Manuscript document signed, a three-year contract for George Parent to serve as a voyageur under Sieur Haco in the Illinois Country

by François Dauphin de La Forest, Henri de Tonty

$14,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

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In French. 2pp., recto and verso of a single small folio sheet. Signed by La Forest, Tonty, Eustache Faureau as witness , and Antoine Adhémar de Saint-Martin royal notary . With an English translation. Usual folds, some minor spotting, small repairs at separations along fold. Very good. Housed in a calf case, lettered in gilt. Provenance: Lawrence M. Lande. Lande, The Creditability of Land and the Development of Paper Money 291 including a full translation into English . Item

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