À VENDRE

Un Nègre âgé d’environ 25 ans, qui a eu la petite vérole. Pour plus amples informations, il faut s’adresser à Pimprimeur.”

40. J’ai vu deux actes de vente de la même négresse, l’un du 9 Juin 1783, par Elias Smith à James Finlay, et

l’autre par Finlay à Patrick Langan du 14 mai 1788, à chaque fois pour la somme de £50. On la désignait sous le nom de Peg.

5o. Voici copie d’une déposition faite le 16 Juillet 1788 :

“ This day personnally appeared before me James Finlay “ one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the Province ‘“ of Quebec, John Munro Esq. of Matilda in said Province, “ who maketh oath on the Holy Evangelists that in the year “ one thousand seven hundred and eighty he was ordered “ by His Excellency, General Sir Frederick Haldimand, to “take the command of a detachment of His Majesty’s “ troops and Indians and proceed to the ennemy’s frontiers ‘ at Balls-town andits vicinity. That the troops and In- “ dians then under his command captured a number of “ Negrues, some of which were in the house of a Colonel “ Gordon (them in the service of the American States) “ which Negroes were claimed and detained by the respec- “ tive white men and Indians who captured them, and were ‘ broughtto Montrealand sold,aswas customaryinsuch cases, ‘“ all excepting one Negroe named Dublin, who being known “ to be a free-man was liberated and inlisted in His Majes- “ ty’s service. This deponent farther adds that he never “ considered those captived Negroes as Prisoners of War, ‘ and consequently did not report them to the Commander “ in Chief, or to any other officer commanding a District or Garrison in the Province : and further this deponent saith ‘ not.

Sworn before me at Montreal this 16th day of July in “ the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and “ eighty eight, and in the twenty eight year of His Majesty’s “ Reign.”

(Signed,) Jean Munro.

(Signed,) James Finray, J. P,