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Documents Covering Impeachment of Bienville
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When the present interrogatory was read to him he said that it contained the truth, maintained it and signed with us. Thus signed, Burel.
Collated with the original.
D?Artaguette. (p. 295)30
Louisiana
Interrogatory officially held by order of my lord the Count de Pontchartrain by its, Commissary of the Navy, sent by order of the Court to the inhabitants of this town.
OF FEBRUARY 26th, 1708.
Questioned as to his name, surname, age, quality and religion, he said, after having taken and received the oath required and customary in the case by which he promised to tell the truth, that his name is Jacques Chauvin, thirty-six years of age, inhabitant of Louisiana, of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion.
FACTS CONTAINED IN MY FIRST INSTRUCTIONS OF JUNE 30th, 1707.
Questioned whether he has no knowledge of the voyages that the vessels of the King have made to the sea, he said ?Yes,? that the King?s brigantine once went to Vera Cruz and the boat to [the] Mississippi; that he does not know anything else.
Questioned whether he has not sent goods belonging to him on these vessels (p. 296) to the ports of Mexico, of what they consisted and what return he got from them, he said ?Yes,? that he shipped a little box containing seven dozen pairs of stockings and fourteen pieces of Brittany [linen], two or three pounds of thread.
Questioned whether he has no knowledge that goods belonging to the late Mr. D?Iberville and to his brothers Messrs. De Bienville and De Chateaugue or to other officers were shipped, he said that he has no knowledge of it.
Questioned whether it is not true that he has bought and seen sold meat that the Indians brought in exchange for the presents that the King gives them, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that he, the deponent, bought goods from Sieurs de Bienville and de Chateaugue, what goods and of What price, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville caused an Alabama prisoner to be burnt with slow fire at the gate of the fort, he said ?No,? that he has never been burnt.
?Copyist?s note: ?Page 294 [is a] blank page.?