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patent erecting the seigniory of Longueuil into a barony : 

 it is to be found in the Eegister of the proceedings of 

 the Superior Council of Quebec, letter B, page 131, and 

 runs thus : " Louis, by the Grace of God, King of 

 France and Navarre, to all present, Greeting : It being 

 an attribute of our greatness and of our justice to 

 reward those whose courage and merit led them to per- 

 form great deeds and taking into consideration the 

 services which have been rendered to us by the late 

 Charles Le Moyne (1), Esquire, Seigneur of Longueuil, 

 who left France in 1640 to reside in Canada, where his 

 valour and fidelity were so often conspicuous in the 

 wars against the Iroquois, that our governors and lieu- 

 tenant governors in that country employed him con- 

 stantly in every military expedition, and in every 

 negotiation or treaty of peace, of all which duties he 

 acquitted himself to their entire satisfaction; — that 

 after him, Charley Le Moyne, Esquire, his eldest son, 

 desirous of imitating the example of his father, bore 

 arms from his youth, either in France, where he served 

 as a lieutenant in the Kegiment de St. Laurent, or else 

 as captain of a naval detachment, in Canada, since 1687, 

 where he had an arm shot off by the Iroquois when 

 rlohtino- near Lachine, in which combat seven of his 

 brothers were also engaged ; — that Jacques Le Moyne 

 de Ste. Helene, his brother, for his gallantry, was made 

 a captain of a naval detachment, and afterwards fell at 

 the siege of Quebec, in 1690, leading on with his elder 

 brother, Charles Le Moyne, the Canadians against Phips, 

 where his brother was also wounded ; that another 

 brother, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, captain of a sloop 

 of war, served on land and on sea, and captured Fort 

 Corlard in Hudson's Bay, and still commands a frigate ; 

 that Joseph Le Moyne de Bienville was commissioned 



(1) He was nephew to the celebrated Surgeon Adrien 

 Duchesne, his protector at Quebec. 



