chapter v

. of the present volume.

=1640-1641.=—VIMONT. _Relation ... ès années 1640 et 1641._ Paris, 1642. Pages 8, 216, 104. Chap. vi. is numbered viii., and there are other irregularities.

CONTENTS: Report,—Missions News; Wars with the Iroquois; Tadousac Mission; Report from the Huron Country by Lalemant, June, 1640, to June, 1641; First mention of Niagara as Onguiaahra; a Huron Prayer interlined.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,720; Harrisse, no. 77; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. p. 509; Lenox, p. 6; O’Callaghan, no. 1,220; Harrassowitz, 1883 (100 marks). Cf. Faillon, _Hist. de la Col. Française_, vols. i. and ii., chaps. 4 and 5, on this Iroquois War.

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=1642.=—VIMONT. _Relation ... en l’année 1642._ Paris, 1643. Pages 8, 191, 1, 170; pp. 76, 77, omitted in paging.

CONTENTS: Report,—Founding of Montreal; Capture of Jogues; Lunar Eclipse, April 4, 1642; Lalemant’s Report from the Huron Country, June, 1641, to June, 1642.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,271; Harrisse, no. 80; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 528; Lenox, p. 6; O’Callaghan, no. 1,221; Harrassowitz, 1883 (125 marks); Dufossé, 1878 (180 francs).

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On Jogues’ exploration to the Sault Ste. Marie, see Margry, _Découvertes_, i. 45; Shea’s _Charlevoix_, i. 137.

For references on the founding and early history of Montreal, see Harrisse, p. 79. The Abbé Faillon’s _Histoire de la Colonie Française en Canada_, Paris, 1865-1866, three volumes, with maps, pertains chiefly to Montreal, and was left incomplete at the author’s death.

[Illustration: MONTREAL AND ITS VICINITY.

Faillon, _Histoire de la Colonie Française_, iii. 375, gives a map of Montreal preserved in the French archives,—_Plan de Villemarie et des premières rues projetées pour l’établissement de la Haute Ville_. This represents the town at about 1665. There is a fac-simile of another plan of about 1680 preserved in the library of the Canadian Parliament, the original being at Paris (_Catalogue_, 1858, p. 1,615). A plan of 1685 is given in _l’Héroïne Chrétienne du Canada, ou Vie de Mlle. le Ber, Villemarie_, 1860. Charlevoix gives a map with the old landmarks, and it is reproduced in Shea’s edition, ii. 170. A later one is in La Potherie, 1753 edition, ii. 311 (given above), and one of about 1759, in Miles’s _Canada_, p. 296.]

He derives new matter from the public archives in France, goes over afresh the whole history of Champlain’s career, and throws light on points left dark by Charlevoix and the earlier narrators, and is in some respects the best of the recent French historians; but Parkman (_Jesuits_, p. 193) cautions us that his partisan character as an ardent and prejudiced Sulpitian should be well kept in mind (cf. Field, p. 518; and chap. vii. of the present volume). Dollier de Casson’s _Histoire de Montréal_, 1640-1672, is a manuscript in the Mazarin Library in Paris, of which Mr. Parkman has a copy. It was printed in 1871 by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, in the third series of their historical documents. Parkman refers to (_Jesuits_, p. 209), and gives extracts from, _Les véritables Motifs ... de la Société de Notre Dame de Montréal pour la Conversion des Sauvages_, which was published in 1643 as a defence against aspersions of the “Hundred Associates.” It was probably printed at Paris. A copy some years since passed into an American collection at 800 francs. A transcript of a copy, collated by Margry, was used in the reprint issued in the _Mémoires de la Société historique de Montreal_, in 1880, under the editing of the Abbé Verreau, who attributes it to Olier, while Faillon has ascribed it to Laisné de la Marguerie. The editor adds some important “notices bibliographiques et documentaires;” some “notes historiques par le Commandeur Viger,” from an unpublished work,—_Le Petit Registre_; a “liste des premiers Colons de Montreal.” Of the older authorities, Le Clercq and Charlevoix (Shea’s edition, note, ii. 129) are useful; but Charlevoix, as Parkman says, was not

## partial to Montreal. The Société historique de Montreal began in 1859

the publication of _Mémoires et Documents relatifs a l’histoire du Canada_. The first number, “Dè l’Esclavage en Canada,” was the joint work of J. Viger and L. H. Lafontaine, but it has little matter falling within the present period; the second, “De la Famille des Lauson,” the governor of New France after 1651, by Lafontaine, with an Appendix on the “Vice-Rois et Lieutenants Generaux des rois de France en Amerique,” by R. Bellemare; the third, “Ordonances de M^{r} Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, premier gouverneur de Montreal,” etc; the fourth, “Règne Militaire en Canada;” the fifth, “Voyage de Dollier et Galinée.” See a paper on Montreal and its founder, Maisonneuve, in the _Canadian Antiquarian_, January, 1878. Concerning the connection of M. Olier with the founding of Montreal and the schemes connected with it for the conversion of the savages, see Faillon, _Vie de M. Olier_, Paris, 1873, iii. 397, etc., and references there cited; and also see Faillon, _Vie de Mdlle. Mance_, Paris, 1854, and Parkman in _Atlantic Monthly_, xix. 723.

=1642-1643.=—VIMONT. _Relation ... en l’années 1642 et 1643_. Paris, 1644. Pages 8, 309, 3.

CONTENTS: Report,—Algonquin Letter, with interlinear Translation; Founding of Sillery; Tadousac; Five Letters from Père Jogues about his Captivity among the Iroquois, beginning p. 284, giving, in substance only, the Latin narrative mentioned below; Declaration of the Company of New France, that the Jesuits took no part in their trade; Further notice of Nicolet’s Exploration towards the Mississippi.

[Illustration: THE SITE OF MONTREAL.

From Lescarbot’s map of 1609, showing the Mountain and the Indian town, Hochelaga, the site of Montreal. Newton Bosworth’s _Hochelaga Depicta_ was published in Montreal in 1839.]

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,272; Harrisse, no. 81; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 552; Lenox, p. 6; O’Callaghan, no. 1,222.

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Nicolet’s explorations, which have usually been put in 1638-39, were fixed by Sulté in 1634; cf. his _Mélanges_, Ottawa, 1876, and Draper’s annotations in the _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, viii. 188, and _Canadian Antiquarian_, viii. 157. This view is sustained in C. W. Butterfield’s _Jean Nicolet_, Cincinnati, 1881. Cf. Margry, _Découvertes_, i. 47; Creuxius, _Historia Canadensis_, and the modern writers,—Parkman, _La Salle_: Harrisse, _Notes_; Margry, in _Journal de l’Instruction publique_, 1862; Gravier, _La Salle_; etc. See also chap. v. of the present volume.

=1643-1644.=—VIMONT. _Relation ... ès années 1643 et 1644._ Paris, 1645. Pages 8, 256, 4, 147 (marked 174).

