Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I
The grant was The Seigniory was afterward made over by the proratified by the King of France 18 th June 1753. nd May 1754 to Daniel Lienard Sieur de Beaujeu, who had a Seigniory adjoining immeprietor on 2 ;
diately North.]
TO HIS EXCELLENCY HECTOR THEOPHILE
CRAMAHE Esqr.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOUR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE PROVINCES OF QUEBEC &C. Respectfully Sheweth
--Louis Lienard de Beaujeu de Villemonde Chevalier de
St.
&C
Louis, covenanting for him & in his name Francois Joseph Cugnet Seigneur de St. Etienne, who has the honour most respectfully to Represent to your Excellency that there
was granted to him on the 20 July 1755 by
Mess rs de Vaudreuil and Bigot Governor General and Intendant, in compensation of his Military
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FRENCH SEIGNORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
Lake Champlain part of which is found by the new Line to be within the Province of New York, extending from the bounds of the Seigniory granted and conceded in 1744 to Guillaume Estebe proceeding Eastward to the River Senerindac the said River included, forming about four leagues front by as many in depth, together with the Isles & And as it is the Petitioner's interest to Islets which might happen to be in front of the said tract. preserve the said Seigniory which is the only property remaining to him after the losses he has experienced by the misfortunes of the War, he has recourse to your Excellency's Clemency and asks of him the favor to be so good as to interest himself in his behalf with His Excellency the Governour of New York who has been so good as to admit the Canadians to represent to him their Titles to the said grants, in the Gracious disposition in which he is to do them Justice, in order to obtain a longer delay than he has granted by his Proclamation of the 20 th August last to represent His Most Christian Majesty's Ratification of said Grant, copy of which he has ordered from his brother at Paris, and which he will only receive in the course of next year, that Ratification having been lost in the Brigantine les Deux Freres, Capt.