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ence, Relation 1669, 70, p. 11. sprung from Marquette himself. He had resolved on Ibid. 53. attemiddle age to die away. In the same year, Marquette gathered the wander- 1671. ing remains of oanch of the Potawatomies, familiar with Mar Marquette, in Thevenot, and in Hennepin, Eng. ed. 1696prairie; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with the spare Charlevoix, III. 397. into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet were the first white men who trodn astonished crowd. At the great council, Marquette published to them the one true God, their Crrds. I did not 1673. July fear death, says Marquette; I should have esteemed it the greatest happans since the days of De Soto. Now, thought Marquette, we must, indeed, ask the aid of the Virgin. Florida, nor yet to the Gulf of California, Marquette and Joliet left Akansea, and ascended the Mi will build his monument. At the death of Marquette, there dwelt at the outlet of Lake Ontario, [8 more...]
n, in 1700, Tonti again descended the Missis- 1700 sippi, he was attended by twenty Canadian residents in Illinois. The oldest permanent European settlement in the valley of the Mississippi, is the village of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin, or Kaskaskia, the seat of a Jesuit mission, which gradually became a central point of French colonization. We know that Marest, in Lett. Ed. IV. 208. Father Gravier was its founder, but it is not easy to fix the date of its origin. Marquette had been followed by Allouez, who, in 1684, may have been at Rock Fort, but who was chiefly a missionary to the Miamis, among whom he died. Gravier followed Allouez, but in what year is unknown. Sebastian Rasles, after a short residence among the Abenakis, received orders to visit the west; and, from his own narrative, it Rasles, in Lett Ed. T. IV. is plain that, after passing a winter at Mackinaw, he, in the spring of 1693, repaired to Illinois, where he remained two years before exch
. The Illinois were kindred to the Miamis, and their country lay between the Wabash, the Ohio, and the Mississippi. Marquette found a village of them on the Des Moines, but its occupants soon withdrew to the east of the Mississippi; and Kaskaskiate of Mississippi, was the land of the cheerful, brave Chickasas, the faithful, the invincible allies of the English. Marquette found them already in possession of guns, obtained probably through Virginia; La Salle built Fort Prudhomme on one of tfter America began to be colonized by Europeans. From the portage between the Fox and the Wisconsin to the Des Moines, Marquette saw neither the countenance nor the footstep of man. In Illinois, so friendly to the habits of Le Clereq, Etablissemenation of the aborigines of America to those Chap. XXII.} before whom they have fled. We are men, said the Illinois to Marquette. After illustrating the weaknesses of the Wyandots, Brebeuf adds, They are men. The natives of America were men and w
g to lay any thing to heart that was at so great a distance. Thus did England permit the French to establish Chap. XXIII.} their influence along the banks of the Alleghany to the Ohio. They had already quietly possessed themselves of the three other great avenues from the St. Lawrence to the Mississippi; for the safe possession of the route by way of the Fox and Wisconsin, they had no opponents but in the Sacs and Foxes; that by way of Chicago had been safely pursued since the days of Marquette; and a report on Indian affairs, written by Logan, in 1718, proves that they very early made use of the Keith's Ms. Memorial. Miami of the Lakes, where, after crossing the carryingplace of about three leagues, they passed the summit level, and floated down a shallow branch into the Wabash and the Ohio. Upon this line of communication the French established a post; and of the population of Vincennes, a large part trace their lineage to early emigrants from Canada. Yet, as of Kaskaskia, s
Pring, 113. By Weymouth, 114. By Argall, 148. Colonized by English, 268. Granted in part to the Pilgrims, 320. To Gorges, 328. Colonized, 331, 336. Its court organized, 337. Early history, 428. Annexed to Massachusetts, 430. Royal commissioners in, II. 86. Indian war, 210. New government, 114. Indian war, III. 180, 335. Maintenon, Madame de, II. 175; III. 323. Manhattan occupied, II. 272. Manigault, Judith, II. 180. Marest, Gabriel, II. 196. Markham, III. 40. Marquette, Father, III. 152, 157, 161. Maryland, discovery of, 236. First charter, 241. Freedom of conscience, 244. Catholics settle at St. Mary's, 247. Clayborne's claims, 248. Ingle's rebellion, 254. Act for religious liberty, 255. During the commonwealth, 258. During the protectorate, 260. Power of the people asserted, 264. After the restoration, II. 234. Baltimore's mild sway, 236. Baconists obtain influence, 241. Effect of the revolution of 1688, III. 30. Protestant association,