CONTENTS: Report, giving account of the Capture of Father Bressani; Huron Report by Hierosme Lalemant; War of the Five Nations against the Hurons.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,273; Harrisse, no. 83; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 576; Lenox, p. 6. O’Callaghan, no. 1,223. Recently priced at $50.

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Father F. G. Bressani was in the country from 1642 to 1645, and in his _Breve Relatione d’alcune missioni de PP. della Compagnia di Giesu nella Nuova Francia_, Macerata, 1653, pp. iv, 127, he gave an account of the rise and progress of the Huron mission. He promised a map and plates, but they do not appear in the copies known, of which two are in the Carter-Brown (_Catalogue_, vol. ii. no. 750) and Lenox (_Contributions_, p. 8) libraries; and others were sold in the Brinley (no. 67) and O’Callaghan (no. 1,232) sales. Cf. Carayon, p. 1,317; Leclerc, no. 684 (350 francs); and Shea’s _Charlevoix_, p. 80. Père Martin had to bring a copy from Rome to make his French translation, _Relation abrégée de quelques missions ... dans la Nouvelle France_, Montreal, 1852. This version had the Creuxius map, as already stated; another of the Huron country (p. 280), and numerous notes, with a memoir of Bressani by the editor. Cf. Parkman’s _Jesuits_, p. 253, with references; Shea’s _Charlevoix_, ii. 174, with note, and his _Perils of the Ocean and Wilderness_, p. 104; O’Callaghan’s _New Netherland_; Archbishop Spalding’s _Miscellanea_.

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The first martyr of the Huron mission was Père Antoine Daniel, killed July 4, 1648 (Parkman’s _Jesuits_, p. 373). Field (_Indian Bibliography_, p. 146) says some curious, though perhaps not very authentic, information regarding the Hurons can be got from Sieur Gendron’s _Quelques Particularitéz du Pays des Hurons, par le Sieur Gendron_, which appeared in Davity’s _Déscription Générale de l’Amerique_, edited by Jean Baptiste de Rocoles, Troyes et Paris, 1660, and was reprinted in New York in 1868. Cf. Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 873; Lenox, p. 18; and Field, no. 598. A fac-simile of a corner map in Creuxius’s larger map, giving the Huron country, is given herewith. Parkman also gives a modern map with the missions and villages marked, and tells the fate of this people after their dispersement, at the end of his _Jesuits_. See _Canadian Monthly_, ii. 409.

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Dr. Shea gives the following list of martyrs among the Canadian Jesuits, with the dates of their deaths: Isaac Jogues, 1646; Antoine Daniel, 1648; Jean Brebeuf, Gabriel Lallemant, Charles Garnier, and Natalis Chabanel, 1649; Jacques Buteux, 1652; Leonard Garreau, 1656, and René Menard, 1661. And of the Sulpitians: Guillaume Vignal and Jacques Le Maître, 1661. _Les Jésuites-Martyrs du Canada_, Montreal, 1877, includes Martin’s translation of Bressani’s _Relation Abrégée_, and sections on the “Caractère des Sauvages et de leur pays,” on their conversion, and on the “Mort de Quelqes Pères.”

_1644-1645._—VIMONT. _Relation ... ès années 1644 et 1645._ Paris, 1646. Pages 8, 183, 1.

CONTENTS: Missions News; Incursions of the Five Nations; Letter from Lalemant about the Huron Mission, beginning on p. 136.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,274; Harrisse, no. 84; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 594; Lenox, p. 6; Dufossé, no. 8,663.

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_1645-1646._—HIEROSME LALEMANT. _Relation ... ès années 1644 et 1645._ Paris, 1647. Pages 6, 184, 128.

CONTENTS: Report,—Missions to the Iroquois; Jogues among the Mohawks; Huron Report by Paul Ragueneau, May, 1645, to May, 1646.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,275; Harrisse, no. 86; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,684; Carter-Brown, vol ii. no. 619; Lenox, p. 7; O’Callaghan, 1,224; Harrassowitz, 1883 (160 marks).

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Masse died May 12, 1646, and this _Relation_ contains an account of him.

From October, 1645, to June, 1668, there are journals of the Jesuit missionaries preserved in the archives of the Séminaire at Quebec, which give details not originally intended for the public eye, but which now form an interesting supplement to the series for the years 1645-1668, except that there is a gap between Feb. 5, 1654 and Oct. 25, 1656. These journals were printed at Quebec in 1871, as _Le Journal des Jésuites; publié par les Abbés Laverdière et Casgrain_. Cf. Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,009, where it is stated that the greater part of the edition was destroyed by fire. A continuation of this Journal was in the hands of William Smith, historian of Canada; but is now lost. The _Amer. Cath. Quarterly, U. S. Cath. Mag._, and _The Month_ contain various papers on the missions. See Poole’s _Index_.

=1647.=—HIEROSME LALEMANT. _Relation ... en l’année 1647._ Paris, 1648. Pages 8, 276; paging irregular from p. 209 to p. 228. Some copies have a repeated _de_ in the title.

CONTENTS: The Mission of Jogues among the Mohawks, and a narrative of his death begins p. 124; Missions among the Abenakis.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,276; Harrisse, no. 87; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,685; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 652; Lenox, p. 7; O’Callaghan, no. 1,225; Harrassowitz, 1883 (160 marks); Dufossé, no. 5,603 (190 francs).

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After Jogues’ captivity among the Mohawks, and his mutilations, and his rescue by the Dutch, he wrote an account of _Novum Belgium_ in 1643-1644, which remained in manuscript till Dr. Shea printed it with notes in 1862, as explained in a note to chap. ix. of the present volume. Jogues now went to France, but returned shortly to brave once more the perils of a missionary’s life, and this second venture he did not survive. His own account of this was preserved, according to Père Martin, in the archives of the College of Quebec down to 1800, and according to Dr. Shea passed into the hands of the English Government, and was used by Smith in compiling his _History of Canada_, Quebec, 1815, and has not been seen since. “It is given apparently in substance in the Relation of 1646.”—Shea’s _Charlevoix_, ii. 188.

Dr. Shea also edited in English the “Jogues Papers” in the _N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll._, 2d ser., vol. iii., including the account of Jogues’ captivity among the Mohawks; and he repeated the narrative in his _Perils of the Ocean and Wilderness_, p. 16. The original is a Latin letter, dated Rennselaerswyck, Aug. 5, 1643, of which there is a sworn copy preserved at Montreal, which differs somewhat from the printed copy as given in Alegambe’s _Mortes illustres_, Rome, 1667, p. 616 (Carayon, no. 79); and in Tanner’s _Societas Jesu_, Prague, 1675; and the German translation of it, _Die Gesellschaft Jesu_, Prague, 1683. Cf. Carter-Brown, vol. ii. nos. 1,136, 1,274; Field, _Indian Bibliography_, 1,530; Stevens, _Bibliotheca Hist._ 2,017. The letter is badly translated in Bressani’s _Breve Relatione_, p. 77, but Martin gives it better in his version of Bressani (p. 188). Details, more or less full, can be found in Andrada’s _Claros Varones_, Madrid, 1666; Creuxius, _Historia Canadensis_, pp. 338, 378; the Dutch _Church History_ of Hazart, vol. iv.; Barcia, _Ensayo Chronologico_, Madrid, 1723, p. 205; Carayon, _Première Mission_; the Bishop of Buffalo’s _Missions in Western New York_, Buffalo, 1862; and of course in Ferland, Parkman (_Jesuits_, pp. 106, 211, 217, 304), and the other modern historians. A portrait of Jogues is given in Shea’s edition of the _Novum Belgium_, and in his _Charlevoix_, ii. 141.

