I,
undersigned as Sequenot, pastor of this Parish, and wanting to certify to whom it
may concern, that Jacques Poissant dit
La Saline and Daniel Fore dit
Laprairie, the first one, son of Jacques Poissant and of
Isabelle Magos, his father and mother that come from Marennes, the episcopate of
Xaintes, and the second one, son of Isaac Fore and Ann Tibau, his mother and
father that come from Saint d’Angeli, episcopate of La Rochelle and both sons,
soldiers of the corps of Mr. Cadillac, a detachment of the Marines, have made on
this day of April 15, 1685, after the reading of the gospel during the parochial
High Mass, on Palm Sunday, at the foot of the altar, in my presence and the
presence of Mr. Jean de Bermonde, Grand Knight of Sainte Basile and Cromiere,
lieutenant of the same Order, of Mr. Jean Deroche, St. Amant, Tourblanche de
Fontenay, Laprairie, Archambau, Rainau, Gralenot, and all the parishioners, a
public abjuration from the Heresy of the Calvinists and Huguenots of France,
renouncing all connections imposed upon them, unfortunately, by their birth in
this presupposed reformed religion, promising and swearing solemnly on the Holy
Gospels, that they want to be considered in the ranks of the Holy Roman Catholic
and Apostolic Church, the one true mother church of all other churches, outside
of which there is no salvation, and to live and die, by the grace of God in the
faith that it teaches.
Mr.
Caron, after reading the profession of Faith found in the Catechism of the
Council of Trente, and constructed in part for this purpose by order of the
Fathers of Ecumenical Synod, La Saline and Laprairie, have declared in faith
that they know why I have signed below, with other witnesses, and why it is not
necessary that others sign because of the great number of persons.
This
took place on April 15, 1685 at La Pointe aux Tremble, below the Island of
Montreal.
Gillemarien
(Gille Marien), J.
Raymond, St Basile,
J. Caron, F. Laprarie
Sequenot
(Francois Sequenot, Cure)
.