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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
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Report Series 83, By Margaret
Fortier, 1983, Fortress of Louisbourg
Part One - Louisbourg - The Land and its Utilization, Louisbourg Properties
Properties - Louisbourg Environs
99. Louis Seaux - Joannis Detchevelard -
François Lessenne
- Thomas Paris
LOCATION:
north shore
DATE OF CONCESSION:
1718
SIZE OF PROPERTY:
c.55 toises x 97 toises
BORDERS OF PROPERTY:
1734
- north northwest - road
- west southwest - Lessenne
- east northeast - Paris
- south southeast - harbour
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
CHANGES OF OWNERSHIP:
1720 - sold to Joannis Detchevelard
1730 - Detchevelard sold a piece of the property measuring 8 toises along the shore to Lessenne for 300 livres, and a piece measuring 7 toises to Thomas Paris.
1738 - Lessenne purchased the remainder of the property for 5500 livres
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:
1728 - cabane, grave and 21 vigneaux
1730 - same
1734 - grave and vigneaux
1738 - cabane and garden surrounded by piquets. Lessenne agreed in the purchase to build a cabane for Detchevelard on the other side of the road northwest of the property in question.
OTHER INFORMATION:
1728
- Detchevelard rented this property
for the 1729 fishing season, 1 mars -
30 novembre, to Jean De Monsegur.
1730
- Detchevelard agreed to allow Domingo
Daguerre to dry fish from the arrival
of the first boats in 1731 until the
end of September. Payment was to be
65 quintaux of cod and a barrel of oil.