=1647-1648.=—HIEROSME LALEMANT. _Relation ... ès années 1647 et 1648._ Paris, 1649. Pages 8, 158, blank leaf, 135.

CONTENTS: Dreuillettes among the Abenakis; Huron Country Report by Ragueneau, with accounts of the Great Lakes and the Native Tribes upon them; The Five Nations; The Delawares (Andastes); New Sweden, Niagara Falls, etc.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,277; Harrisse, no. 89; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,686; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 673; Lenox, p. 7; O’Callaghan, no. 1,226; Sunderland, vol. iii. no, 7,218.

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Father Gabriel Dreuillettes, in the interest of the Abenakis mission, subsequently made a journey in 1651 to Boston, to negotiate a league between the New England colonies, the Canadian authorities and the Abenakis against the Iroquois. The papers appertaining were recovered by Dr. Shea and printed in New York in 1866, as _Recueil de Pièces sur la Négociation entre la Nouvelle France et la Nouvelle Angleterre ès années 1648 et suivantes_. A Latin letter from Dreuillettes to Winthrop, which makes a part of this book, had earlier been printed separately in 1864 by Dr. Shea, and again in 1869. The original manuscript was found among the Winthrop Papers, and is now in the cabinet of the Massachusetts Historical Society. (Field, _Indian Bibliography_, pp. 460, 461; Sabin, vol. v. p. 536; _N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll._, 2d ser., iii. 303.) Mr. Lenox also, still earlier, privately printed at Albany in 1855, after the original, “déposé parmi les papiers du Bureau des Biens des Jésuites à Québec,” Dreuillettes’ _Narré du Voyage_ (60 copies), as copied by Dr. Shea. Cf. Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 713; _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, iii. 34; xi. 152; Hutchinson’s _Massachusetts Bay_, i. 166; his _Collection of Papers_, p. 166; _Plymouth Colonial Records_, ix. 199; Parkman’s _Jesuits_, pp. 324, 330, and his references; Shea’s _Charlevoix_, i. 228, and ii. 214; Hazard’s _Collection_, ii. 183, 184; and _N. Y. Col. Doc._, ix. 6. The letter of the Council of Quebec and the commission given to the envoys sent to Boston, are also in _Massachusetts Archives; Documents Collected in France_, ii. 67, 69, where will also be found (iii. 21) a letter, dated Quebec, April 8, 1681, on the life and death of Druillettes.

=1648-1649.=—PAUL RAGUENEAU. _Relation ... ès années 1648 et 1649._ Paris, 1650. Pages 8, 103. There was a second issue, with larger vignette on title, and some additional pages to the Huron report, pp. 4, 114, 2.

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CONTENTS: Text signed by J. H. Chaumonot; the Huron mission; chaps. 4 and 5 give biographies of Brebeuf and Gabriel Lalemant, killed by the Iroquois.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,278; Harrisse, nos. 90, 91; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. nos. 695, 696; Lenox, p. 7; O’Callaghan, no. 1,228; Dufossé, 1880 (180 francs). Harrassowitz, 1883 (160 marks). The second issue was recently priced in New York at $60.

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=1648-1649.=—RAGUENEAU. _Relation_, etc.... Lille, 1650. Pages 121, 3. Follows the first Paris edition, but is of smaller size.

REFERENCES: Harrisse, no. 92; Lenox, p. 7.

COPIES: =HC.=, =L.=

=1648-1649.=—RAGUENEAU. _Narratio Historica_ ... Œniponti, 1650. Pages 24, 232, 3. A Latin translation by G. Gobat, somewhat abridged, and differently divided into chapters; smaller than the preceding edition.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,316; Harrisse, no. 93; Ternaux, no. 703; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 690; Lenox, p. 7; O’Callaghan, no. 1,227. Rich, 1832 (15 shillings).

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Further accounts of the martyrdom of Brebeuf and Lalemant will be found in most of the works mentioned under 1647, in connection with Jogues. Cf. also the _Mercure de France_, 1649, pp. 997-1,008; _Catholic World_, xiii. 512, 623; Le Père Martin’s _Le P. Jean de Brebeuf, sa vie, ses travaux, son Martyre_, Paris, 1877; Harrisse, p. 88; Shea’s _Charlevoix_, ii. 221, where is an engraving of a silver portrait bust of Brebeuf, sent by his relatives from Paris to enclose his skull (cf. Parkman’s _Jesuits_, p. 389), which is still preserved at Quebec. The accompanying engraving is made from a photograph kindly lent by Mr. Parkman. There are other engravings in Shea’s _Catholic Mission_, in his _Charlevoix_, ii. 221; and in the _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, ii. 171.

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=1649-1650.=—RAGUENEAU. _Relation ... depuis l’Esté de la année 1649 jusques à l’Esté de l’année 1650._ Paris, 1651. Pages 4, 178 (marked 187), 2. Page 171 has tailpiece of fruits. A second issue has typographical variations, with no tailpiece on p. 171, and on p. 178 a letter from the “Supérieure de l’Hospital de la Miséricorde de Kebec.”

CONTENTS: Ragueneau’s letter begins p. 1; Lalemant’s, p. 172; Letters of Buteux and De Lyonne; Huron Mission; Murders of Garnier and Noel Chabanel; Iroquois defeat of the Hurons, and a remnant of the latter colonized near Quebec.

REFERENCES: Carayon, nos. 1,279, 1,280; Harrisse, nos. 95, 96; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 719; Lenox, p. 8; Brinley, p. 139; Harrassowitz, 1883 (250 marks).

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Shea, _Charlevoix_, ii. 231, and Parkman, _Jesuits_, pp. 101, 406, 407, give references for Garnier. Cf. Bressani, _Breve Relatione_, and Martin’s translation of Bressani, for a table of thirty Jesuit and Recollect missionaries among the Hurons. Margry’s _Découvertes_, etc.,

## Part I., is on “Les Récollets dans le pays des Hurons, 1646-1687.”

Parkman, _Jesuits_, pp. 402, 430, saying that this Relation is the principal authority for the retreat of the Hurons to Isle St. Joseph, etc., gives other references.

=1650-1651.=—RAGUENEAU. _Relation ... ès années 1650 et 1651._ Paris, 1652. Pages 4, 146, 1.

CONTENTS: French Settlements and the Missions. A letter signed Martin Lyonne begins p. 139.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,281; Harrisse, no. 97; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 740; Lenox, p. 8; O’Callaghan, no. 1,229; Harrassowitz, 1883 (120 marks).

