Transcription
"seul blanc, à quoi le dit Jean Baptiste ajoute aussi eu sauvages [sic] que cet [bonne] a raison puisque nous pourrions eu faire autant [des] qu'au [sic], a quoi le repondant lui dit que les sauvages étaient tous des barbares parcequ'ils ne connaissant pas le bon dieu, et [qu'au] en faut prendrait son fusil pour tuer son [Pere], qu'apres cette conversation, il a parti avec le dit Baptiste a Mme. Veuve Bourgeat qui lui a demandé en route ce qu'il avait parlé avec ses sauvages lui Baptiste n'entendant pas le sauvage, et lui dit ce dont il est parlé dans cette déclaration, que le Petit Pierre l'esclave au même maître a trouvé le déclarant le"
Translation
"only white, to which the said Jean Baptiste added also had the Indians [sic] that this [makes sense] since we could have done as much as we were [sic], to which the respondant told him that the Indians were all barbarians because they did not know the good God, and that [one must take his gun to kill his father] -- that after this conversation, he left with the said Baptiste to Ms. Widow Bourgeat, on the way he asked him what he had said with these Indians, Baptiste himself not having heard the Indian, and he said that of which he had spoken in this declaration, that Petit Pierre slave of the same master had found the declarant the"
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