female Negro slave named Rose, dated January 15, 1794, the vendor
being P. Byrne, the purchaser Simon Meloche, for the price of 360
shillings, deposited with the Notary J. P. Delisle. On the third of
September John Shuter by notarial act promised his Negro, Jack, to
give him his liberty in six years, if, in the meantime, he served him
faithfully. Later, on November 2, 1803, Shuter declared that Jack had
fulfilled his obligation, and he accordingly emancipated him. On the
thirteenth of September, J. B. Routier, merchant of the Faubourg
Saint-Antoine, sold to Louis Charles Foucher, Solicitor-General of His
Majesty, Jean Louis, a mulatto, aged 27 years, height 5' 10", the
price being 1300 shillings. Routier declared that he had bought Jean
Louis as well as his mother at the Island of Saint-Domingue in 1778.
On the twenty-third of November Cesar, a free Negro of New London,
Connecticut, engaged for ten years as a domestic to Dr. John Aussem,
living in the Faubourg Saint Antoine, with a salary of 30 louis in
advance. Dr. Aussem reserved to himself the right to sell the services
of his domestic to whomsoever he pleased during the ten years.

On the twenty-fifth of May, 1797 Dame Marie-Catherine Tessier, Widow
of Antoine Janisse, in his lifetime a voyager, liberated her slave
Marie Antoine de Pade, an Indian, aged 23 years, in recognition of her
services which she had rendered her, and in addition gave her a
trousseau. On the twenty-fifth of August Thomas Blaney, gold painter,
sold to Thomas John Sullivan, hotel-keeper of Montreal, the Negro
Manuel about 33 years old for 36 louis, payable in monthly instalments
of three louis each. On the same date and before the same notary,
Sullivan promised the slave to liberate him in 5 years, if he served
him faithfully. On the twenty-second of November George Westphall,
formerly Lieutenant of the 6th Regiment, who owed 20 louis to Richard
Dillon, proprietor of the Montreal Hotel in security for payment,
delivered to his creditor a mulatress, a slave called Ledy, aged 26
years. She was to work with Mr. Dillon until he was repaid what was
owed him by Westphall for principal and interest.

In the year 1793, there came up in the Court of Appeal at Quebec a
case involving slavery but nothing was really decided. The plaintiff
Jacob Smith sued Peter McFarlane in the Court of Common Pleas for
taking away his wife and her clothes and detaining them. McFarlane
claimed that Smith's wife was his sl