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=1651-1652.=—RAGUENEAU. _Relation ... depuis l’été de l’année 1651 jusques à l’été de l’année 1652._ Paris, 1653. Pages 8, 200.

CONTENTS: Chap. i. gives an account of the death of Buteux; Chap. ix., War with the Iroquois; Chap. x., Biography of La Mère Marie de Saint Joseph.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,282; Harrisse, no. 98; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 756; Lenox, p. 8; O’Callaghan, no. 1,231; Harrassowitz, 1883 (120 marks).

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The account of the Réligieuses Ursulines of Canada in this Relation was repeated, with additions, in pp. 229-315 of _La Gloire de S. Ursule_, Valenciennes, 1656. Cf. Harrisse, p. 106; Lenox, p. 8; also _Les Ursulines de Québec_, and Saint Foi’s _Premières Ursulines de France_.

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An account of the missions “in Canada sive Nova Francia” is the first section of the _Progressus fidei Catholicæ in novo orbe_, published at Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1653. The book is very rare; the only copy noted is in the Carter-Brown Collection, vol. ii. no. 758. The _Lenox Contribution_, p. 8., says there was a copy in O’Callaghan’s Collection, but I fail to find it in his sale catalogue; cf. Harrisse, p. 99.

=1652-1653.=—FRANÇOIS LEMERCIER. _Relation ... depuis l’été de l’année 1652 jusques à l’été de l’année 1653._ Paris, 1654. Pages 4, 184, 4.

CONTENTS: Montreal; Three Rivers; Poncet captured by the Mohawks; Fort Orange; Peace with the Iroquois.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,283; Harrisse, no. 101; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,992; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 775; Lenox, p. 8; O’Callaghan, no. 1,233; Harrassowitz, 1883 (120 marks).

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Montreal was organized as a colony in 1653. Cf. Faillon, vol. ii. chap. 10.

=1653-1654.=—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... ès années 1653 et 1654._ Paris, 1655. Pages 4, 176.

CONTENTS: Negotiations with the Five Nations; Le Moyne at Onondaga; Treaty of Peace, and Discovery of Salt Springs; Letter from the Hurons at the Isle d’Orléans with a translation.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,284; Harrisse, no. 103; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,993; Lenox, p. 8; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 799; O’Callaghan, no. 1,234; Harrassowitz, 1883 (120 marks); _Doc. Hist. N. Y._, i. 33

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Cf. L. P. Tarcotte’s _Histoire de l’ile Orléans_, Quebec, 1867, and N. H. Bowen’s _Isle of Orleans, 1860_.

=1655.=—_Copie de deux Lettres envoiées de la Nouvelle France._ Paris, 1656. Pages 28. The bearer of the Relation of this year was robbed in France, and only these two letters were recovered and printed. It, with the _Relation_ of 1660, is the rarest of the series.

REFERENCES: Harrisse, nos. 108, 425; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 813; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,974.

COPIES: Those in =L.= and in the Ste. Geneviève at Paris are the only ones known.

Mr. Lenox printed a fac-simile edition from his own copy, with double titles, showing variations; and of this there are copies in =CB.=, =HC.=, etc.

=1655-1656.=—JEAN DE QUENS. _Relation ... ès Années 1655 et 1656._ Paris, 1657. Pages 6, 168.

CONTENTS: A Letter signed by De Quens; Le Moyne among the Mohawks; The French at Onondaga; War between the Five Nations and Eries; Ottawas at Quebec; Murder of Garreau.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,285; Harrisse, no. 109; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 826; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,237.

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Cf. Tailhan, _Mémoires sur Perrot_, p. 229; and the references in Shea’s _Charlevoix_, vol. ii. Parkman says Perrot is in large part incorporated in La Potherie; cf. _Historical Magazine_, ix. 205.

=1656-1657.=—=Le Jeune.= _Relation ... ès années mil six cents cinquante six et mil six cens cinquante sept._ Paris, 1658. Pages 12, 211.

CONTENTS: Begins with a Letter signed by Le Jeune; The Senecas and the French; Mission to the Cayugas; Dupuis and the Jesuits among the Onondagas; Le Moyne among the Mohawks; Customs of the Five Nations; Chap. xxi. has a Letter signed by Le Mercier.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,280; Harrisse, no. 110; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,957; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 839; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,238; Harrassowitz, 1883 (125 marks). Recently priced at $60.

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=1657-1658.=—RAGUENEAU. _Relation ... ès années 1657 et 1658._ Paris, 1659. Pages 8, 136. Martin holds that this volume was made up in Paris.

CONTENTS: Two Letters from Ragueneau; French Settlements at Onondaga abandoned; Journal, 1655-1658, dated New Holland, March 25, 1658, and signed Simon Le Moine; Routes to Hudson’s Bay; Comparison of savage and European Customs.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,287; Harrisse, no. 112; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 859; Lenox, p. 9.

COPIES: =CB.=, =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=

On the French missions in New York, see Marie de l’Incarnation, _Lettres historiques_; Parkman’s _Old Régime_, chap. i.; O’Callaghan’s _New Netherland;_ Shea’s _Charlevoix_, vol. iii.; J. V. H. Clark’s _Onondaga_ (Syracuse, 1849); Charles Hawley’s _Early Chapters of Cayuga History, with the Jesuit Missions in Goi-o-gouen_, 1656-1684 (Auburn, 1879), with an Introduction by Dr. Shea. This last book has a map of the Iroquois territory and the mission sites, by J. S. Clark (reproduced on an earlier page).

=1659.=—LALLEMANT. _Lettres envoiées de la Nouvelle France._ Paris, 1660. Pages 49, 3.

CONTENTS: Arrival of a Bishop; Algonquin and Huron Missions; Acadia Mission. The three letters are dated, respectively, Sept. 12, Oct. 10, Oct. 16, 1659.

REFERENCES: Harrisse, no. 113; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,683; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,236.

COPIES: From what was supposed to be a unique copy (since burned in 1854), in the Parliamentary Library at Quebec, Mr. Lenox had a fac-simile made, from which he afterward printed, in 1854, his fac-simile edition; but Harrisse has since reported two copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale, at Paris. Harrassowitz, in his _Rarissima Americana_, no. 91, p. 5, notes a copy at 2,500 marks, which is now in Mr. Kalbfleisch’s Collection.

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De Laval landed at Quebec June 6, 1659, having been made Bishop of Petra and Vicar Apostolic of New France the previous year. He became Bishop of Quebec in 1674; resigned in 1688, and died in 1708. Parkman draws a distinct picture of his character in his _Old Régime_, chap. v., and describes his appearance from several portraits which are extant, one of which is engraved in Shea’s _Le Clercq_, ii. p. 50. A Life of him, by La Tour, was printed at Cologne in 1761; and an _Esquisse de la vie_, etc., at Quebec, in 1845. Two other publications are of interest: _Notice sur la fête à Quebec le 16 Juin, 1859, 200eme anniversaire de l’arrivée de Laval_, Quebec, 1859, and _Translation des Restes de Laval_, Quebec, 1878. Cf. Faillon, _Hist. de la Colonie Française_, ii. chap. 13, and Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 20, for references. In 1874 the second centennial of Laval’s becoming bishop was commemorated in a _Notice biographique_, by E. Langevin, “suivie de quarante-une lettres et notes historiques sur le Chapitre de la Cathédrale,” published at Montreal, 1874.

