he will continue to look for them that ;

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Another answer he will do his best to find some and that he intends to form a demesne there. of Sieur Estebe appearing as above, by which he says that Sieur St. Vincent is actually detached as .

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Commander of the post of Ouyatanous, that he already made several grants on his Seigniory, namely to a habitant of the Cote de Beaupre ; that the said Sieur St. Vincent told him before Ids departure