chapter v

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[694] [Dr. Hawley says, in a note in his _Early Chapters of Cayuga History_, page 15, that this name is derived from _onnonte_, a mountain, and was given by the Hurons and Iroquois to Montmagny, governor of Canada, 1636-1648, as a translation of his name (_mons magnus_), and was applied to his successors, while the King of France was called _Grand Onontio_.—ED.]

[695] [See narrative in chap. vi. Margry (i. 195) gives the “Voyage du Comte de Frontenac au lac Ontario, en 1673,” with letters appertaining. Cf. _N. Y. Col. Doc._, ix. 95.—ED.]

[696] Abbé Salignac de Fénelon was a half brother of the author of _Télémaque_. Hildreth appears in doubt about him, and says: “Could this have been the Abbé and Saint Sulpitian priest of the same name, afterward so famous in the world of religion and letters? If so, his two years’ missionary residence in Canada seems to have been overlooked by his biographers. Yet he might have gathered there some hints for _Telemachus_.” See the “Note on the Jesuit Relations,” _sub anno_ 1666-1667. Perrot’s character is drawn in Faillon (iii. 446) from the Sulpitian side.

[697] [Margry (i. 405) gives an account of the deliberations on the selling of liquor to the savages, which were held at Quebec Oct. 10, 1678.—ED.]

[698] Auteuil’s house was situated about two leagues away from Quebec. Villeray went to the Isle of Orleans, and Tilly took up his quarters at the house of M. Juchereau, of St. Denis, near Quebec.

[699] [Duchesneau issued in 1681, at Quebec, a Memoir on the tribes from which peltries were derived. An English translation of this is in 2 _Pennsylvania Archives_, vi. 7.—ED.]

[700] See chap. iv.

[701] [A _Mémoire_ (Nov. 12, 1685) _du Marquis de Denonville sur l’État du Canada, 12 Novembre_, is in Brodhead, _N. Y. Col. Docs._, ix. 280; and an English translation is in 2 _Pennsylvania Archives_, vi. 24. Various other documents of this period are referred to in the _Notes Historiques_ of Harrisse’s _Notes_, etc.—ED.]

[702] [Cf. chap. vi. For this campaign against the Senecas, see Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 286 (and his authorities); Parkman’s _Frontenac_ (references p. 156); Denonville’s Journal, translated in _N. Y. Col. Docs._, vol. ix.; St. Vallier, _État Présent_; Belmont, _Histoire du Canada_; La Hontan; Tonty; Perrot; La Potherie; and the statements of the Senecas, in _N. Y. Col. Docs._, vol. iii. Squier’s _Aboriginal Monuments of New York_ gives a plan of the Seneca fort; and O. H. Marshall identifies its site in 2 _N. Y. Hist. Coll._, vol. ii.—ED.]

[703] [Margry (i. 37) gives a statement, made in 1712 by Vaudreuil and Bégon, collating the _Relations_ from 1646 to 1687, to show the right of the French to the Iroquois country. Denonville’s _Mémoire_ (1688), on the limits of the French claim, is translated in 2 _Pennsylvania Archives_, vi. 36. The _Mémoire_ of the King, addressed to Denonville, explanatory of the claim, is translated in French’s _Historical Collections_, 2d series, i. 123. The _Catalogue_ of the Canadian Parliament, 1858, p. 1617. no. 39, shows a large map of the French possessions, defining their boundaries by the English, copied from an original in the French archives. The claim was pressed of an extension to the Pacific. See Greenhow’s _Oregon_, p. 159.—ED.]

[704] [There is in the _Massachusetts Archives: Documents collected in France_, iv. 7, a paper dated Versailles, 10 Mai, 1690, entitled “Projet d’une Expédition contre Manat et Baston,” which is accompanied by a map showing the coast from New York to the Merrimack, in its relation to Lakes Champlain and Ontario. The English towns are marked “bourg;” only “Baston” is put down by name. See Notes following chap. iv.—ED.]

