- Ethnohistorical collection
Manuscript
De la Gauchetière, Daniel Migeon. Old signed document. Notice of disappearance or defection of a soldier. Montreal. Signed by La Gauchetière, an officer of the Compagnie franche de la Marine, the document announces the disappearance or defection of a soldier, Marteau dit L’espérance. After a fruitless search, he asks Governor Dubois Bertelot de Beaucour, Governor of Montreal, to continue the search. Another three-line text from another hand ordering that this be done. Mr de La Corne is to be informed, as is the Baron de Longueuil.
- Accession Number 2018.14.27
- Date 1742-12-01
- Medium and Support ink, paper
- Measurements 22,5 x 36,5 cm
Historical context
Un des pires crimes que peut commettre un soldat en Nouvelle-France au 18e siècle est de quitter l’armée sans permission, de déserter. Cela le rend passible de la peine de mort.
Ce document constitue le point de départ de la poursuite d’un soldat déserteur de la garnison de Montréal, François Marteau dit Lespérance. Le premier décembre 1742, son capitaine Daniel Migeon de La Gauchetière (1671-1746) demande au gouver...
- Accession Number 2018.14.27
- Date 1742-12-01
- Medium and Support ink, paper
- Measurements 22,5 x 36,5 cm
© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, 2018.014.027
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