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Note: Upon Gabriel's death, he left the guardianship of his children to Joseph Dupuis. The following is an english translation of a legal document in which Joseph Dupuis is petitioning for another guardian so he can move to find employment.
Joseph Dupius has the honor to inform you that he has the intention of leaving the village in order to earn his living in some other place,and that in as much as he was named guardian of the minors of the late M.Gabriel Aubuchon, for this reason, he prays you very humbly to permit him to convoke an assembly of the relatives and friends of the minors in order to proceed to the nomination of a guardian in his place and stead,in order to render an account of his administration as guardian so that he may go away and no one be able to charge him with negligence. And in as much as the possessions of the said minors remain in this village,and the said petitioner will not be in a position to look after the said possessions after he has left the said village, he hopes for this favor,and that you will so order and do justice.
Kaskaskia, October 17, 1786.
Joseph + Dupius
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Let the relatives, and in default there of, some of the friends of the said guardians assemble on the nineteenth of this month in order to substitute a guardian in the place of the petitioner. We so decree.
At Kaskaskia, this seventeenth of October, 1786
M. Bouvet, J. C. C.
[Virginia Series Volume II Kaskaskia Records, 1778-1790; pages 393-394]
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