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. 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