The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-11-20
TRANSLATION.

Deed of land at Detroit, OF which one
half belongs to the widow of the late
Lamotte Cadillac, made at Marseilles
by Joseph de Lamotte Cadillac to Mr..
Bernard Maichens.
In the name of God, amen On the
twenty seventh day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and thirty.eight, of the reign
of the very Christian and very august
prince, Louis the Fifteenth, by name,
by the grace of God King of France
and Navarro, Count of Provence; before
us. royal notary at Marseilles there
being present Mr.. Joseph de Lamotte
Cadillac, of the city of Castelsarrasy,
province of Languedoc, in the judicial
jurisdiction Of Toulouse, who, as we'll in
his own proper name, as in virtue of
special power Of attorney from Madame
Marie Theresa Guion, his mother, and
from the Honorable Francis de La
motte Cadillac, his brother. by act
passed before Mr.. Alum, royal notary of
the city of Castelsarrasy, the eleventh
day of July, last, which act in the
original was present before us by said
Monsieur Joseph de Lamotte Cadillac,
who certified to its authenticity in our
presence, aud in the presence of the
undersigned witnesses in order to re-
main annexed to the minutes of these
presents. The said Madame, and said
gentlemen, her sons, in quality of heirs
and successors of the deceased, An.
tome de Lamotte Cadillac, her husband,
and the father Of her said surviving
children, Counsellor of the King and
formerly Governor of the said city of
Castlesarrasy, of the free will of said
Joseph de Lamotte Cadillac, and in
presence of the persons before named in
their official characters by these
presents were sold and wholly given up,
purely and simply, without any reserva.
tion tacit or expressed to Mr.. Bernard
Maichens, merchant resident at Mar
settles, now present and asserting and
agreeing thereto that is to say, all the
property generally left by the said de-
ceased Antoine de Lamotte Cadillac,
and which the said Madame and her
said sons, in consequence of his death,
possess at Detroit upon Lake Erie in
North America, consisting of cleared
lands, 40 arpents in depth, with the
buildings and animal stock together
in title and enjoyment; with the right
of fishing aud hunting granted, on the
10Th day of May, A. D. 1922, by the
Council of State of His Majesty, for the
benefit of said deceased with the right
of quit rents and arrearages of such
rents in stock and other movable prop
erty, which appertaiDs thereto, and in
such quality and consistence as belongs
thereto, in said Detroit. Including il
this sale all that may belong to said
vendors in regard to said lands, fruits
farms, leases, buildings, stock, arrearage'
and rents, wherever they may appear
with authority in the purchaser to ren
der accounts thereof to Mr.. Merrill, the
attorney of the vendors, duly appointed
at Quebec, and to such other persons al
they shall appoint, and Of such sums a
said attorney shall require in sucl
capacity, of the rents, leases and othel
revenues of said property ; making b.
virtue of sale, and by the names anC
qualities aforesaid, cessions and transfers
of all their rights and actions to saic
purchaser, hereby acct tpting and putting
him in their place and stead.
Which sale and concession are mad
: for the price and sum of $4,000 livres
on account of which the said Joseph d.
Lamotte Cadillac, by the name ant
qualities aforesaid, acknowledges to hav,
received a short time ago, from said Mr.
Maichens, the sum of $4,000 livres, il
current money as the parties have de
clared, and which said $4,000 livres th
vendors hereby release. And the saic
purchaser obligates himself and prom
. ises to pay the remaining $4,000 livre
of said purchase price in one year from
this day, to be carried, counted and de
livered in said city Of Castelsarrasy a
the risk and expense of said purchaser
and in conformity with said attorney
ship, as follows, that is to say, 5000
= livres to be paid to the said MADAME
Guion, 5000 livres to the said Francis
de Lamotte Cadillac, and the 1000 re
, naming to the said Joseph de Lamott'
Cadillac, to whom the said 1000 livre,
only shall be paid and in case tn,
p, vendors shall direct, the whole shall b,
paid in the current ringing specie coin
without any kind of paper money o
whatever nature it may be, even If i
+, be made current by virtue of any
I. proclamation of the King.
1t is understood and agreed. ed..expressly
that the above named property, with tn,
said rights, arrearages and other details
sold as above generally and without re
serve, the said Joseph de Lamotte Ca
dillac, vendor as aforesaid, by said names
( and qualities, does hereby transfer ant
7 deliver to said Maichens, the purchases
. as aforesaid, ceding and remitting tn,
same to him, with all rights appertaining
7 thereto, of whatever nature the sam,
! may be, even if their value, on accoun
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