[m'lachlan] FLEURY MESPLET, FIRST PRINTER AT MONTREAL 237 



of a printer for the United States, and that he has taken with him his 

 family, furnitures, press and every other things belonging to his printing 

 office; and we do further certify that he has engaged to go with him, the 

 following persons, viz.: 



Mr. Alexander Pochard, a gentleman of learning, 



Messrs. John Grey and Hers, both as journeymen, printers, 



and one servant. 



Philadelphia. March 31st. 1785. P. G. BRETON. 



JAMES VALLIANT. 

 Philadelphia. 



Personally appeared P. G. Breton and James Valliant, both of the city 

 of Philadelphia, and made oath according to law that the above certificate 

 contains the whole truth respecting the matter therein mentioned and 

 expressed. 



Sworn at Philadelphia, the 31st March, 1785. 



Coram JOHN MILLER, I. P. 



No. 39. 



Papers of the Continental Congress, p. 367, 



I, the Underwritten, do certify that Mr. Fleury Mesplet, a printer from 

 Philadelphia, was sent in the same capacity by Congress to Canada, with 

 orders to settle at Montreal. Tliat he had along with him a compositor, 

 two pressmen and a servant. That His Excellency John Hancock, late 

 President of Congress did in my presence (as I was attending as interpreter 

 to the said Mesplet) promise him in the name of Congress, to defray every 

 reasonable expense to which he might be subjected in his then present 

 situation, and that Congress would besides give him an adequate compensa- 

 tion for his pains, and the disadvantages attending his removal. 



JOHN GERMON. 

 Philadelphia, March 31st, 1785. 



Philadelphia, ss 



Personally appeared John Germon and made oath according to law, 

 that the above certificate contains the whole truth respecting the matter 

 therein mentioned and expressed. 



Sworn, the 31st March, 1785. 



Coram JOHN MILLER, I. P. 



No. 40. 



Papers of the Continental Congress, p. 371. 



I, the Underwritten do certify that all persons to whom I have spoken 

 about Mr. Fleury Mesplet, have assured me VhSit ever since he arrived into 

 Canada, he was continually labouring under various vexations, and that 



