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Jogues, Isaac 1607-
Missionary; born at Orleans, France, Jan. 10, 1607; became a Jesuit at Rouen in 1624; was ordained in 1636; and, at his own request, was immediately sent to Canada.
He was a most earnest missionary among the Indians on both sides of the Lakes.
Caught, tortured, and made a slave by the Mohawks, he remained with them until 1643, when he escaped to Albany, and was taken to Manhattan.
Returning to Europe, he was shipwrecked on the English coast.
He returned to Canada in 1646, where he concluded a treaty between the French and the Mohawks.
Visiting Lake George, he named it St. Sacrament, and, descending the Hudson River to Albany, he went among the Mohawks as a missionary, who seized and put him to death as a sorcerer, at Caughnawaga, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1646.
St. Sacrament Lake,
A former name of Lake George; a beautiful sheet of water lying west of the upper end of Lake Champlain; originally named by Father Jogues, a Jesuit missionary who visited it about the middle of the seventeenth century.
This lake was the theatre of important military events in the French and Indian War (q. v.) and the Revolutionary War. At the head of the lake Gen. Sir William Johnson was encamped early in September, 1755, with a body of provincial troops and a party of Indians under the Mohawk chief Hendrick.
There he was attacked (Sept. 8) by the French under Dieskau, and would have been defeated but for the energy and skill of Gen. Phineas Lyman.
The assailants were repulsed, and their leader (Dieskau) was badly wounded, made prisoner, sent to New York, and paroled.
He died of his wounds not long afterwards.
Johnson was knighted, and gave the name of Lake George to the sheet of water, in honor of his sovereign, by which name it is still known.
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