Joseph Desruisseaux Voyageur contracts, 1732 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

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Title: Joseph Desruisseaux Voyageur contracts, 1732

Collection identifier: 942

Extent: 1.0 folder

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Collection Description

Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of two voyageur contracts for fur traders to lead canoe trips from Montreal, where the contracts were signed, to Illinois a Tamarois, payable in trade goods. The first is a contract between Joseph Desruisseaux and Joseph Leduc, and the second is a contract between Joseph Desruisseaux and Jean Fourneau dit Brindamour. Both contracts are in French; English translations are included in the collection.

Biographical/Historical Context:

Joseph Trottier Desruisseaux (born 1688) was a fur trader and landowner of the New France island of Ile Perrot, just west of the island of Montreal in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec.

Acquisition Source: The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections purchased these items in 2018 with support from Library Friends. They were previously in the manuscript collection of Canadian author and bibliographer Lawrence Lande.