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Researching the
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
THE
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF 18TH CENTURY LOUISBOURG
Microfiche
Report Series 83, By Margaret
Fortier, 1983, Fortress of Louisbourg
Part One - Louisbourg - The Land and its Utilization, Louisbourg Properties
Properties - Louisbourg Environs
85. Marmande - Marie Madelaine Du Cheron, Veuve Ferret - Marie Charlotte and Marie Magdelaine Ferret - Jean Briand - Martin Paris dit Heron
LOCATION:
barachois
DATE OF CONCESSION:
verbal
permission only - 1718
SIZE OF PROPERTY:
5 toises x 90
toises
BORDERS OF PROPERTY:
northeast - Sabatier
southwest - stream (St. Esprit)
southeast - harbour
northwest - road
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
This property seem to have escaped the
1750s provision that 6 toises along the
stream be reserved for public use
CHANGES OF OWNERSHIP:
1726 - Marmnde sold the land to Veuve Ferret
date unknown - Veuve Ferret died, leaving property in hands of daughters, Marie Magdelaine, wife of Pierre Dumas, and Marie Charlotte, widow of Antoine Paris and wife of Dominique Collongue
1743 - they sold the property to Jean Briand for 600 livres
1752 - Briand sold it to Martin Paris dit Heron for 350 livres
date unknown - when the adjacent property was sold in 1758, this land was
said to belong to Pierre Varenne
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: