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 July,17th  1686

 

Crew of the ship « Le Nom de Jésus" for the voyage to Quebec in Canada.

Pierre Durand of La Rochelle, medium stature,chestnut brown hair
Jean Durand of L’Isle Dieu,  pilot, medium stature, chestnut brown hair

Jacques Richard of Marennes, carpenter, tall stature,  black hair

Master Louis Josseaunu, surgeon, tall stature, chestnut brown hair

Guillaume Roy of St Malo, gunner, medium stature,  black hair

St Jean of  St Jean de Luz, small stature, black hair

Jacques Herbé of l’Isle Dieu, small stature, chestnut brown hair

Jean Jordain of Surgères, manufacturer of barrels (cooper), medium stature, red (auburn) hair

Samad Silouettéo of Diaris,  medium stature, black hair

Jacques Roget of La Pleine, medium stature,chestnut brown hair

Jean Ferran of Oléron, medium stature, chestnut brown hair

André Nicolas of St Gilles, a boy, medium stature,chestnut brown hair

 Joseph Pommet of Perron, a boy, medium stature, chestnut brown hair

 Estienne Daroma of Oléron, t
all stature, chestnut brown hair

Expressed (dispatched) to captain Pierre Du Raud commander

of the ship "Le Nom de Jésus"  bound for Canada  with the crew   named here to represent us on his arrival in that city under penalty of thousand pounds requested and the ordinance made at "La Rochelle"
the Eleventh day of June 1686.

And let us make defense to the master neither to embark nor to let  any other embark under pain.

Tharsio, clerk of the Navy (Clerk of the Port Authority)