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The Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame were founded this year at Montreal, and the life of the foundress, Margaret Bourgeois, by Montgolfier, was published in Montreal in 1818; and was translated and published in English in New York in 1880. Another Life, said to be by the Abbé Faillon, was published in 1853. An earlier Life, by Ransonet, was published at Liege in 1728. Cf. Parkman’s _Jesuits_, p. 201, and Shea’s _Charlevoix_, vol. v., for her portrait.

The Abbé de Queylus, who was the candidate of the Sulpitians for the Bishopric, came over in 1657. (Faillon, ii. 271; La Tour, _Vie de Laval_, 19; Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 20; Parkman, _Old Régime_, 97.)

=1659-1660.=—(Not signed.) _Relation ... ès années mil six cent cinquante neuf et mil six cent soixante._ Paris, 1661. Pages 6, 202; paging irregular in parts.

CONTENTS: Letter from Menard; Country of the Five Nations, with Census of the Tribes; Saguenay River; Hudson’s Bay; Overthrow of the Hurons.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,288; Harrisse, no. 115: Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 895; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,239.

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For the dispersal of the Hurons, see Martin’s Bressani, App. p. 309; cf. Parkman’s _Jesuits_.

For the part relating to traders on Lake Superior in 1658, see translation, in Smith’s _Wisconsin_, iii. 20; cf. Margry, i. 53. Menard’s letter, Aug. 27, 1660, on the eve of his embarkation for Lake Superior, is translated in Minnesota Historical Society’s _Annals_, i. 20; and _Collections_, i. 135.

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=1660-1661.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation ... ès années 1660 et 1661._ Paris, 1662. Pages 8, 213, 3.

CONTENTS: Le Jeune’s Epistle to the King; War with the Iroquois; Peace with the Five Nations; Mission to Hudson’s Bay; “Journal du premier Voyage fait vers la Mer du Nort,” begins on page 62; Letters of Le Moyne from the Mohawk Country, and from a French Prisoner among the Mohawks.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,289; Harrisse, no. 117; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 907; Lenox, p. 10; O’Callaghan, no. 1,240; Harrassowitz, 1882 (125 marks). Recently priced in New York at $50.

COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =K.=, =L.=, =NY.=, =V.=

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=1661-1662.=—LALLEMANT. _Relation ... ès années 1661 et 1662._ Paris, 1663. Pages 8, 118, 1.

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CONTENTS: Letter dated Kebec, Sept. 18, 1662, signed Hierosme Lalemant; Disputes with two of the Five Nations; Murder of Vignal; Le Moyne among the Senecas.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,290; Harrisse, no. 119; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 929; Lenox, p. 10; O’Callaghan, no. 1,241; Quaritch, no. 12,365 (£8 10_s_.); Harrassowitz, 1882 (150 marks).

COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =J.=, =K.=, =L.=

Cf. Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 45, note.

=1662-1663.=—LALLEMANT. _Relation ... ès années 1662 et 1663._ Paris, 1664. Pages 16, 169, with some irregularity of paging.

CONTENTS: Meteorological Phenomena: Earthquake of 1663 [see Harrisse, p. 118] and Solar Eclipse, Sept. 1, 1663; War with the Iroquois; Outaouaks; Death of Menard.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,291; Harrisse, no. 121; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,688; Lenox, p. 10; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 950; O’Callaghan, no. 1,242; Dufossé, no. 5,602 (180 francs); Harrassowitz, 1882 (120 marks). Recently priced in New York at $50.

COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =K.=, =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=

Cf. Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 48, 57.

Menard had established a mission at St. Theresa Bay, Lake Superior, in 1661. Cf. Smith’s _Wisconsin_, vol. iii., for a translation; cf. further, on Menard, Perrot’s _Mœœurs des Sauvages; Historical Magazine_, viii. 175, by Dr. Shea, and his edition of _Charlevoix_, i. 49; _Minnesota Hist. Soc. Coll._, by E. D. Neill, i. 135. Cf. J. G. Shea on the “Indian Tribes of Wisconsin,” in the _Wisconsin Hist. Coll._, iii. 125; and a criticism by Alfred Brunson in vol. iv. p. 227.

=1663-1664.=—LALLEMANT. _Relation ... ès années 1663 et 1664._ Paris, 1665. Pages 8, 176, with some irregularities of paging.

CONTENTS: Missions among the Hurons, Algonquins, and Five Nations; War of the Mohawks; Iroquois Embassy to the French.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,292; Harrisse, no. 123; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,689; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 964; Lenox, p. 10.

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=1664-1665.=—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... ès années 1664 et 1665._ Paris, 1666. Pages 12, 128.

CONTENTS: M. de Tracy’s Voyage; Strength of the Five Nations; Comets; Vignal’s Death; Nouvel among the Savages. What is called a second issue has in addition a “Lettre de la R. Mère Supérieure des Réligieuses Hospitalières de Kebec du 23 Octobre, 1665,” 16 pp., which is not reprinted in the Quebec edition of the _Relations_. A map of Lakes Ontario, Champlain, and adjacent parts, with plans of the forts on the Richelieu River. A part of the map and plans of the forts are given herewith. Martin assigns these plans to the following _Relation_.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,293; Harrisse, nos. 124, 133; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,994; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no 978; Lenox, p. 10; O’Callaghan, no. 1,243; Dufossé, no. 2,175 (200 francs).

COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =L.= (both issues), =M.=, =OHM.=, =NY.=

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=1665-1666=.—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... aux années mil six cent soixante cinq et mil six cent soixante six._ Paris, 1667. Pages viii, 47, 16.

CONTENTS: Courcelles’ Expedition, January, 1666, against the Oneidas and Mohawks; De Tracy’s Interview with Garacontie, and his Expedition, September, 1666, against the Mohawks.

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REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,294; Harrisse, no. 126; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,995; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 992: Lenox, p. 10; Harrassowitz, 1882 (150 marks).

COPIES: =CB.=, without the “Lettre.” =K.=, with the “Lettre.”

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Harrisse says the copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Ste. Geneviève Libraries in Paris contain also a “Lettre de la Révérende Mère Supérieure des Réligieuses Hospitalières de Kebec, du 3 Octobre, 1666,” 16 pp., which is called for in the contents-tables of copies in which it fails, and it is not included in the Quebec edition of the _Relations. Historical Magazine_, iii. 20.

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=1666-1667=.—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... les années mil six cens soixante six et mil six cens soixante sept._ Paris, 1668. Pages 8, 160, 14. The title is without the usual vignette of storks.

