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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marquette, Jacques 1637- (search)
uth of a small stream that bore his name long afterwards, he prepared to die there. His attendants (two Frenchmen) bore him tenderly to a bed of leaves in the shadows of the forest. Then, asking for some holy water which he had prepared, and taking a crucifix from his neck and placing it in the hand of one of his companions, he desired him to keep it constantly before his eyes while he lived. With clasped hands he pronounced aloud the profession of his faith, and soon afterwards died, May 18, 1675. His companions buried him near, and erected a cross at his grave. His remains were afterwards taken to Mackinaw, where they still repose. Marquette at Lake Michigan. The following account of his arrival at the lake of the Ilinois is from his Narrative: After a month's navigation down the Mississippi, from the 42d to below the 34th degree, and after having published the gospel as well as I could to the nations I had met, we left the village of Akamsea on July 17, 1673, to ret
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
Mississippi River from the mouth of the Wisconsin to the Arkansas. Returning, they ascend the Illinois, making their way to Lake Michigan via the Desplaines and Chicago rivers......1673 Marquette, purposing to establish a mission among the Illinois Indians, makes a portage from the Chicago to the Desplaines, descends the Illinois River nearly to Utica, where he meets a large concourse of chiefs and warriors......April 8, 1675 Father Claude Allouez, successor to Marquette, who died May 18, 1675, enters the Chicago River on his way to the Indian mission......April, 1676 Robert Cavalier Sieur de la Salle, with Henry Tonti, Father Hennepin, and a party of thirty-three, descending the Kankakee and Illinois rivers, pass through Peoria Lake, Jan. 3, 1680, and erect Fort Crevecoeur on the east shore of the outlet......1680 Father Hennepin descends the Illinois from the fort to explore the upper Mississippi......Feb. 28, 1680 La Salle, returning from Montreal with supplies fo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
h a permanent mission at Sault Ste. Marie......1668 Two Sulpician priests, with three canoes and seven men, pass through the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair......1670 French under M. de St. Lusson permitted to occupy Sault Ste. Marie by the Indians, erect a cross at that place bearing the arms of France......May, 1671 Marquette commences Fort Michilimackinac, starts a Huron settlement, and builds a chapel there......1671 Marquette is buried near present site of Ludington......May 18, 1675 Robert la Salle, accompanied by Father Louis Hennepin and Chevalier de Tonti, sails up lakes Erie and Huron in the Griffon, reaching Michilimackinac......Aug. 28, 1679 Antoine de la Motte Cadillac, lord of Bouaget and Montdesert, under a commission from Louis XIV., leaving Montreal in June with 100 men and a Jesuit missionary, commences the settlement of Detroit......July 24, 1701 First grant of land (thirty-two acres) made at Detroit by Cadillac to Francois Fafard Delorme......