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an ensign in the said naval detachment, and was killed 

 by the Iroquois in the attack on the place called Kepen- 

 tigny ; that Louis Le Moyne cle Chateauguay, when 

 acting as lieutenant to his brother, d'Iberville, also fell 

 in the taking of Fort Bourbon, in the Hudson's Bay ; 

 that Paul Le Moyne de Maricourt is an ensign in the 

 navy, and captain of a company in the naval detach- 

 ment, acting in the capacity of ensign to his brother 

 d'Iberville ; that, in carrying out our intentions for set- 

 tling Canada, the said Charles Le Moyne, the eldest son, 

 has spent large sums in establishing inhabitants on the 

 domain and seigniory of Longueuil, which comprises 

 about two leagues in breadth on the St. Lawrence, and 

 three leagues and a half in depth, the whole held from 

 us with haute, moyenne et basse justice, wherein he is 

 now striving to establish three parishes, and whereat, 

 in order to protect the residents in times of war, he has 

 had erected at his own cost a fort supported by four 

 strong towers of stone and masonry, with a guardhouse, 

 several large dwellings, a fine church, bearing all the 

 insignia of nobility; a spacious farm yard, in which 

 there is a barn, a stable, a sheep-pen, a dove-cot, and 

 other buildings, all of which are within the area of the 

 said fort ; next to which stand a banal mill, a fine 

 brewery of masonry, together with a large retinue of 

 servants, horses and equipages, the cost of which 

 buildings amount to some 60,000 livres; so much so 

 that this seigniory is one of the most valuable of 

 the whole country, and the only one fortified and built- 

 up in this way ; that this has powerfully contri- 

 buted to protect the inhabitants of the neighboring 

 seigniories ; that this estate, on account of the exten- 

 sive land clearings and work done and to be done on it, is 

 of great value, on which thirty workmen are employed ; 

 that the said Charles Le Moyne is now in a position to 

 hold a noble rank on account of his virtue and merit : 

 for which consideration we have thought it due to our 

 sense of justice to assign not only a title of honor 