[Illustration: THE FORTS.

A section in fac-simile of the map in the _Relation_ of 1662-63, showing the position of the forts. These may be compared with the _Carte dressée pour la Campagne de 1666_, accompanied by plans of forts Richelieu, St. Louis, and Ste. Thérèse, which Talon sent with his despatch of Nov. 11, 1665, and which is engraved in Faillon, _Histoire de la Colonie Française en Canada_, iii. 125, where will also be found a map to illustrate the campaign of 1666.]

CONTENTS: Allouez’ Journal to Lake Superior; The Pottawatomies and other Western Tribes; Missions to the Five Nations; Thomas Morel’s Account of the Wonders in the Church of St. Anne du Petit Cap. A second issue has appended, a “Lettre de la Révérende Mère Supérieure des Réligieuses Hospitalières de Kebec du 20 Octobre, 1667,” 14 pp., which is omitted in the Quebec edition of the _Relations_.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,295; Harrisse, no. 127; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,996; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,011; Lenox, p. 11; Harrassowitz, 1882, without the “Lettre” (100 marks).

COPIES: =CB.= (2d issue), =HC.= (2d issue), =J.=, =K.= (1st issue), L. (both), =M.=, =NY.= (1st issue), =V.=

A translation of Allouez’ journal is in Smith’s _Wisconsin_, vol. iii.; cf. Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 101, and his _Discovery of the Mississippi_, and _Catholic Missions_; Margry’s _Découvertes_, i. 57.

For the early missions in the far West, see _Wisconsin Hist. Soc. Coll_., vol. iii.; E. M. Sheldon’s _Early History of Michigan_; Lanman’s _Michigan_; James W. Taylor’s History of Ohio. Cf. Field’s _Indian Bibliography_, nos. 856, 1,398, 1,535, 1,688.

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It has been claimed that Archbishop Fénelon (b. 1651) may have been a missionary among the Iroquois from 1667 to 1674; cf. Robert Greenough in _N. Y. Hist. Soc. Proc_., 1848, p. 109; 1849, p. 11. A half-brother of Fénelon is known to have been in Montreal; cf. Abbé Verreau on “Les deux Abbés de Fénelon,” in the Canadian _Journal de l’Instruction publique_, vol. viii.; Parkman’s _Frontenac_, pp. 33, 43. The evidence fails to establish the proof of the Archbishop’s presence here. Cf. _N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg_. xvi. p. 344, and xvii. p. 246.

[Illustration: TRACY’S CAMPAIGN, 1666.

This sketch follows the principal part of a manuscript map in Mr. Parkman’s collection (No. 6) in Harvard College Library. It is called _Carte des grands lacs Ontario et Autres, et des costes de la Nouvelle Angleterre et des pays traversés par M^{rs}. de Tracy et Courcelles pour aller attaquer les Agnez_, 1666. Key:—

1. Saguenay. 2. Tadoussac. 3. Quebec. 4. R. du Sault de la Chaudiere. 5. R. des Etchemins. 6. Les 3 Rivières. 7. Fort de Richelieu. 8. R. St. François. 9. Fort de St. Louis. 10. Montreal. 11. Lac de St. Louis. 12. Lac des deux Montagnes. 13. Rivière par ou viennent les Outaouacs. 14. Lac St. François. 15. Sault. 16. Rapides. 17. Otondiala. 18. Ochouagen R. 19. Commencement du lac Champlain, ou est le fort S^a Anne du quel M. de Tracy escrit et est party le 4^{eme} Octobre, 1666. 20. Lac du St. Sacrement. 21. Habitations Iroquoises que les troupes du Roy doivent attaquer. Trois villages des Agniez Iroquois. 22. Petit village hollandais. 23. Orange Midy.

The _Catalogue_ of the Library of Parliament, 1858, p. 1614, gives a map, probably this one, as copied from the original in the archives at Paris.

Cf. on this campaign, Parkman’s _Old Régime_, p. 186. Harrisse, no. 125, following Faribault, no. 808, cites a _Journal de la Marche du Marquis de Tracy contre les Iroquois_, Paris, 1667, as an account of the third expedition against the Iroquois, of which Tracy took the command, Sept.-Nov., 1666, in person,—the earlier expeditions having been unsuccessful. Cf. documents in Margry, i. 169; Charlevoix, liv. ix., and Brodhead, vols. i. and ix. Cf. Colden’s _Five Nations_, and authorities enumerated by Shea in his _Charlevoix_, iii. 89, etc.]

=1667-1668.=—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... aux années mil six cens soixante-sept, et mil six cens soixante-huit._ Paris, 1669. Pages 8, 219. Has the stork vignette of the Cramoisy press on the title, and it is the last _Relation_ in which that sign is used.

CONTENTS: The several Missions; Drowning of Arent van Curler; Letter of De Petrée, Bishop of Quebec; Death of the Mère Cathérine de St. Augustin.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,296; Harrisse, no. 128; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,997; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,029; Lenox, p. 11.

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Père Paul Ragueneau’s _La Vie de la Mère Cathérine de St. Augustin_, was published at Paris in 1671. Cf. Harrisse, no. 133; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,069; Leclerc, 1878 (500 francs). There was an Italian translation printed at Naples in 1752.

=1668-1669.=—(No author.) _Relation ... les années 1668 et 1669._ Paris, 1670. Pages 2, 150 (last page 140 by error). The title vignette is a vase of flowers.

[Illustration: THE JESUIT MAP OF LAKE SUPERIOR.]

CONTENTS: Missions among the Five Nations; Letter from Governor Lovelace, “Gouverneur de Manhate,” from Fort James (New York), Nov. 18, 1668, to Father Pierron, on the sale of ardent spirits to the Indians.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,297; Harrisse, nos. 129, 530; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,049; Lenox, p. 11; O’Callaghan, no. 1,244.

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The question of selling liquor to the Indians was one of large political bearing at times. Cf. Faillon, iii. chap. 21.

=1669-1670.=—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... les années 1669 et 1670._ Paris, 1671. Pages 10, 3-318. Part i. pp. 3-108, in larger type than part ii. pp. 111-318.

CONTENTS: Missions to the Five Nations; The Iroquois and Algonquin Difficulties; The Mohawk and Mohegan War, 1669; The Père d’Ablon’s “Relation des Missions aux Ovtaovaks;” A chapter on the Dutch begins p. 145; Lake Superior and the Copper Mines; Letter from Jacques Marquette on the Western Tribes.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,298; Harrisse, no. 135; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,998; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,070; Lenox, p. 11; O’Callaghan, no. 1,245; Dufossé, no. 2,176 (200 francs).

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Translations of portions on Western explorations are in Smith’s _Wisconsin_, vol. iii.

=1670-1671.=—CLAUDE D’ABLON. _Relation ... les années 1670 et 1671._. Paris, 1672. Pages 16, 189, 1, with errors of paging. The title vignette is a basket of fruit.

