MARTINIQUE. P.S. "Louis" (LOUIS XV, secretary), countersigned by Phelypeaux, Vincennes October 8, 1715; oblong parchment, folio (50 x 30 cm). Commission of lieutenant-colonel of the militia regiment of La Touche in Martinique for S. Le Vassor de La Touche fils. "Estant nécessaire d'établir un lieutenant colonel de milice du régiment commandé à l'Isle de la Martinique par le Sr de La Touche vostre père", he is named colonel of the regiment, in order to command it in the absence of his father "and to lead and operate it under our authority, under that of the Sr marquis Du Quesne governor and our lieutenant general in the Isles of America called Isles du Vent and of the particular governor of Martinique"...