Deposition of Jacques-Hippolyte Leber, 6th witness, audience of 8 AM, 15 April 1734.
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On the fifteen of the said monthof April Seventeen Hundred
thirty-four eight o'clock
In the Morning at Our hotel
6th
Appeared hipolite LeBert Esquire son of Sieur de Seneville Lieutenant And aide Major of this City aged fifteen years residing With the said Sieur His father; [...]
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Deposed [...] that he Knows Not by whom The Fire was set at the House of the said lady francheville; that he has Only heard by hearsay, from The Panis of Sieur de Berey to the lady francheville, that Her Negress had Told her that Her Mistress would Not Sleep in her House; that it is all that he knew.[...]
[signed]Senneville
[signed]P. Raimbault
[signed]C. Porlierclerk
Source: Archives nationales du Québec, Centre de Montréal, Procedure Criminel contre Marie Joseph Angélique negresse — Incendiere, 1734, TL4 S1, 4136, Juridiction royale de Montréal, Deposition of Jacques-Hippolyte Leber, April 15, 1734, 11-12.