TREATY. P.S. by Jacques Le Cadre & C°, Nantes, October 1 - Lot 273

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 engages Charles Guillet de Cauron for "the position of second surgeon on our said ship and allocate him fifty pounds of fees per month & three pounds ten sols (of Saint Domingue silver) per each head of blacks introduced into the colonies that will be sold for more than three hundred pounds. [...] Guillet will give the most assiduous care to the conservation of the Blacks who will have been traitter as well as to the people composing the crew, employing all the resources of his art"... Attached are 4 certificates concerning Charles Guillet, including 3 from Thermidor VII, signed by Dr. Bosquillon, surgeon Giraud, and Corvisart; and by Admiral Grivel (1837).