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The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville had a ship?s boat dispatched after another that was taking the letters of Mr. De La Vente, the curate, to the Aigle, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that when the ship?s boat dispatched by Sieur de Bienville had overtaken the one dispatched by Sieur de La Vente he had the letters delivered to him, he said that he has no knowledge of it.
Questioned whether he does not know at all the people who were in these ship?s boats, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether he does not know Mrs. Le Sueur, a relative of Messrs. De Bienville, he said that he has known her since she has been here.
Questioned about what she is doing here, he said that she sells the goods of Sieurs de Bienville and de Chateaugue.
Questioned [about] what sorts of goods they are. he said brandy, linen, hats, shirts, shoes, and all kinds, (p. 310).
Questioned [as to] how he knows that these goods belonged to Sieurs de Bienville and de Chateaugue and what mark they had, he said that it was because he had seen them take pains to = have them unloaded and had seen their mark which is a B.
Questioned whether he does not know at all where his goods j are, whether they are at Mrs. Le Suer?s, he said ?Yes,? that she \ keeps them in her house and in a warehouse near the water, that , belongs to the late Mr. D?Iberville.	j
Questioned whether the late Sieur d?Iberville did not have ; some in this warehouse, he said ?Yes? and that he bought some > powder at one piastre a pound and some lead [at] thirty-six \ sous a pound, that at that time this warehouse was full, that he [ saw twenty barrels of powder in it and all sorts of other goods ? suitable for the use of persons.	\
Questioned whether it was the said Mrs. Le Suer who al-| ways delivered them to him, he said ?No,? that she has been de-^ livering them only since little Lallemand35 went back to France. I
(p. 311).	t
Questioned whether it is not true that the late Sieur d?Iber-{: ville had other powder elsewhere also and whether he bought?;' any elsewhere, he said that he saw some more in the house ofl Sieur de Bienville at the fort and that there was a great deal off
^The French is qu?elle n?en delivre que Depuis Le petit Lallemant est pas$6 en.. france. Some light on this person may be thrown by the following extract from a,i letter of D?Artaguette to Fontchartrain, C. 13, Vol. 2, page 337: copy Vol. 2, page 179 ?I am asking and questioning quietly all those who can give me information about? the commerce that the late Mr. D. I?Iberville may have carried on. It is alleged thatj he always had a warehouse full of goods. I learned from Mr. I>e Bienville, Com-*, mandant of this colony, that there came on the Pelican commanded by Mr. Duj* Coudr?, with his private mark, sixteen or seventeen packages for his brother whicb? were sold at Havana by one Lallemand (par le Nomm6 Lallement). The money? coming from the sale of (p. 338) these goods served to pay the garrison. It will ba^. learned in France from this clerk what these goods may have contained in order* to have the freight for them paid by [or possibly ?to?] Madame D?Iberville. This; clerk resides near Rochefort on an estate belonging to this lady.? (Mobile, August' 18th, 1708).