Part I., is on “Les Récollets dans le pays des Hurons, 1646-1687.
Parkman, _Jesuits_, pp. 402, 430, saying that this Relation is the principal authority for the retreat of the Hurons to Isle St. Joseph, etc., gives other references.
=1650-1651.=—RAGUENEAU. _Relation ... ès années 1650 et 1651._ Paris, 1652. Pages 4, 146, 1.
CONTENTS: French Settlements and the Missions. A letter signed Martin Lyonne begins p. 139.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,281; Harrisse, no. 97; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 740; Lenox, p. 8; O’Callaghan, no. 1,229; Harrassowitz, 1883 (120 marks).
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=1651-1652.=—RAGUENEAU. _Relation ... depuis l’été de l’année 1651 jusques à l’été de l’année 1652._ Paris, 1653. Pages 8, 200.
CONTENTS: Chap. i. gives an account of the death of Buteux; Chap. ix., War with the Iroquois; Chap. x., Biography of La Mère Marie de Saint Joseph.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,282; Harrisse, no. 98; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 756; Lenox, p. 8; O’Callaghan, no. 1,231; Harrassowitz, 1883 (120 marks).
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, (two copies), =K.=, _L._, _V._
The account of the Réligieuses Ursulines of Canada in this Relation was repeated, with additions, in pp. 229-315 of _La Gloire de S. Ursule_, Valenciennes, 1656. Cf. Harrisse, p. 106; Lenox, p. 8; also _Les Ursulines de Québec_, and Saint Foi’s _Premières Ursulines de France_.
An account of the missions “in Canada sive Nova Francia” is the first section of the _Progressus fidei Catholicæ in novo orbe_, published at Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1653. The book is very rare; the only copy noted is in the Carter-Brown Collection, vol. ii. no. 758. The _Lenox Contribution_, p. 8., says there was a copy in O’Callaghan’s Collection, but I fail to find it in his sale catalogue; cf. Harrisse, p. 99.
=1652-1653.=—FRANÇOIS LEMERCIER. _Relation ... depuis l’été de l’année 1652 jusques à l’été de l’année 1653._ Paris, 1654. Pages 4, 184, 4.
CONTENTS: Montreal; Three Rivers; Poncet captured by the Mohawks; Fort Orange; Peace with the Iroquois.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,283; Harrisse, no. 101; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,992; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 775; Lenox, p. 8; O’Callaghan, no. 1,233; Harrassowitz, 1883 (120 marks).
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =K.=, =L.=, =M.=, =OHM.=
Montreal was organized as a colony in 1653. Cf. Faillon, vol. ii. chap. 10.
=1653-1654.=—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... ès années 1653 et 1654._ Paris, 1655. Pages 4, 176.
CONTENTS: Negotiations with the Five Nations; Le Moyne at Onondaga; Treaty of Peace, and Discovery of Salt Springs; Letter from the Hurons at the Isle d’Orléans with a translation.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,284; Harrisse, no. 103; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,993; Lenox, p. 8; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 799; O’Callaghan, no. 1,234; Harrassowitz, 1883 (120 marks); _Doc. Hist. N. Y._, i. 33
COPIES: =CB.=, =F.=, =HC.=, =J.=, =K.=, =L.=, =M.=, =OHM.=, _NY._.
Cf. L. P. Tarcotte’s _Histoire de l’ile Orléans_, Quebec, 1867, and N. H. Bowen’s _Isle of Orleans, 1860_.
=1655.=—_Copie de deux Lettres envoiées de la Nouvelle France._ Paris, 1656. Pages 28. The bearer of the Relation of this year was robbed in France, and only these two letters were recovered and printed. It, with the _Relation_ of 1660, is the rarest of the series.
REFERENCES: Harrisse, nos. 108, 425; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 813; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,974.
COPIES: Those in =L.= and in the Ste. Geneviève at Paris are the only ones known.
Mr. Lenox printed a fac-simile edition from his own copy, with double titles, showing variations; and of this there are copies in =CB.=, =HC.=, etc.
=1655-1656.=—JEAN DE QUENS. _Relation ... ès Années 1655 et 1656._ Paris, 1657. Pages 6, 168.
CONTENTS: A Letter signed by De Quens; Le Moyne among the Mohawks; The French at Onondaga; War between the Five Nations and Eries; Ottawas at Quebec; Murder of Garreau.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,285; Harrisse, no. 109; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 826; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,237.
COPIES: =CB.=, =GB.=, =HC.=, =L.=, =M.=
Cf. Tailhan, _Mémoires sur Perrot_, p. 229; and the references in Shea’s _Charlevoix_, vol. ii. Parkman says Perrot is in large part incorporated in La Potherie; cf. _Historical Magazine_, ix. 205.
=1656-1657.=—=Le Jeune.= _Relation ... ès années mil six cents cinquante six et mil six cens cinquante sept._ Paris, 1658. Pages 12, 211.
CONTENTS: Begins with a Letter signed by Le Jeune; The Senecas and the French; Mission to the Cayugas; Dupuis and the Jesuits among the Onondagas; Le Moyne among the Mohawks; Customs of the Five Nations; Chap. xxi. has a Letter signed by Le Mercier.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,280; Harrisse, no. 110; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,957; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 839; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,238; Harrassowitz, 1883 (125 marks). Recently priced at $60.
