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\nVery humbly seeking your benediction\n\n-\n
\nRev. and very hon. Father\n
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\nIt has been a little while since I wrote to you, v. h. P., providing the state of our debts and our credits, etc., which I presented in haste the day after the changing of the Superior to the Board. Since then, I have worked to give a more exact overview, and, before I have presented it to the Board, I vow to give it here. [Translator's note: While the text is translated, sums are mostly omitted due to the difficulty of rendering the original layout.]\n\n-\n
\nCredit. Debts duly owed to the Sem. (I have specified the name of each individual and the amount) $11,002 [unclear] $60,000\n
\n\"- expired notes for $5435.10\n
\n\" - dubious debts or largely erroneous ones -- names specified\n
\nThe erroneous debts will cover the probable losses upon the collection of the others, let us then subtract...\n
\nWe can with certainty count on this amount, not the rest however\n
\nThe Convents have entered $1500 for us, this amount will be paid in a month...\n
\nWe have in the Bank of St. Louis for making good debts soon due...\n
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\nDebit. Follows the name of each individual and the amount that we must [pay] him...\n
\nDue to o[ur] v[ery] h[onored] Father, in Paris,....\n
\nThe excess after what we owe is then around 10,000 francs...I would like to say that this excess will still be [used] to compensate for the probable losses. If the business troubles do not return, we hope to collect, and we will have already paid all our debts.\n
\nOur savings since I have been in charge...\n
\n80 acres of land where our chapel of St. Francis de Sales is located...\n
\nI give the price paid in the 1st column and the value in the 2nd\n
\nAdditionally, 200 arpens [unit of land measurement] taken from our farm at the Cape\n
\n\" \" a plot of land of 10 arpens in Cape Girardeau...\n
\n\" \" a house and a plot of land in the Cape\n
\n1,000 arpens of land near the Cape\n
\n50 acres near the Seminary\n
\n8 1/2 acres near the Seminary\n
\n24 acres near the Seminary's mill\n
\nAcquisition with Mr. Boullier of 11,000 arpens and several mills\n
\n40 arpens where the church now is of Little Canada\n
\n80 arpens in Richwood where a church has since been built\n
\nAcquisition of 700 arpens of land around the church of La Vielle\n
\nMine - before neither the church nor the house were ours, all belong to us\n
\nPlot of land in St. Louis vis à vis the new Sem. and church\n
\nPlot of land of 5 arpens in St. Louis\n
\nPlot of land and small house in St. Louis\n
\nPlot of land of 4 arpens at the Cape\n
\nI have purchased slaves in order to keep families together for $4050\n
\nI have sold slaves who are not suitable for us for $1000\n
\n(2 to the Convent, 2 to good Catholics) remaining property for...\n
\nPermanent improvements for...\n
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\nI have estimated our expenses for the new church at 7000$ It was much higher, but I obtained a good sum from parishioners, moreover [by?] the glory of God or the dignity of the Worship, we have since withdrawn around 900$, for the priest and the Worship -- before, we had nothing. We have 76 boys at the College (70 fulltime boarders, 3 halftime, 3 non-boarding); there were no more than 35 at the beginning of my admin[istration].
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\n6 casks of red wine, 18 crates of red wine, 3 barrels of white wine, 19 barrels of cider, 80 barrels of Vinegar.\n
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\n1,500 livres of coffee - 12,000 livres of sugar c. a. d. enough for more than the year. Tea for the year. 800 livres of [unclear] - 1200 livres of ham, 1500 livres of [unclear], of utensils, in abundance, of other small provisions. By the tailor, we have 158 shirts and other garments already made - more than 24 ells of cloth at the price of 15 f[rancs] in Paris - 70 ells of cloth for pantaloons. 150 [crossed out] of cloth from Turin for winter soutanes, 100 ells of lighter black cloth for summer soutanes, 50 ells of lighter black cloth for [unclear] etc., of cotton, of toile etc.\n
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\nOn the farm we have 700 bushels of corn - 400 bushels of wheat, 12 adult and baby goats, 80 heads of cattle - 60 pigs - 2 carriages - 1 wagon - 2 carts - plows, etc., etc.\n
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\n(N.B. some months before I was installed, we had a public sale of animals, we were tired of the farm, we wanted to give it up, its present state is thriving as a result of the commencement of another administration. On the Seminary's farm there have been sown - 45 arpens of corn, 48 of wheat, 50 of oats, 28 of pasture, 40 of grazing land, 40 of orchard.
30 June I am going down to the Cape, where the progress of our Holy Religion and the advancement of our Congr. ennobles my soul for the struggles we have had there - at the Sunday Mass over half were present, and the Congregation was large/there were converts- our day school grows every day, and the Convent is well established in the affections of even the Protestant people - I believe that the conversions made there and at the Seminary during the past year equal, at least, the conversions in the entire Diocese. The house is in the good state of being able to support itself, it is well equipped with provisions - we count almost 400 books in the library - on the farm there are 13 heads of goats, 40 heads of cows, 80 pigs, 1 wagon, 45 arpens sown with corn, 20 arpens of meadow, 15 arpens of pasture, 3 of wheat, 2 of potatoes.\n\n-\n
\nIt has been more than a year since I requested to be put in charge, because I had done the hard work, and it was necessary to be firm and even a little hard in my affairs, I felt, and I have told you, v[ery] h[onored] F[ather], that it would be better to install for the perfection of everything, another who never had to confront so many little weaknesses. Your confidence up to this point has ensured that the work always advanced, notwithstanding the complaints that naturally will be made when one feels [financially] embarrassed. I give you detail of the provisions of the two houses - and I have asked that the Sup. and the agents make an exact inventory to assist at the yearly Visitation. Finally I tell you that, ratione numerarum, the provisions and the well being are equal in both our houses and in both our missions. But the property that I have brought to your attention is only that which has been acquired during my administration, we have more than just that. \n
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\nThe house at the Cape, 375 arpens near the Cape, 40 arpens touching the Cape, all bought by Mr. Tornatore for 3200 francs - two years before my nomination - however, it has never been paid for, [unclear] the yearly pension of my administration has all cost...\n
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\nMr. Tornatore also bought a plot of land at the Cape for...\n
\nAdditionally, Mr. T. has purchased half the plot of burned woods...\n
\nThe other half had been purchased by Mr. de Necker\n
\nMr. Rosati took for the boarding school 500 arpens for...\n
\nMr. Du Bourg, and my efforts, the Sem. and its land, have cost...\n
\nThe Seminary's mill half a league away...\n
\nThus, v[ery] h[onored] F[ather], the Good Lord has blessed us these last years - let us help ourselves to [unclear] his infinite goodness, a little succor, the 20,000 francs that you have had the generosity to offer me we share equally across all our affairs - and the Congregation will soon sit on comfortable footing -- [unclear] I must ask your pardon for the large number of facts that I have scribbled - I prostrate myself at your feet for requesting it of you.\n
\nYour unworthy servant and son\n
\nJ. Timon C. P. D.C. Gd. CM\n
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\nJ. T.
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