TREATY. P.S. by Jacques Le Cadre & C°, Nantes, October 1 - Lot 450

TREATY. P.S. by Jacques Le Cadre & C°, Nantes, October 1, 1792; 1 1/2 pages in-4, tax stamp. Jacques Le Cadre, shipowner from Nantes, "arms our ship l'Utile for Angole" (Angola) and hires Charles Guillet de Cauron for "the place of second surgeon on our said ship and let us allocate him fifty pounds of fees per month & three pounds ten sols (of Saint Domingue silver) for each head of blacks introduced in the colonies which will be sold above three hundred pounds. [...] Guillet will give the most assiduous care to the conservation of the Blacks who will have been traited as well as to the people composing the crew, employing all the resources of his art"... 4 certificates concerning Charles Guillet are attached, 3 of which are from Thermidor VII, signed by Dr. Bosquillon, the surgeon Giraud, and Corvisart; and by Admiral Grivel (1837).