CONTENTS: The Missions; The Western Country occupied by the French, and the Country described; the Mississippi River described from the Reports of the Indians.

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It has a folding map of Lake Superior (a fac-simile of it is annexed), of which, says Parkman (_La Salle_, pp. 30, 450), “the exactness has been exaggerated as compared with other Canadian maps of the day.” Bancroft (UNITED STATES, original edition, iii. 152) gives a reproduction of it. Others are in Whitney’s GEOLOGICAL REPORT OF LAKE SUPERIOR, and in Monette’s MISSISSIPPI. vol. i. Harrisse (no. 201) notes a map of Lake Superior, dated 1671, and preserved in Paris.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,290; Harrisse, no. 138; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,084; Lenox, p. 11; Dufossé, no. 2,177 (200 francs); Harrassowitz, 1882 (110 marks).

COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =K.= (without map), =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=

Cf. the “Relation de l’Abbé Gallinée” in Margry, _Découvertes_, etc., part i. p. 112, and separately with the Abbé Verreau’s notes, Montreal, 1875. St. Lusson’s ceremony in taking possession of the country on the Lakes is noted in _Ibid._ i. 96.

[Illustration: MADAME DE LA PELTRIE.

Copied from a photograph owned by Mr. Parkman of a painting of which there is an engraving in _Les Ursulines de Quebec_, i. 348.]

=1671-1672.=—D’ABLON. _Relation ... les années 1671 et 1672._ Paris, 1673. Pages 16, 264.

CONTENTS: Arrival of Frontenac; Huron and Iroquois, Lower Algonquin, and Hudson’s Bay Missions; Overland Journey from the Saguenay. On page 207 begins “La Sainte Mort de Madame de la Peltrie.”

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,300; Harrisse, nos. 139, 340; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,097; Lenox, p. 12; O’Callaghan, no. 1,246; Harrassowitz, 1882 (150 marks.)

COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.= (without map), =K.=, =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=, =V.=

Harrisse says the two copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale have the same map as the preceding _Relation_. O’Callaghan says all copies ought to have it. Lenox says the map in this edition is sometimes, but rarely, found with variations, the position of some of the missions being changed, and new stations added on the plate.

Parkman (_La Salle_, p. 29) speaks of the change now taking place in the character of the _Relations_, which are still “for the edification of the pious reader, filled with intolerably tedious stories of baptisms, conversions, and the exemplary deportments of neophytes; but they are relieved abundantly by more mundane subjects,— ... observations on the winds, currents, and tides of the Great Lakes, speculations on a subterranean outlet of Lake Superior, accounts of its copper mines,”[690] etc.

A _Life of Madame de la Peltrie_ (Magdalen de Chauvigny), by Mother St. Thomas, was published in New York in 1859.

A companion of Madame de la Peltrie was commemorated in _La Vie de la Vénérable Mère Marie de l’Incarnation, première Supérieure des Ursulines_ (Paris, 1677), by her son, Claude Martin. She was in Canada from 1639 to 1672. (Harrisse, no. 143; Lenox, pp. 13, 14; Dufossé, no. 6,763, 125 francs.) In 1681 a series of _Lettres de la Vénérable Mère Marie de l’Incarnation_ was printed, and they cover many historical incidents. (Harrisse, no. 148; Dufossé, no. 3,166, 110 francs.) A selection of them was published at Clermont Ferrand in 1837. Charlevoix published a Life of her in 1724; and in 1864 one by Casgrain was printed in Quebec, and in English at Cork in 1880. In 1873 the French text was included in _Œuvres de l’Abbé Casgrain_, tome i. Another by the Abbé Richardeau was printed at Tournai in 1873. There is a likeness of her in _Les Ursulines de Québec depuis leur Etablissement jusqu’a nos jours_. A. M. D. G. Quebec, 1863. 4 vols. Shea (_Charlevoix_, i. 82; ii. 101; iii. 184) enumerates other authorities: Juchereau, _Histoire de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec_. Another History of the Hôtel-Dieu, by Casgrain, was published in 1878. An account of steps to procure her canonization is in the _Catholic World_ (New York), August, 1878. Cf. Parkman’s _Jesuits_, 174, 177, 199, 206.

[The contemporary printing of these Relations stopped with this for 1671-1672. The series in continuation has since been printed in various forms, as follows.]

=1672-1679.=—_Mission du Canada; Relations inédites de la Nouvelle France_ (1672-1679), Paris, Ch. Douniol, 1861. 2 vols.; 2 maps, one of them a fac-simile of Marquette’s map. [These volumes are vols. iii. and iv. of _Voyages et Travaux des Missionaires de la Compagnie de Jésus_.]

Cf. Field. _Indian Bibliography_, p. 276; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,085, 1,198; Lenox, p. 14; O’Callaghan, no. 1,252.

=1673-1679.=—CLAUDE DABLON. _Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable aux Missions des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus en la Nouvelle France les années 1673 à 1679. A la Nouvelle York. De la Presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea_, 1860. Pages 13, 290, with Marquette’s map.

Martin describes the original manuscript (147 pages, pp. 109-118 wanting) preserved at Quebec as being divided into eight chapters. It has an account of the heroic death of Marquette. Cf. Field’s _Indian Bibliography_, no. 396; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,197; Lenox, p. 16.

Some misrepresentations having been made regarding the Cramoisy series of Dr. Shea, it is fair to say that the expense of the whole series was borne by himself alone. There are enumerations of the volumes in Field’s _Indian Bibliography_, the _Menzies Catalogue_, no. 1,811, and in the Brinley _Catalogue_, no. 146, etc.

=1672-1673.=—DABLON. _Relation_, etc. New York, 1861.

This concerns the missions to the Hurons near Quebec, to the Iroquois, and beyond the Great Lakes. It is also printed in the _Mission du Canada_, vol. i. Cf. Harrisse, nos. 597, 605; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,098; Field, no. 1,070; Lenox, p. 17.

=1673-1674.=—DABLON. _Relation_, etc. In the _Mission du Canada_; and an English translation is in the _Historical Magazine_, v. 237.

=1673-1675.= _Récit des Voyages et des Découvertes du R. Père Jacques Marquette, de la Compagnie de Jésus, en l’année 1673 et aux suivantes: La Continuation de ses Voyages par le R. P. Claude Allouez, et Le Journal autographe du P. Marquette en 1674 et 1675. Avec la Carte de son Voyage tracée de sa main._

Printed for Mr. Lenox after the original manuscript preserved in the Collége Ste. Marie at Montreal. Cf. O’Callaghan, no. 1,246a; Carter-Brown, ii. 1,126; Lenox, p. 12.

=1675.=—“État présent des missions pendant l’année 1675,” in the _Mission du Canada_, vol. ii.

=1676-1677.=—_Relation ... ès années 1676 et 1677. Imprimée pour la première fois, selon la copie du MS. original restant à l’Université Laval, Québec._ [Albany, 1854.] Pages 2, 165.

CONTENTS: Missions among the Iroquois, Outaouacs, and at Tadousac.

