Sales contract for a slave from the panis (Pawnee) nation, 7 September 1740.

Appearing before the undersigned Royal Notaries of The city and Jurisdiction Royalle of Montréal, therein residing, was Present Sieur Pierre Courreaud La Coste, Bourgeois Merchant in This city and residing therein in his house on Rue St Paul, on behalf of and As authorized by the general and special power of attorney granted by Sieur Marin Hurtubise, travelling Merchant, which was approved before Maître Le Pailleur and his Colleagues the royal notaries of This city on the fourteenth of June seventeen Hundred thirty-eight and Presented to us [...] Concerning The Presentation made to the said sieur La Coste, acting on behalf of the said Hurtubise, by damoiselle Marianne Deruisseaux, wife of the said sieur Marin urtubise here present of her Extreme Need for Money in order to have her fields Harvested and to meet her other personal Needs, not having found anyone to advance her Money and not having other Means of finding money than to sell a Slave named Manon, of the panis nation, who has been her Servant to This Day and whom she can do without; she has, for These reasons, requested the Said sieur La Coste, As proxy for the said sieur Marin urtubises, her husband to allow her [slave] to be sold to whomsoever; Wherefore The said sieur La Coste, as proxy, Acknowledged and Confessed to have sold, left, Ceded, transported and relinquished by these presents with a guarantee against all troubles and Obstacles, General and particular to sieur françois Marie de Coigne, Merchant and Bourgeois in This city, residing therein in his House on Rue St Paul,