Transcription
"sauvagesses de la nation [Toninca] et àpres avoir fait son serment par Dieu & la Ste Croix de dire la vérité su la cite, et sur ce qu'on lui demandera, il a dit que
Les deux cité sont fausse &, que le déclarant n'a jamais parlé aux sauvagesses de cela si non qu'ils étaient libres, & que s'était les gens d'un [bateau] qui montant que lui avait dit cela.
a déclaré n'avoir plus rien à dire qu'il est agé de soixante cinq ans, et apres avoir entendu sa déclaration, il a trouvée conforme, & ne sachant signer l'avons fait avec l'assesseur, & les témoins d'assistance de tout quoi donnons foi
Signé Duparc Vahamonde G Serrano J B Beauvais J Jarreau P Hubert"
Les deux cité sont fausse &, que le déclarant n'a jamais parlé aux sauvagesses de cela si non qu'ils étaient libres, & que s'était les gens d'un [bateau] qui montant que lui avait dit cela.
a déclaré n'avoir plus rien à dire qu'il est agé de soixante cinq ans, et apres avoir entendu sa déclaration, il a trouvée conforme, & ne sachant signer l'avons fait avec l'assesseur, & les témoins d'assistance de tout quoi donnons foi
Signé Duparc Vahamonde G Serrano J B Beauvais J Jarreau P Hubert"
Translation
"Indian women of the Tunica nation and after having made his oath to God and the Holy Cross to say the truth of the matter, and about which we will ask him, he said that
The two mentioned are false and that the declarant has never spoken to the Indian women about this [if not that they were free] and that it was the people in a [boat] [sic] that had told him that.
He declared to have nothing more to say that he is sixty-five years old, and after having listened to his declaration, he found it consistent, and not knowing how to sign we have done it with the assessor and the attending witnesses to all which we give authority
Signed Duparc Vahamonde G Serrano J B Beauvais J Jarreau P Hubert"
The two mentioned are false and that the declarant has never spoken to the Indian women about this [if not that they were free] and that it was the people in a [boat] [sic] that had told him that.
He declared to have nothing more to say that he is sixty-five years old, and after having listened to his declaration, he found it consistent, and not knowing how to sign we have done it with the assessor and the attending witnesses to all which we give authority
Signed Duparc Vahamonde G Serrano J B Beauvais J Jarreau P Hubert"
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