Well, I guess we have done the best we can with the name of Nathaniel "Ouinisime." The first letter could be a B or a Q. Here's my best effort at Document 406, dated July 25, 1785. French: Aujourd'hui vingt cinquieme jour du mois de Juillet de l'annee mil sept cent quatre vingt cinq par devant Nous Alexandre Chev. De Clouet Lt Colonel, Commandant [des?] Attakapas et Opeloussas fut present en personne le Sr. Thomas Hoffbauer qui de son bon gre, propre mouvement, dans la meilleure forme possible et avec garantie d'hipotheque - vend, cede et transporte au Sr. Nathaniel [Quinisime?] une [Negresse/Mulatresse] nomme Marie Louise, agee d'environ quinze ans, creole et imbecille telle qu'elle se comporte et sans autre garantie pour prix et somme de quatre cent piastres dont la moitiee payable dans le courant du mois de fevrier prochain et le restant au mois de fevrier mil sept cent quatre vingt sept en argent ou monnaie du Prince. A ce clause et condition - mondit Sr. [Quinisime] jouira de ladite esclave comme bien a lui en propre et sans aucun trouble de qui que se soit. Fait et passe en notre Domicile de commandement en presence des Sieurs [Bellai?] Collins et Brunet qui avec les Sieurs Hoffbauer et [Quinisime] ont signe et nous commandant ce meme jour et an que de l'autre part. - marque ordinaire Hoffpauer x Brunet de Nat'el [Quinisime] Will: Collins Le Chev. De Clouet English: Today twenty-fifth day of the month of July of the year one thousand seven hundred eighty five before Us Alexandre Chev. De Clouet, Lt. Colonel, Commander of Attakapas and Opeloussas, was present in person Sieur Thomas Hoffbauer who of his good will, own accord, in the bestform possible and with warranty [against?] morgage - sells, cedes and transports to Sieur Nathaniel [Quinisime?] a Negress/Mulatress [both words were written in the same place and I can't tell which one was written first and which was the correction written over it] named Marie Louise, aged about fifteen years, Creole and imbecile as to her behavior, without [any] other guarantee, for the price and sum of four hundred piastres, of which half [to be] payable in the course of the month of next February, and the remainder in the month of February one thousand seven hundred eighty-seven in money or "monnaie du Prince." ** To this clause and condition - my said Sr. [Quinisime] will have possession of the said slave as his own property and without any trouble from anybody. Done and passed at our house of command in the presence of the Sieurs [Bellai?], Collins and Brunet, who with the Sieurs Hoffbauer and [Quinisime] have signed and Us Commandant this same day and year [on the other hand?]. Usual mark of Nath'l [Quinisime?] (other signatures)