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Bill Ingram Collection of Early Modern French Manuscript Business Documents

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.136
  • Collection
  • 1550 - 1652

Folder 1 contains two manuscript documents written in French in the 16th century.  One of the documents is from Jehan Hurault, the royal counselor and master of requests, regarding a dispute on the right to collect taxes on cloth sold in bulk and the "eighth" on wine sold retail in taverns in one section of the city of Paris.  The other has not been translated or transcribed.

Settlement of an Estate

Group of three manuscript documents concerning the settlement of an estate.

The letter is from M. Clarval (Clarvau?) to M. Gentilat, the toyal notary in Jeremie, inquiring about the effects of the late M. Ferron. The letter writer believed le pauvre diable had left him a portfolio containing 150 gold portugueses.

That letter is enclosed within the report of a process verbal about the extensive search made around M. Ferron's cabin with the assistance of several people, including "le negre libre conducteur des travaux." A few coins were found but not the portfolio.

The outermost document, enclosing two others, summarizes this result and accounts for the disposal of M. Ferron's possessions.

Alexandre Petion autograph document

Autograph document signed "Petion" as president, 6 April 1812, a laissez passer for Mr. Douglass, on government business, and noting his white horse "which it is forbidden for whomsoever to touch under any pretext."

Petion, Alexandre

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