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Bapt: 27 mars 1797 Québec Notre-Dame
Parrain: Sieur Robert-Lester, grand-oncle, représenté par Thomas Douglas.
Marraine: Anne lester Morrrogh représenté par Demoiselle Julie Fargues. Acte signé par: Thomas Douglass, Julie Fargues, Hugh Findlay, Robert Morrogh, prêtre J.O. Plessis


Was in business in Quebec, with his uncle Robert Lester, in a company called Morrogh & Lester in the early 1800s.

At the time of his uncle Robert Lester's death, 79 debtors owed him or his firm more than 7,400 pounds. Major ones were located in St John, Halifax and London. Joseph Frobisher of Montreal owed 423 pounds and Plessis 326 pounds. Lester's and Lester and Morrogh's properties, equipment and merchandise were valued at more thant 29,000 pounds. The house and business at 2, Rue Saint-Pierre were worth more than 5,300 pounds and the wharf and one-half of the store at Près-de-Ville 6,000 pounds.

Yet the beneficiaries of his will - Fisher, Morrogh, and relatives in Spain and Portugal - were obliged to renounce the sucession in order not to be engulfed in debts totalling more than 42,700 pounds.

ANQ-Q, greffe du notaire Jean Bélanger, 4 août 1807, No 701.