Chapter VI (3)

See Harrisse, no. 30, on the question of an earlier edition in 1612. The Supplément of Brunet calls this 1612 edition spurious. (Carayon, p. 178; Lenox, p. 4, for a copy, with title in fac-simile by Pilinski, which yet cost 1,000 francs, as per Leclerc, no. 2,482.) A reprint, “presque en fac-simile,” was made at Albany in 1871 from a copy owned by Rufus King, of Jamaica, L. I. The Carter-Brown (vol. ii. no. 178) has only this fac-simile, and it is noted in O’Callaghan, nos. 1,207, 1,971, where it is stated only twenty-five were printed, at $25 per copy.

=1626.=—_Coppie de la lettre escripte par le R. P. Denys Jamet, Commissaire des PP. Recollestz de Canada._ Dated Quebec, Aug. 15, 1626.

REFERENCES: Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 315. Dr. Shea thinks the date should be 1620. It is from Sagard, p. 58.

=1626.=—_Relation de ce qui s’est passé en la Nouvelle France, 1626. Envoyée au Père Hierosme L’Allemant par Charles L’Allemant._ Paris, 1629. Reprinted (no. 7) in O’Callaghan’s series, from the text in _Mercure François_, vol. xiii.

REFERENCES: Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 351; O’Callaghan, nos. 1,210, 1,250, 1,982; Lenox, p. 19. Le Clercq doubts L’Allemant’s authorship; but see Shea’s _Le Clercq_, i. 329.

=1627.=—_Lettre du Père Charles l’Allemant, Supérieur de la mission de Canadas_, Paris, 1627. It bears date Aug. 1, 1626.

REFERENCES: Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,680; Harrisse, no. 41; Faribault, no. 361; Ternaux, no. 496; Carayon, p. 179; Lenox, p. 4; O’Callaghan, no. 1,250.

It was reprinted in 1871 in O’Callaghan’s series. (Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 328; O’Callaghan, no. 1,208.) It first appeared in the _Mercure François_, xiii. 1. This last publication appeared in Paris, 1611-1646, in twenty-three volumes, and contains much illustrative of these early missions. There are sets of the _Mercure_ in the Boston Athenæum, Harvard College, Carter-Brown, Boston Public libraries, etc. The reprint of L’Allemant’s _Lettre_ in the Quebec edition of the _Relations_, follows the text of the _Mercure_, which corresponds, as is not always the case of these early _Relations_, with the contemporary separate text, as Mr. Lenox has pointed out in the _Historical Magazine_, iii. 19. Carayon, in his _Première Mission_, translates from another letter of L’Allemant, preserved at Rome, and of the same date, another account of these early Jesuit labors, which he sent to Père Vitelleschi. L’Allemant’s name in the contemporary publications is spelled with a single or double _l_, indifferently.

Another of O’Callaghan’s series (Albany, 1870), was _Copie de trois Lettres escrittes en 1625 et 1626 par le P. Charles Lallemand_. O’Callaghan, nos. 1,209, 1,250; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 316.

=1629.=—_Lettre du Rev. Père l’Allemand au Rev. Père Supérieur du Collège des Jésuites à Paris, 22 Novembre, 1629._ It is found in Champlain’s _Voyages_, and a reprint (no. 3) is in O’Callaghan’s series, Albany, 1870. O’Callaghan, nos. 1,250, 1,979; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,681; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 390; Carayon, p. 179; Lenox, p. 18. It is translated in Shea’s _Perils of the Ocean and Wilderness_.

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[The regular series of so-called RELATIONS, addressed to the Provincial of the order in France, begins here.]

=1632.=—LE JEUNE. _Brieve Relation du Voyage de la Nouvelle France, fait au mois d’Avril dernier, par le P. Paul le Jeune._ Paris, 1632. Pages 68, one leaf for the Privilege.

CONTENTS: The arrival and reinstatement of the order in Quebec, with notices of the natives.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,260; Harrisse, no. 49; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,946. Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 381, with fac-simile of title.

COPIES: =CB.=, =GB.=, =M.= Others in the Arsenal and National Libraries at Paris, etc.

It was reprinted in the _Mercure François_ for 1633.

=1633.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation de ce qui s’est passé en la Nouvelle France en l’année 1633._ Paris, 1634. Pages 216 and Privilege, with a cupid in the vignette, and errors of pagination. A second issue has a ram’s head for a vignette, and some typographical variations. These vignettes are at the top of p. 3; that with two storks is on the titlepage.

CONTENTS: Champlain’s arrival, and that of Brebeuf and Masse; Le Jeune’s difficulties with the native language.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,261; Harrisse, nos. 55, 56; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,947-48; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 417; O’Callaghan, no. 1,212. (2d issue).

COPIES: =CB.=, =GB.=, =HC.= (3d issue), =M.=

There is an abridgment in the _Mercure François_ for 1633.

=1634.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation ... en l’année 1634._ Paris, 1635. Pages 4, 342, with pp. 321-22 numbered 323-24. A second issue corrects p. 321, but makes 337 to be 339.

