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Confrontation of Marguerite César dit Lagardelette, 7th witness, with Angélique, 4 in the afternoon, 14 May 1734.

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Confrontation done [...] Against Marie Joseph angelique negress Slave [...] And thibault accused and accomplice, of the witnesses heard [...] The fourteen of April last and This In the Execution of Our ordinance of the eleven of the month of April [...]

On Friday fourteenth
May Seventeen Hundred thirty-
four at four in the
Afternoon In the Chamber of the
Gaol of the prison of this
city

Had brought before Us by the Gaol keeper of the Prison The said Accused

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whom we Confronted with Marguerite Cesar Seventh witness [...] stated that they Know each other [...]

And Interrogated [...] The said accused stated that she had no Reproaches to make until after Hearing Her Deposition, upon which We again Explained The ordinance to Her;

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This done we had a Reading done to the said accused of the Deposition and Re-examination of the said witness And upon hearing It she stated that there was nothing extraordinary In It;

And the said witness Stated that Her deposition And Re-examination Are truthful and said of the said accused present That she Heard her speak as stated in Her Deposition And Re-examination And Maintained this to the said accused;

Who Said that she had the Habit of being in constant Movement and Of often going Into the Street And that It is her wont to Look from Side to Side;

And the said Cesar Stated that she had Never seen The said Negress Watching So attentively for so long as she had been doing in The Street And that this was what Caused her to Worry, which made her go out to see what was Urging The said Negress to Look from Side [to] Side, just as she

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Had deposed [...]

[signed]marguerite cesar

[signed]C. Porlier
clerk

[signed]P. Raimbault

Source: Archives nationales du Québec, Centre de Montréal, Procedure Criminel contre Marie Joseph Angélique negresse — Incendiere, 1734, TL4 S1, 4136, Juridiction royale de Montréal, Confrontation of Marguerite César dit Lagardelette with Angélique, May 14, 1734.

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