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Langlois Indian Land 

Purchase Agreement

 [Editor’s note – this document was translated for the Windsor Catholic School Board by a professor of Archaic French at the University of Windsor, sometime prior to its publication in 1991.  This learned man spent over a year in researching and completing this translation.  We are very fortunate to have had it done. This was copied from a poster on the history of Windsor – June 1857.   An arpent is a division of land, slightly less than a acre in size.]

Antoinne Langlois, our friend having made a presentation to us of the extreme need of his to have land he lives on expanded and the great harm that would be caused to him if someone else would become the owner, and we, deep insides ourselves, wishing nothing more that to oblige our brothers the French, those most of all with whom we have been raised, as per consideration for their huge families, and seeing for ourselves that their lands are ruined by needs of all sorts of construction wood, this considered, we, assembled chiefs of the Outawoise (Ottawa) Nation, of different tribes, acting on ourselves and all those whom these lands belong to, have granted and do hereby grant hereby, to Antoinne Langlois, for himself, his heirs, -- or vested ones, in extension to the eighty arpents which are already carried on his first contract, fifty other arpents in continuation of depth, to follow the same orientation as its present boundaries, and of equal width to the one that his land is consisted of.  And as of this very day arrived, we endow him with ownership and we light up a fire anew for him, as the most certain sign that there will never be trouble in his big hunger, as we want him to enjoy for himself, his heirs or vested ones, and we have made our customary marks.

Détroit Feb 15, 1787

Attending witnesses

Maisonville

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