Dufycharest captured by the English in 1756 and to be able also to shew that it was impossible for him to have kept fire & light there at the time, and as prescribed by said Deed of Concession, because being a Military Man he left in the same year 1756 to command a Post in the Upper Country by the orders of the Governor General, an absence which has rendered him not only unable to improve and establish his said Seigniory and to have fire and light kept there Services, the Concession of a Seigniory, situated on

;

according to the terms of his title but even to

solicit

the Intendant to apply to the Court of France

for Copy of the Ratification of his Grant the original of which

had been lost ; and he has not been

able since the Definitive Treaty of Peace, to establish said Seigniory, it being notorious that he has not

returned to this Province until the month of August 1769.

And in fine he could not send the title

of his Concession to New York to be there enregistered since his arrival in this Province, on account of the considerable expense that Envoy would have occasioned him. He dares flatter himself that you will be favorable to him and he will not cease to offer his prayers to Heaven for your Excellency's preservation

Quebec 15* Octobr 1771.

DEED OF SALE OF THE SEIGNIORY OF LAMANAUDIERE ON THE EAST SIDE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN, 27 th [