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Expense Account

(September 29, 1706)

Cadillac, Lamothe in: Michigan Historical
Collections, XXXIII, pp. 296-297.

pp. 296, 297.

 


(page 296)

have taken, and the trust you have reposed in me; I will give you a blanket, a shirt of Mitasse, some powder, bullets and tobacco to spur you on to use diligence in returning; and I shall have regard to you according to your conduct up there, of which Father Marais will send me word; and it rests with you alone to have proofs of my favor when you return with the others.

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AMOUNTS EXPENDED FOR THE KING'S SERVICE BY CADILLAC.

Endorsed-29th Sept., 1706.

Statement of sums spent for the King's service by Monsieur de la Mothe in order to prevent the Miamis, Pepitakokia and Onyatonuns from going to war against the Outavois this winter, and to prevent the tribe of the Pehaugnissa from going to attack the Iroquois.

Three belts at 20#1 each
Two hundred livres of powder at 4# per #
Six guns with their cases at 36# each
Thirty livres of tobacco at 40s. per livre
Fifteen ounces of vermillion- total

 

#60:
800:
216:
60:
46:

 

Given to Quarante Sols, Chief of the Hurons, sent with
   Mons. Boucherville to support the orders of Mons. de la

 

 

 

   de la Mothe; ten livres of powder at 4# per livre
A fine shirt with ruffles
A red coat ornamented with imitation gold lace
1 linen bag to hold powder
A barrel of brandy holding 4 pots at 20# a pot

 

40:
12:
45:
1:
80:

 

Given to Pakoumakoüá, chief of the Miamis, to go with
   Mons. de Boucherville to support the orders of Mons.

 

 

 

   de la Mothe; ten livres of powder at 4# per livre
Five livres of bullets at 40s. per #
Two linen bags for the bullets and powder, at 20s. each

 

40:
10:
2:

 

Given to Mons. de Boucherville for his journey with four
   soldiers, to go and carry the orders of the M. de la

 

 

 

   Mothe; 30 livres of powder at 4 francs per #
Sixty livres of lead at forty sols per #

 

120:
120:

 

(page 297)

 

 

 

Four roe-buck skins for making saddles for the soldiers

 

 

 

   at 50s. each; total
Two livres of tobacco at forty sols a #
Forty gun-flints
One boat- total one hundred livres
One sail made of six ells of Mélis* cloth for
Tackle for the sail
Three linen bags to hold powder, bullets and lead
A copper-kettle weighing five livres at six frances per #
One large axe
1# of tobacco at 40s
1 barrel to hold powder for their journey
One sponge

 

#10:
4:
2:
100:
30:
1:
3:
30:
10:
2:
2:
5:

 

Given to Pipouhet, a Loup Indian, who is going with M.
   Boucherville to serve as interpreter, one gun and its

 

 

 

   case, value 36 Livres
10 livres of powder at four france per #
A bag to hold the said powder

 

36:
40:
1:

 

 

One ounce of vermilion

 

  3:

2s.: 6d.:

 

Total

 

#1,931:

2s.: 6d.:

We the undersigned certify that M. de la Mothe, Commandant, on behalf of the King of Detroit, Pontchartrain has spent the sums stated above, and on the other side, as set down, for the service of the King, and that the goods included in this statement are reckoned and priced at the current values at the said place; given at Fort Pontchartrain this 29th Sept. 1706. And after that is written, We Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, commandant of Fort Pontchartrain certify what is contained above to be true; given on the day and year as above.

 

(Signed)

Lamothe Cadillac; De la Forest; Derané; Boucherville;

 

 

Dufiguier; Brother Dominique de Lamarche, Lecturer
in Theology and missionary of the said fort; and
Grandmenil.

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MEMORIAL OF THE S. DE LA MOTHE CADILLAC, WITH THE
REPLIES OF M. DE VAUDREUIL IN THE MARGIN.

Endorsed- Annexed to the letter of the 30th Oct. 1706.-

To the Marquis De Vaudreuil, Knight of the military order of St. Louis, the Governor-General of all New France.
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1 The term livre indicated by # refers to both money and weight, and corresponds to the modern franc. It varied in value; in Tours passing for 20 sous and in Paris for 25, and is valued at about 20 cents American money. Sous indicated by S or sol were one-twentieth of a livre and dernier indicated by d was one-twelfth of a sol. In earlier times the latter varied, being rated at one-fifteenth or one-twentieth of a sol.

In weight the livre equals about 1.1 English pounds avoirdupois.

*Sail cloth manufactured at Mélis.


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