Posted 9 months ago
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Very old unknown writing on a very fragile piece of paper not sure what it means can anybody help me understand what I have . The last image is the back of the paper with some more writing
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Looks like it’s written in French
Ok thanks
Yes, definitely appears to be French.
French and really beautiful handwriting! definitely written by a pro!
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It’s hard to tell from the photos but I wonder if the paper is vellum. The only word I can really make out at the top is “flowers” - please let us know if you get any of it translated!
There is a date there or two actually. They relate to the fifteenth and the eighteenth of December 1696.
On the signature page there are the place names Moyemont and Romont, both in Vosges, France
On the reverse of the document we have :
"Pour le Sieur Claude Henry Chastelain
Et Patricien a Romont
Contre
Sieurs Fleurent, Colin & Joseph
Thonnenot habitants de Moyemont
As MMNJ says Moyemont - Romont are in the Vosges. In fact another place mentioned Rambervillers is also on the D 32 these days : Moyemont - Romont - Rambervillers - a total distance of just 8.5 km (or 5.25 miles).
On the reverse we have 'acquch' should be an abbreviation of 'acquisition'. A purchase agreement ???
Y'all are really making some progress on this. :-)
I could tell it was French, but because I don't speak it myself, I didn't have any confidence that I could properly transcribe much of it.
However, a Google Translate reading of one of vetraio50's transcriptions suggests to me that this might be some kind of dispute, "Contre" translating to "Against":
For Mr. Claude Henry Chastelain
And Patrician in Romont
Against
Misters Fleurent, Colin & Joseph
Thonnenot inhabitants of Moyemont
https://translate.google.com/
Or am I completely off-base?
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