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papers of François Grenaple in the Judicial Archives at Quebec, and 

 for a copy of which I am greatly indebted to the Keeper of the Arch- 

 ives M. Philéas Gagnon. This important document, which I intend 

 later to publish in full with translation (probably in my series of 

 Historical-geographical Documents in the Collections of the N. B. 

 Historical Society), recites that the Sieur de Fronsac having offered 

 the authorities of the Seminary of Quebec three leagues of land at 

 the River St Croix (Miramichi) for a mission, that he (de Fronsac) 



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wishing to leave his establishment at River St. Croix for another 

 place more convenient for his business, and that the said place being 

 found very convenient for the purposes of the mission, as shown by 

 the report of the missionary Thury, he [Fronsac] hereby sells to the 

 authorities of the Seminary all his improvements (including buildings, 

 clearings etc.) at the said place and also grants them there the three 

 leagues of land of which the boundaries are described. Happily these 



