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JOSEPH S. DE FONTAINE - DOCUMENT SIGNED - HFSID 43762

. Partly printed manuscript document signed with de LaFontaine's mark: "X". 1 page, 7¼x12¼. Montreal, Lower Canada, April 16, 1802. In French, with translation.

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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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