[Pouvoir donnée au Sieur Franc̨ois de Vaux d'administrer certaines propriétés : Paris?] [1610?].

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[Pouvoir donnée au Sieur Franc̨ois de Vaux d'administrer certaines propriétés : Paris?] [1610?].

Document, signed "C. de Biencourt et Poutrincourt," possibly in 1610 before leaving Paris for the last time, granting François de Vaux authority to administer certain properties in Acadia, New France.

1 item ([2] leaves) ; 34 cm.

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