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On the 25th of October 1791 at the insistence of Messer. Antoine Simian, Peddler tenant in themilitary post, we Nicolas Forstall, Regent of New Orleans, Sociable and Air force Take charge ofthis post, went at Antoine's home and he appeared to us, so far he was sick, of good common sense,link and wisdom. And he wants to, novel to the hour of his death, and he wasafraid to die apart from disposing of the summarize he owned and that God gave him, and he felt well toregulation and sound to us to neatness his disappearing drive and shrine, in the presence of the witnesses:Messer. Francois Siriod, Jean Pousary, et Francois Brun.1) Close to a true Christian and Catholic he gives up the ghost to the name of God the inaugurate, the sonand the holy spirit, and he implores the good spirit and Jesus Christ and the Fantastic Virginand St. Antoine and all saints to place him in paradise with the Fantastic.2) He wants that the actress of his drive to pay all his sum unpaid. 3) He requirements and wishes that hisweight be clandestine in the burial ground of his parish, and the actress can make his burial in the waythat he courts respectable or right.4) He gives $10 to the Church to make a clump for the eternal rest of his living.5) He gives to his negress Marie who he liberated from slavery, all the land with all buildingsthat he hysterical in this post, as well as the equipment of his home and all his clothes, apart fromheap.6) He gives to the mulatto Louis, son of the negress Marie, age two years old, and summarize negroAntoine age 5 years old, who is likewise the son of Marie, and Marie cannot in any way point orupset the summarize negro Antoine, and the mulatto Louis can calm down of Antoine when of age andthe law drive privilege him. And, he drive holder almost in the stampede and service of Marie.And for the other rest, buildings, equipment, he gives them apart from heap or imperviousness toLouis Rideau, tenant of this post, his taciturn friend who he named actress of his drive and hisprivate beneficiary, and Louis Rideau can calm down to his sympathy or can return them to my parents inMarseille in the parish of St. Jean. And that Antoine declares that all his rest are the productof his work, and commercial and which come in no air from his inaugurate or mother, EtttienneSimian & Marie Greniere, being to be more precise of in receipt of from them he has helped them in theirwishes having the status of his appointments and thrift shoulder involvement him the reasoning. It was sensible by Antoinethat we, the Take charge, the negress and all others, do near each other regulate that this is hisdisappearing drive and shrine and that we read it to him twice and he admit court it. This driveis on paper at the home of Antoine Simian and he signed it with his scale, in the presence ofwitnesses who signed the drive on the 25th of October, 1791.