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Show I La Salle's Will Has Been Found. Rsprsssntatlva Portsr ef Nsv. York Unsarths tbs Documsnt, Niagara Kails. N. V. Ilepresentatlve Peter A. Porter haa found the will of B Hleur do I .a Halle, Ihe French discoverer, dis-coverer, who launched Ihe Aral vessel which anllcd the great Inkea. The document la undoubtedly Ihe first will made by a while muu disposing of property In the new world. Thla Is a translation of the will: Hobert Cavalier, Ksuulio, Blcur de tjt Halle, seigneur and gouvvnur of Kurt Kronlenac In New France considering con-sidering Ihe great duiiKera and continual con-tinual perils In which Ihe vuyagea I undertake ciikuku '. and wishing tn acknowledge aa much as I am able Ihe great obligations which I uwo lo M Francois Plot, my cousin, for the signal services which he bus rendered to uie In my most pressing necessities, and because II Is Ihroutih his assistance assist-ance thut I have preserved to this time Fort Frontenac atiilnst Iho efforts ef-forts which were made to deprive me of It, I have given, granted, und transferred, trans-ferred, and give, grant, and transfer these preseuts to the said M. I'lel In case of my death. The seigniory and properly of the ground and limits of the said Fort Frontenac and lla depending hinds and all my rights In the country of Ihe Mlamls. Illinois and others to the south, together wllh the establishment which Is In the country of the Mlamls. Ml-amls. In the condition which ll shall be at the time of my death, of the Niagara and all the oihere which I may have founded there, together with all barges, boats and great boats, movable mov-able and immovables, rights and privileges, privi-leges, rents, lands, buildings and olher things belonging to me which shall be found there: willing these presents, for my testament and declaration In the manner In which I ought to make It, such being my lust will as above, written by my hand and signed by my hand after having read It and aguln resd II. Msdo al Montreal the eleventh day of August, mm. CAVAI.IKR DE I.A flAT.I.E. |
