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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. 261 words

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April 1745, to the same person of an additional Tract in

on Lake Champlain, by five in depth, extending from the North bounds of the former grant, subject to the same burthens and conditions ; and a Deed of Sale of the entire " Seigniory Hocquart" to M. Michel Chartier, Seigneur of Lotbiniere &c for the sum of Nine Thousand livres bearing date Paris 7 th April. 1763 ] Seigniory, three leagues in front

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SITUATION OF THE SEIGNIORY OF ALAINVILLE;

I, undersigned, affirm

and declare on oath that the Seigniory of Alainville, four leagues and more

in front by five leagues in depth to the West, commences at La Pointe des habitans (one league and a

half or thereabouts, above the Fort at Pointe a la Chevelure, and on the same side of the River) and that it terminates at Pointe du Bivac [Bivouac point] of M. de Contrecour's

above l'Isle au Mouton near the entrance of the Lake St. Sacrement to me in virtue of the Grant

the year

;

Camp; the lower point

that the said Seigniory belongs

which the Marquis de Vaudreuil made to me dated 1

One thousand seven hundred & fifty Eight

;

th

November of

that this deed of Concession was left, in the

original by me in July 1764 with

M Pownall Secretary of the Board of Trade and the Colonies to be

registered in said Office; that S

Henry Guinaud, my agent in London informed me by letter that the my behalf & by me at the said office had