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 subscribing Priest, Canon-Regular, Prior, 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 transplanted 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 general of St. Maur, into which she entered the 30th of October last; her god father being M. Memmie le Moine, procurator of the said hospital; and her god-mother, Damoiselle Marie-Nicola d’Halle, governess of the same hospital of St. Maur, who have attested the day and year above. (So signed Memmie le Moine,—D'Halle,—F. Couterot, Chanoinereg, Prieur, Cure.

I, after subscribing Priest, canon-regular, curate of St. Sulplice, do certify the present extract to be agreeable to its original. Delivered at Chalons, this of October 1750.Signed,)

D. SAIS, Prior, Cure.