Done at the Castle St. Louis of Quebec the tenth May 1741. Signed Beauharnois & Hocquart Countersigned and Sealed. For Copy. Hocquart. ;

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1 Now the town of Champlain, Clinton Co. 2 Qu.? Town of Alburg, Vt. 3 Now the town of Essex and greater part Of the town of Wellsborough, Essex county, N. Y. 4 Now the town of Chazy, Clinton County, N. Y.

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FRENCH SEIGNIORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

GRANT OF THE SEIGNIORY BEDOU, ON THE RIVER CHAZY. [

NOV. 1752.

From the same. ]

The Marquis Duquesne fyc. Francis Bigot fyc.

On the Petition to us presented by Sieur Bedou, Councellor in the Superior Council of Quebec to the effect that

We would be pleased to grant him a Tract two leagues or two leagues and a half front

by three leagues in depth along the River Chambly and Lake Champlain with the River Chazy included therein, the front of said Tract to extend from the bounds of the Seigniory recently conceded to Sieur de Beaujeau to a league from the mouth of the River Chazy on the South side, with the part of the River Chazy which will be found within the extent of said land which will be bounded by a line North and South passing by the mouth of said River Chazy, by three leagues in depth, and, besides, all the said land which will be found beyond the said line on the River Chambly and Lake Champlain and Isle a la Mothe that is opposite in the said Lake, which Tract was heretofore granted to the late M. Pean in his life time Major of Quebec and reunited to the Kings Domain by an Ordinance of Mess" de Beauharnois & Hocquart dated 10. May 1741. All by tenure of Fief and Seigniory with Right of High, Middle & low Justice, rights of Hunting, Fishing and the Indian trade as We in virtue of the power granted to Us by His Majesty have well in front of, as within said Tract. given granted and conceded to said Sieur Bedou the said Tract of land as and in the manner it is above described, which shall be bounded on the North and South by two lines drawn East & West in front by the River Chambly and Lake Champlain, and in depth three leagues joining the nonconceded lands by a line drawn North & South parallel to that which shall pass the mouth of the River Chazy and, besides, the Island called a la Mothe which is opposite the said Tract in Lake Champlain, to possess it by himself his heirs and assigns in perpetuity and for ever by the tenure of Fief & Seigniory with High Middle and Low Justice, with privileges of Fishing, Hunting and the Indian Trade throughout the whole extent of said Tract, on condition of rendering Fealty & Hommage at the Castle of St Louis of Quebec from which he will hold with the usual duties and charges according to the custom of Paris followed in this Country, of preserving & causing to be preserved by his Tenants the Oak timber fit for buildiug King's Ships, of giving His Majesty all Mines Minerals &c. [The remainder of this Patent is in terms similar to that already inserted p. 351.