We inhabitance of St. Johns Bay ... have this day requested ... St. Ovide de Broueland ... to accorde us ... the ransom of ower goods as mentioned in the artukells as undar written : St. Johns, Nfld., [1709 Jan. 27].

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We inhabitance of St. Johns Bay ... have this day requested ... St. Ovide de Broueland ... to accorde us ... the ransom of ower goods as mentioned in the artukells as undar written : St. Johns, Nfld., [1709 Jan. 27].

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Contemporary copy of the Jan. 27, 1709, articles of ransom agreed upon by the inhabitants of St. John's Bay, Newfoundland, and vicinity, and Saint-Ovide de Brouillan, the French lieutenant governor of Placentia or Plaisance, Newfoundland, who had surprised and captured Fort William and St. John's almost a month before.

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