[705] [French armed vessels had also attacked Block Island, _Historical Magazine_vii. 324.—ED.]

[706] The Editor is indebted to Francis Parkman, Esq., for the use of a fac-simile of the contemporary manuscript plan (preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris), of which the topographical part is shown, somewhat reduced, in the annexed fac-simile (Parkman’s _Frontenac_, p. 285). The rest of the sheet contains the following:—

“Plan de Québec, et de les environs, en la Nouvelle France, Assiegé par les Anglois, le 16 d’Octobre, 1690, jusqu’au 22 du dit mois qu’ils sen allerent, apprés avoir este bien battus, par M^r. Le Comte de Frontenac, gouverneur general du Pays.

“Les noms des habitans et des principaux Endroits de Quebec.

1. Maison Seigneurial de beauport. 2. pierre parent le Perre. 3. Jacque parent le fils. 4. aux R. P. Jesuistes. 5. pierre parent le fils. 6. la vefve de mathieu choset. 7. michel huppé. 8. M^r. de la Durantaye, Conseiller. 9. la vefve de paul chalifou. 10. M^r. de Vitray, Conceiller. 11. François retor. 12. M^r. denis. 13. Estienne lionnois. 14. M^r. Roussel. 15. Jean le normand. 16. Jean landron, ou est la briqueterie. 17. Joseph rancourt. 18. André coudray. 19. Jean le normand. 20. M^r. de St. Simeon. 21. le petit passage. 22. Le fort St. Louis, ou loge M^r. le comte de frontenac. 23. n^{tre} dame, et le Seminaire. 24. hospice des R. P. Recolletz. 25. les R. P. Jesuistes. 26. les Ursulines. 27. l’hospital. 28. les filles de la Congregation. 29. Mr. de Villeray, premier Conseiller. 30. batterie de huict pieces. 31. Le Cul de Sac, ou les barques, et petits vaisseaux hivernent. 32. platte forme ou est une batterie de 3 p. 33. Place ou est le buste du Roy, pozé sur un pied d’estal, en 1686, par Mr. de Champigny, Intendant. 34. M^r. de la Chesnays. 35. autre batterie de trois pieces. 36. autre batterie de trois pieces. 37. le Palais ou logent l’Intendant, le greffier du Conseil Souverain, et ou sont aussy les Prisons. 38. boulangerie a M^r. de la Chesnays. 39. la Maison blance a M^r. de la Chesnay. 40. moulin a M^r. de la Chesnays. 41. moulin au Roy. 42. moulins aux R. P. Jesuistes. 43. Maison a M^r. Talon, autrefois Intendant du Pays. 44. N^{tre}. dame des anges. 45. Vincent poirié. 46. L’Esuesché, a M^r. de St. Vallier. 47. Jardin de M^r. de frontenac. 48. Moulin a M^r. du Pont, ou est une batterie de trois pieces. 49. louis begin. 50. Jacque Sanson. 51. Pesche aux R. P. Jesuistes. 52. pierre Leyzeau. 53. Mathurin choüet, ou est un four a chaux. 54. batterie de trois pieces pour deffendre le passage de la petitte R^r.. 55. Canots, pour la decouverte pendant la nuit.

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Par le s^r de Villeneuve ingénieur du Roy.”

Harrisse, _Notes_, etc., no. 243, cites this plan, and, no. 244, refers to a map of a little different title by Villeneuve, preserved in the Dépôt des Fortifications des Colonies at Paris. Leclerc, _Bibliotheca Americana_, no. 2,652, notes another early manuscript copy of this plan (Harrisse’s no. 243) in a collection of maps of the 18th century, which he prices at 800 francs. He calls the plan “tres belle carte manuscrite et inédite,” not aware of the reduced engraving of it issued by Van der Aa, of which there is a copy in a collection of maps (no. 50) formed by Frederick North, and now in Harvard College Library.

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