CONTENTS: Champlain’s Domestic Life; Labors of Missionaries; Habits of Indians, and (chap. 9) Account of their Languages; Le Jeune’s Journal, August, 1633, to April, 1634, while he was living with the savages.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,263. Harrisse, nos. 60, 61; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,949; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 307; Lenox, p. 4; O’Callaghan, no. 1,235; Harrassowitz (1882, 180 marks).

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=1635.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation ... en l’année 1635._ Paris, 1636. Pages 4, 246, 2.

CONTENTS: Report, dated August 28, 1635, ending on p. 112; Report from the Huron country by Brebeuf, with “divers sentimens.” Report from Cape Breton by Perrault.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,264; Harrisse, nos. 58, 63; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 436; Lenox, p. 5; Sabin, vol. x. nos. 39,950, 39,951; O’Callaghan, no. 1,214; Leclerc, no. 778 (140 francs). Priced (1883), $50.

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=1635.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation_, etc. Avignon, 1636.

CONTENTS: Same as the Paris edition.

REFERENCES: Harrisse, no 64; Lenox, p. 5.

COPIES: The Lenox _Contributions_ claims its copy as the only one now known; if so, a third edition is represented in a defective copy noted in O’Callaghan, no. 1,215.

=1636.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation ... en l’année 1636._ Paris, 1637. Pages 8, 272, 223.

CONTENTS: Report; Death of Champlain, etc.; Brebeuf’s Huron report, with account of the language, customs, etc.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,265; Harrisse, no. 65; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,952; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 446; Lenox, p. 5; Harrassowitz, 1883 (125 marks).

COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =K.=, =L.= It does not appear whether copies =GB.=, =M.=, =OHM.=, and =V.= are of this or of the following edition.

=1636.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation_, etc. Paris, 1637. Pages 199 in smaller type than the preceding edition; the Huron report sometimes wanting, though mentioned in the title, while it was not mentioned in the preceding edition; but Sobolewski describes a copy which has this Huron report, occupying 163 pages.

REFERENCES: Harrisse, no. 66; Lenox, p. 5.

=1637.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation ... en l’année 1637._ Rouen, 1638. Pages 10,336 (pp. 193-196 omitted in paging), 256, with vignette of I. H. S. supported by two angels on the title. A second issue has the I. H. S. surrounded by rays, and there are other typographical changes in the title only. A folding woodcut of fireworks between pp. 18 and 19.

CONTENTS: Report about the missions and the Huron Seminary near Quebec; Report by Lemercier from the Huron country, dated 1637.

REFERENCES: Harrisse, nos. 67, 68; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,953; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 457; Lenox, p. 5; O’Callaghan, no. 1,216; Harrassowitz, 1880 (150 francs); Leclerc, 779 (200 francs).

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Harrisse, p. xiv, says the oldest original document he has found is a memorandum of a gift, August 16, 1637, by the Duchesse d’Aiguillon to the Réligieuses Hospitalières of Quebec (cf. also his no. 457).

=1638.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation ... en l’année 1638._ Paris, 1638. Pages 4, 78, 2, 68. A second edition has pp. 4, 78, 76. Harrisse says it is distinguishable by the last page being marked 67, correctly, and page 39 of the Huron report having the word _fidelle_ instead of _fidèle_; but the whole volume is reset.

CONTENTS: Report,—Failure of the Huron Seminary; Persecution of the Fathers; Lemercier’s Report from the Huron Country, 1637-38, with account of Lunar Eclipse, December, 1637.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,267; Harrisse, nos. 69, 70; Sabin, vol. x. nos. 39,954, 39,955; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 458; Lenox, p. 5; O’Callaghan, no. 1,217; Stevens, _Bibl. Hist._, no. 1,120; Harrassowitz, 1883 (125 marks).

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Harrisse, p. 62, says a Latin version is included “dans le recueil du P. Trigaut, Cologne, 1653.”

=1639.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation ... en l’année 1639._ Paris, 1640. Pages 8, 166, 2, 174. A second edition was a page-for-page reprint, with typographical changes on almost every page. The Privilege on the first reads, _Par le Roy en son Conseil_, and is signed March 26, 1638; the word _son_ is omitted in the second, and the date of this is Dec. 20, 1639.

CONTENTS: Regular Report; Huron Report, June, 1638, to June, 1639.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,268; Harrisse, nos. 74, 75; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,956; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. pp. 481, 482; Lenox, p. 6; O’Callaghan, no. 1,218; Harrassowitz, 1883 (125 marks).

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=1640.=—VIMONT. _Relation ... en l’année_ M. DC. XL. Paris, 1641. Pages 8, 197, 3, 196; but 191 and 192 are repeated.

CONTENTS: Report on the State of the Colony and the Missions; Report from the Huron Country by Hierosme Lalemant, mentioning a map of the Western country by Ragueneau.

REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,269; Harrisse, no. 76; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. p. 495; Lenox, p. 6; O’Callaghan, no. 1,219; Dufossé, no. 8,660 (125 francs); Harrassowitz, 1883 (125 marks).

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We derive the earliest mention of Jean Nicolet’s explorations about Green Bay from this _Relation_, and what it says is translated in Smith’s _Wisconsin_, vol. iii. See 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.

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.

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_.

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.

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.

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.

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=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.

=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.,