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The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
(p. 263)20	Louisiana
Interrogatory officially held by order of my Lord the Count de Pontchartrain by us, Commissary of the Navy, sent by order of the Court to the inhabitants of this town.
OF THE 25th OF FEBRUARY, 1708
Questioned as to his name, surname, age, quality and religion he said, after having taken and received the oath customary and required in the case by which he promised to tell the truth, that his name is Francois Trudeau, thirty-four years of age, a carpenter, of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion.
FACTS CONTAINED IN MY FIRST INSTRUCTIONS.
OF THE 30th OF JUNE, 1707.
Questioned whether he has no knowledge of the voyages that the King?s vessels have made to the sea, he said ?Yes,? of two or three voyages.
Questioned whether he did not send some goods belonging to him in these vessels to the ports of Mexico, of what they consisted and what return he got from them, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether he has no knowldge that there were put on board some goods belonging to the late Mr. D?lberville (p. 264) and to his brothers, Messrs. De Bienville and De Chateaugue or to other officers, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that he bought and saw sold some meat that the Indians brought in exchange for the presents that the King gives them, he said that as for that which the Indians brought he always saw them give it and that he gok some several times in his sickness.	1
Questioned whether it is not true that he, the deponent, bought merchandise from Sieurs de Bienville and de Chateaugue, what merchandise and at what price, he said ?No,? but that he did buy a slave from Sieur de Bienville for one hundred piastres whom he would not sell at present for three hundred.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville has always had a warehouse under another name than his own and that he, the deponent, bought merchandise, of what sort, at what price he resold it, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur (p. 265) de Bienville has always sent Canadians and men maintained in the King?s service to travel through the woods and look for peltries, he said that he has never heard any talk about it; that however he has gone to the Mississippi several times.
Questioned whether it is not true that these Canadians were carrying on trade during all these trips on the account of Sieur de Bienville and whether he, the deponent, did not buy anything
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