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PROCEEDINGS UNDERTAKEN ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF DON FRANCISCO MENARD. (Spanish Judicial Records, Feb. 14, 1793, Louisiana History Center, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans.) Today, the twenty-seventh day of July, 1791, at four o'clock in the morning, Monsieur Francois Menard, merchant in this post, asked us to come. Having gone to him at his request, we found him to be of sound mind; and he swore to us, in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, that he wanted to make a testament, as he did in the following manner. Ignace Delino As witness Duchassin Commandant Manuel Reyes Witness Francois Vaugine Witness In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy spirit, Amen. First, he commends his soul to God its creator and remits his body to the ground from which it was created. He believes in all the mysteries of faith and other matters ordained by our Holy Mother Church, and disposes of his goods in the following form. Second. He declares that he is married in lawful matrimony to Madelaine Enselmy Billiet. Third. I* declare that I have no children by my said wife and do not believe that she is pregnant. Fourth. I declare that my property consists of six black males, who are Hector, Ignace, Pierre, Joseph, Jacques, and Leveille, and five black females, who are Quitte, Rose, Manette, Maria Marte, and Victoria. Fifth. I declare that I have three runaway slaves, who are Bobe, Marianne, and their daughter. All three are said to be living among the Choctaws. I declare that all the effects, merchandise, and liquor that are located in my house belong to me, as do all the notes and obligations that are locked in my writing desk. Sixth. I declare that I have a quantity of horses and animals in this post. Seventh. I declare that I have a house in town [i.e., New Orleans], situated in the Rue de la Madame Boisclare, which house ought to be repaired according to what is agreed to in an act that ___________________________________ *The testament abruptly changes here from the third person to the first person