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Charitable donation of land to benefit the poor of Québec 1665 July 31 [box ]

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Open book Charitable donation of land to benefit the poor of Québec 1665 July 31

Title Charitable donation of land to benefit the poor of Québec 1665 July 31 [box ]

Creator Lauson de Charny, Charles de, c. 1629-ca. 1690

Date 1665

Place Québec

Language French

Subjects Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Land grants, Land tenure, Land titles, Poor

Description Charles Lauson de Charny also made a grant of land along the Lauson shore to the Hôtel-Dieu of Québec in exchange for a high mass to be said each year for the repose of his wife's soul; cf. Dictionary of Canadian biography. Toronto : University of Toronto, 1966, v. 1, p. 431.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Grant of land, signed and dated in Québec on July 31, 1665 by Charles de Lauson de Charny, the profits of which are designated for the benefit of the poor of Québec. Rents and profits from a parcel of land which measures sixteen arpents by two arpents of frontage along the Lauson shore of the St. Lawrence River, with water rights to a depth of forty arpents, are to be administered by Mother Marie de St. Bonaventure de Jesus, superior of the hospitaller nuns of Misericordia at the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, and Mother Marie de la Nativité, for charitable uses. Income includes annual rent of twenty sols from each tenant, capons, and beeswax; hunting and fishing rights; rights to sell eels and other fish taken from the waters named in the concession; exemption from payment of interests, penalties, or damages done to the lands by work animals; and rights to have their grain ground in any mills built on the property. The grant was executed by the notary Pierre Duquet, whose signature appears below, along with those of Lauson de Charny, and witnesses Dr. Therou, surgeon, and Jacques de la Métairie, notary of Fort Frontenac in New France, who later served as notary for the 1682 La Salle expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi.

Biographical/Historical Note Acting governor of New France, and later Jesuit priest, ecclesiastical judge, and vicar general, appointed in 1664 by Bishop François Laval to serve as ecclesiastical superior of the Hôtel-Dieu of Québec.

Extent [2] leaves ; 32 cm

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 497

BibID 170421

Projects Tag French Paleography

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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