forefathers descent was that he had heard they came from Masquaro or Bear's Tail the last Post on Mingan Seignory[.]

This sage however unites in his own person a civil and ecclesiastical employ being chief of Mingan and a member of the church. His long and solemn visage is adorned with one optic only having lost the other not it may be presumed in gazing on the heavenly Bodies nor like Kings Phillip of old in Battle by the arrow of his Enemy for one eyed Joseph is equally averse from Study and war but in grappling with the sweet partner of his Bed at a moment when the fumes of strong liquor had driven their small stock of reason from its seat in the upper story and she with a dexterity peculiar to her sex in the use of her defensive weapons, her Talons, soon scratched from poor Joseph's Phiz that organ through which he usually took aim at the seals as well as at those troublesome offsprings of his Body which like unnatural Children preyed upon & destroyed the peace of him who gave them

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