Before the Notaries of the Marine in New Orleans, Françoise [Petit] de Coulange, widow of Vincent Guillaume Dauberville, former Commissioner of the Marine of the Province of Louisiana acknowledged a debt of 7,553 livres 8 sols 6 deniers for merchandise and provisions delivered to her late husband from the royal warehouse in New Orleans. The goods had been sold to him by order of Jean Baptiste Claude Bobé Descloseaux, Commissioner of Marine. Mme Dauberville obligated herself to pay the sum by 1758 March in colonial notes or other currency. She put up all her possessions as collateral.
