FRENCH SEIGNIORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
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Quebec. By means of the orders they should transmit to the Governour of New York to whichProvince His Majesty had been pleased quite recently to annex those parts not settled by His Proc-lamation of the 7 th October last, they should instruct him not to concede any land either in mySeigniories or their vicinity, until their situation was perfectly understood; that I may be assuredthat in whatever part of the King’s obedience any of my property may be situate, I should possessand enjoy them equally as those included within the limits of the Government of Quebec ” andterminated with the most gracious compliments for Mde. de Lotbiniere and the rest of my family.These orders have been addressed and arrived at the time in the Province: The letter which Lieu-tenant Governour Cadwallader Colden did me the honour to write me on the ll‘ h of September 1765,proves it beyond dispute.
Since my arrival in this Country I have done every thing in my power, as well with the said SieurColden as with Sir Henry Moore, to whom I presented on Lake Champlain my original titles. Iconstantly endeavored to interest in my behalf all those with whom I was acquainted, residents ofthe said Province, who have been so good as to act, from time to time, near the said Government. Iexperienced the same attention here and in London , since my departure, so that it is impossible toconceive in me any, even the smallest, neglect as regards these two Seigniories, which at present arethe sole certain portion of my existence, abridged in all the rest by a forced prosecution of my pro-ceedings in their regard, and unable to enjoy them since the peace. Montreal , the 20 th September,One thousand seven hundred ard seventy one.
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MEMOIR OF TWO SEIGNIORIES AT THE HEAD OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN .
To the Right HonP le the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations , the following Memorial of
Michel Chartier de Lotbiniere Sfc.
Sheweth, That he is proprietor of two Fiefs and Seigniories which are held from the King; the oneunder the name of Jllainville four leagues and over in front, partly on Lake St Sacrement (now lakeGeorge) and partly on the River St Frederic (Crown point River) with a depth of five leagues towardsthe West which was granted to him the 15 th November 1758 by the Marquis of Vaudreuil the thenGovernor General in Canada , (copy of said Concession annexed) on which he had made divers estab-lishments that have been successively ruined by the English armies.
The other of a nearly equal front opposite St Frederic (Crown point) extending northwardly alongthe River and Lake by a depth five leagues East, which he acquired 7 April last from Sieur HocquartCouncillor of State and Intendant of the Naval forces at Brest to whom the aforesaid was granted bytwo Patents of Concession the 20 April 1743, and 1 April 1745, of which the major part of thesettlements have been, in like manner, destroyed in the last war. 1
The Memorialist being assured that the said two Fiefs are not included within the new Governmentof Quebec formed from a part of Canada , and not being unable to discover from the Kings Procla-tion of the 7 th October last, which establishes the boundaries of said New Government, nor elsewhere,
1 The first of these Seignoires was in the present County of Essex, N. Y.; the other, on the opposite side of Lake Cham-plain, embraced the present towns of Panton, Addison and Bridport, in Addison Co., Vt. , and will be found laid down inthe English Map of Lake Champlain annexed.
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