Addition of information by Ignace Gamelin, 16th witness, audience of 9 AM, 6 May 1734.

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16th Appeared Sieur Ignace Gamelin, son, Bourgeois merchant of This city aged thirty-Five years, residing on Rue St Paul. [...]

Deposed [...] that all that he can possibly know of It, Is that on the day, or on the eve the first King's canoe left for Quebec [City] following the ice Melt, In speaking to lady de francheville, on the Subject of the Said Negress that she proposed to send to quebec in the first small boats or with Moran, if he had Returned on the ices on the proposal

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of Mr Cugnet [François-Étienne Cugnet], who would supply her with six Hundred pounds of powder for the price of the said Negress and by Her be sent at her Own expense to Monsieur L'Intendant; She said, to him Deposing, that she dared not, no longer having Her maid, Sleep Alone in Her house for The fear that she had of the said Negress, during the night. And on the offer that he made to Send someone to Sleep at her home, She Told him that it would please her If the Young de Couagne did not go there at all, As she had asked. That Since the Fire the Said lady francheville told Him that she had left her home on That day only in the after noon to go to the Church; and that the said Negress had not served her better than since Her Servant had gone out; that he knows that the said servant had gone out only

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because of the Said Negress And until she was Sent to Quebec [City]; that it is all he is said to know.[...]

[signed]Ignace gamelin

[signed]P. Raimbault