This _Relation_ was printed for Mr. Lenox. Cf. Lenox, p. 13; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,172; O’Callaghan, nos. 1,247, 1,975.

=1677-1678.=—_Relation_, etc. This is printed in the _Mission du Canada_, i. 193.

CONTENTS: Joliet’s account of his Journey with Marquette, and their discovery of the Mississippi in 1673, as edited by Père Dablon, with an account of a third journey to the Country of the Illinois, by Claude Allouez.

An English version of Allouez’ journal is given in Shea’s _Mississippi Valley_, p. 67, with a sketch of the missionary’s life. Cf. Margry’s “Notice sur le Père Allouez, 1665-71,” in his _Découvertes_, etc., Part I. p. 59. For Joliet and Marquette, see chap. vi.

=1684.=_—Copie d’une Lettre escrite par le Père Jacques Bigot, de la Compagnie de Jésus, l’an 1684._ Manate [New York], 1858.

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The letter was written in behalf of the Abenakis of the St. Francis de Sales mission, to accompany offerings to the tomb of their patron saint at Annecy. The original letter is preserved in the Archives du Monastère de la Visitation à Annecy. Cf. Harrisse, no. 725; Lenox, p. 17; O’Callaghan, no. 1,972; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,278.

=1684.=—JACQUES BIGOT. _Relation ... l’année 1684._ À Manate, 1857 (100 copies).

The Abenakis mission of St. Joseph de Sillery and the new mission of St. Francis de Sales, and follows the original manuscript in the Collége Ste. Marie. Cf. Harrisse, no. 726; Field, no. 130; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,277; Lenox, p. 15.

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=1685.=—BIGOT. _Relation ... l’année 1685._ À Manate, 1858.

The St. Joseph de Sillery and St. Francis de Sales missions, and follows the original manuscript in the Collége Ste. Marie. Cf. Harrisse, no. 727; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,307; Lenox, p. 15; Field, no. 131.

=1688.=—JEAN DE ST. VALIER (Evêque de Québec). _Relation des Missions de la Nouvelle France._ Paris, 1688.

REFERENCES: Harrisse, no. 159; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. nos. 1,366, 1,367; O’Callaghan, no. 2,218; Sunderland, no. 268; Lenox, pp. 12, 13.

COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =L.=, etc.

This work has sometimes the following title instead: _Estat présent de l’Eglise et de la Colonie Françoise dans la Nouvelle France._ De St. Valier had succeeded De Laval, but before consecration visited the country, and wrote this account of it.[691]

=1688.=—J. M. CHAUMONOT. _Vie, écrite par lui-même, 1688._ New York, 1858.

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One of Dr. Shea’s Cramoisy series. The original manuscript is preserved in the Hôtel-Dieu, Quebec. It was followed by _Suite de la vie de P. M. J. Chaumonot, par un père de la Compagnie_, believed by Dr. Shea to be Rale. This was printed at New York in 1858, and continues the story to 1693. Cf. Carayon, _Le Père Chaumonot_; also, Harrisse, no. 753; Lenox, p. 16; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. nos. 1,348, 1,349; Field, no. 288.

=1690-1691.=—PIERRE MILET. _Relation de sa Captivité parmi les Onneiouts en 1690-91._ Nouvelle York, 1864.

Cf. Lenox, p. 17; Harrisse, no. 776; Field, p. 274. It follows a copy found in Holland by Henry C. Murphy. See Vol. III. p. 415.

=1693-1694.=—JACQUES GRAVIER. _Relation ... depuis le Mois de Mars, 1693, jusqu’en Février, 1694._ À Manate, 1857.

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The mission of the Immaculate Conception among the Illinois. Cf. Lenox, p. 15; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,466; Field, no. 622.

E. Carré, the minister of the French Church in Boston, printed in 1693, with a preface by Cotton Mather, _Eschantillon de la doctrine que les Jésuites enseignent aux Sauvages du nouveau monde_, drawn from a manuscript found at Albany. Sabin, vol. iii. no. 11,040.

=1696-1702.=—_Relation des Affaires du Canada en 1696; avec des lettres des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus, depuis 1696 jusqu’en 1702._ Nouvelle York [Shea], 1865.

It was printed from copies of manuscripts preserved at Paris, made for H. C. Murphy, and covers the war with the Iroquois, the Sault St. Xavier, and other missions. A portion of it appeared without authority the same year, as _Relation des affaires du Canada en 1696, et des Missions des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus jusqu’en 1702_. Cf. Field, p. 325; Lenox, p. 17; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,489.

=1700.=—_Relation ou Journal du Voyage du R. P. Jacques Gravier en 1700, depuis le pays des Illinois jusqu’à l’Embouchure du Mississippi._ Nouvelle York, 1859.

Printed by Dr. Shea as one of his series, and translated by Shea in his _Early Voyages up and down the Mississippi_ (Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,604). Dr. Shea also printed in 1861 De Montigny de St. Cosme and Thaumur de la Source’s _Relation de la Mission du Mississippi du Séminaire de Québec en 1700_, giving an account of the attempt of the Quebec Seminary to found missions on the lower Mississippi. Cf. Field, no. 1,084; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,619. An English version is in Shea’s _Early Voyages_, etc.

=1701.=—BIGOT. _Relation ... dans la mission des Abnaquis à l’Acadie, 1701._ Manate [Shea] 1858.

Cf. Field, p. 33; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,628. Shea also printed _Relation_ (1702) in 1865.

=1717-1776.=—_Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères._ 32 vols. in 34 parts.

REFERENCES: Carayon, p. 55; Field, no. 919; Brunet, p. 1028; _Catalogue Library of Parliament_, 1858, p. 1192; Shea’s _Charlevoix_, p. 88; Sabin, vol. x. pp. 294, 395; Muller, _Books on America_, (1877), no. 3,680.

This serial contains various accounts supplementing the Jesuit Relations: as under 1712, Father Marest’s voyage to Hudson’s Bay in 1694-1695 with D’Iberville; under 1722 and 1724, much about Rale, etc.

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As regards the date, 1717, for the beginning of this series, Dr. Shea writes:—

“This date, though generally given, is, I am convinced, erroneous. The first Recueil was approved by the Provincial in 1702, and obtained the Royal license to print Aug. 23, 1702. The approval of vol. iii. is dated in 1703. It is clear that vol. i. must have appeared in 1702 or 1703. I possess a translation of vol. i. in English: ‘Edifying and Curious Letters of some Missioners, of the Society of Jesus, from Foreign Missions. Printed in the Year 1707. 16º.’ Of course the French preceded this translation.”

Brunet says it is not easy to find the series complete. A second edition, Paris, 1780-1783, is in twenty-six volumes, but the prefaces and dedications of the original volumes are not included. There were other issues in 1819 and 1839. Stöcklein’s _Brief-Schriften_, etc., 1726-1756, is in part a translation, with much else besides. Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 390, and vol. iii. no. 994, where a Spanish translation is noted.

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