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Invoice for wages of boat crews, 16 December 1786
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1 folded sheet
Pierre Meziere was a lawyer working in Montreal in 1786. Likely Pierre-François Mézière, a French lawyer and notary who migrated to Quebec in approximately the 1760s. He was married to Michel-Archange Campeau, with whom he had 15 children, 9 who survived to adulthood. His son, Henry-Antoine Mézière, was a prominent publisher and journalist.
Invoice for the wages of crew-members of two boats charged to James Morrison for a voyage made to Carleton Island. Signed by Pierre Meziere, lawyer. A previous inventory identifies the crew members as voyageurs and the boats as canoes, with four people per boat - a steersman, a lead, and two middle crew members.
In French with English translation.