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23 and that her native country is the coast of Hudson’s Bay, considerably to the north of Nova Scotia, the principal of the British settlements in North America.

From the Baptism Register of the Parish

Church of St. Sulplice, of the Town of

Chalons, in Champagne.

The 16th of June, in the year of our Lord, was baptized by me, after subscribing Priest, Canon-Regular, Prier, Curate of St. Sulplice of Chalons, in Champagne, Marie Angelique Memmie, aged about eleven years, whose parents are unknown, even to the girl herself, who has been either born in, or transported when very young to some island in America, from whence, by the disposition of a merciful providence, having landed in France, and being still conducted by the same goodness of God, into this diocese, has been, at last, placed under the patronage of our illustrious bishop, in the Hospital Cenaral of St.