Transcription
"sur les dites cites il a dit que
Dans la [semaine des rameaux] Jean Baptiste Commandeur au Sr. Poedras avait appellé le dit déclarant passant devant sa cabanne, et lui avait demandé s'il voulait être du complot pour tuer les blancs a quoi le répondant lui dit que non, que Jean Baptiste l'avait ménacé que s'il en parlait il le tuerait, sans lui expliquer la manière du dit complot, et que la cite de Joseph Mina que lui a été lue est fausse, et qu'il a été à la messe le jour de Paques"
Dans la [semaine des rameaux] Jean Baptiste Commandeur au Sr. Poedras avait appellé le dit déclarant passant devant sa cabanne, et lui avait demandé s'il voulait être du complot pour tuer les blancs a quoi le répondant lui dit que non, que Jean Baptiste l'avait ménacé que s'il en parlait il le tuerait, sans lui expliquer la manière du dit complot, et que la cite de Joseph Mina que lui a été lue est fausse, et qu'il a été à la messe le jour de Paques"
Translation
"about the aforementioned statements he said that
During the [week before Easter/Palms week] Jean Baptiste commander to Sr. Poedras had called the said declarant passing in front of his cabin, and had asked him if he wanted to be in a conspiracy to kill the whites to which the respondent told him no, that Jean Baptiste had threatened him that if he talked about it he would kill him, without explaining to him [the manner] of the said conspiracy, and that the statement of Joseph Mina which was read to him is false, and that he was at the mass on Easter day"
During the [week before Easter/Palms week] Jean Baptiste commander to Sr. Poedras had called the said declarant passing in front of his cabin, and had asked him if he wanted to be in a conspiracy to kill the whites to which the respondent told him no, that Jean Baptiste had threatened him that if he talked about it he would kill him, without explaining to him [the manner] of the said conspiracy, and that the statement of Joseph Mina which was read to him is false, and that he was at the mass on Easter day"
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Declaration of Baptiste [A. Allain] (May 12, 1795)