JOSEPH S. DE FONTAINE - DOCUMENT SIGNED - HFSID 43762
Price: $750.00
JOSEPH SUPRENANT de LAFONTAINE.
Partly printed manuscript document signed with de LaFontaine's mark: "X". 1 page, 7¼x12¼.
Montreal, Lower Canada, April 16, 1802. In French, with translation. This is a contract
hiring de LaFontaine for a canoe voyage from Montreal to Michilimakinac and back for
"Messrs. Parker Gerard Ogilvy &c". He was to receive a fee of "one hundred and eighty livres
or shilling ancient currency of this province", with an advance of six piastres and the
equipment that he needed for the voyage. de LaFontaine was probably illiterate and thus
could only make his mark on this contract. His destination, Michilimakinac, was based in
Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It was founded in 1670 and was the most important outpost in
the French Canadian fur trade. England occupied it from 1761 to 1796, when it passed into
the control of the United States. "Messrs. Parker Gerard Ogilvy &c" were probably the
principals in Parker-Gerard-Ogilvy, one of many companies challenging the North West
Company and the Hudson's Bay Company's dominance in the Canadian fur trade
around the 1800s. Lightly toned and creased. Light show through of docket on verso at left
margin. Nicked at lower and left blank edges. Folded thrice and unfolded. Otherwise in fine
condition.
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