COPIES: =CB.=, =GB.=, =HC.=, =K.=, =L.=, =NY.=
=1657-1658.=—RAGUENEAU. _Relation ... ès années 1657 et 1658._ Paris, 1659. Pages 8, 136. Martin holds that this volume was made up in Paris.
CONTENTS: Two Letters from Ragueneau; French Settlements at Onondaga abandoned; Journal, 1655-1658, dated New Holland, March 25, 1658, and signed Simon Le Moine; Routes to Hudson’s Bay; Comparison of savage and European Customs.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,287; Harrisse, no. 112; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 859; Lenox, p. 9.
COPIES: =CB.=, =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=
On the French missions in New York, see Marie de l’Incarnation, _Lettres historiques_; Parkman’s _Old Régime_, chap. i.; O’Callaghan’s _New Netherland;_ Shea’s _Charlevoix_, vol. iii.; J. V. H. Clark’s _Onondaga_ (Syracuse, 1849); Charles Hawley’s _Early Chapters of Cayuga History, with the Jesuit Missions in Goi-o-gouen_, 1656-1684 (Auburn, 1879), with an Introduction by Dr. Shea. This last book has a map of the Iroquois territory and the mission sites, by J. S. Clark (reproduced on an earlier page).
=1659.=—LALLEMANT. _Lettres envoiées de la Nouvelle France._ Paris, 1660. Pages 49, 3.
CONTENTS: Arrival of a Bishop; Algonquin and Huron Missions; Acadia Mission. The three letters are dated, respectively, Sept. 12, Oct. 10, Oct. 16, 1659.
REFERENCES: Harrisse, no. 113; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,683; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,236.
COPIES: From what was supposed to be a unique copy (since burned in 1854), in the Parliamentary Library at Quebec, Mr. Lenox had a fac-simile made, from which he afterward printed, in 1854, his fac-simile edition; but Harrisse has since reported two copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale, at Paris. Harrassowitz, in his _Rarissima Americana_, no. 91, p. 5, notes a copy at 2,500 marks, which is now in Mr. Kalbfleisch’s Collection.
De Laval landed at Quebec June 6, 1659, having been made Bishop of Petra and Vicar Apostolic of New France the previous year. He became Bishop of Quebec in 1674; resigned in 1688, and died in 1708. Parkman draws a distinct picture of his character in his _Old Régime_, chap. v., and describes his appearance from several portraits which are extant, one of which is engraved in Shea’s _Le Clercq_, ii. p. 50. A Life of him, by La Tour, was printed at Cologne in 1761; and an _Esquisse de la vie_, etc., at Quebec, in 1845. Two other publications are of interest: _Notice sur la fête à Quebec le 16 Juin, 1859, 200eme anniversaire de l’arrivée de Laval_, Quebec, 1859, and _Translation des Restes de Laval_, Quebec, 1878. Cf. Faillon, _Hist. de la Colonie Française_, ii. chap. 13, and Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 20, for references. In 1874 the second centennial of Laval’s becoming bishop was commemorated in a _Notice biographique_, by E. Langevin, “suivie de quarante-une lettres et notes historiques sur le Chapitre de la Cathédrale,” published at Montreal, 1874.
The Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame were founded this year at Montreal, and the life of the foundress, Margaret Bourgeois, by Montgolfier, was published in Montreal in 1818; and was translated and published in English in New York in 1880. Another Life, said to be by the Abbé Faillon, was published in 1853. An earlier Life, by Ransonet, was published at Liege in 1728. Cf. Parkman’s _Jesuits_, p. 201, and Shea’s _Charlevoix_, vol. v., for her portrait.
The Abbé de Queylus, who was the candidate of the Sulpitians for the Bishopric, came over in 1657. (Faillon, ii. 271; La Tour, _Vie de Laval_, 19; Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 20; Parkman, _Old Régime_, 97.)
=1659-1660.=—(Not signed.) _Relation ... ès années mil six cent cinquante neuf et mil six cent soixante._ Paris, 1661. Pages 6, 202; paging irregular in parts.
CONTENTS: Letter from Menard; Country of the Five Nations, with Census of the Tribes; Saguenay River; Hudson’s Bay; Overthrow of the Hurons.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,288; Harrisse, no. 115: Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 895; Lenox, p. 9; O’Callaghan, no. 1,239.
COPIES: =CB.=, =F.=, =GB.=, =HC.=, =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=
For the dispersal of the Hurons, see Martin’s Bressani, App. p. 309; cf. Parkman’s _Jesuits_.
For the part relating to traders on Lake Superior in 1658, see translation, in Smith’s _Wisconsin_, iii. 20; cf. Margry, i. 53. Menard’s letter, Aug. 27, 1660, on the eve of his embarkation for Lake Superior, is translated in Minnesota Historical Society’s _Annals_, i. 20; and _Collections_, i. 135.
=1660-1661.=—LE JEUNE. _Relation ... ès années 1660 et 1661._ Paris, 1662. Pages 8, 213, 3.
CONTENTS: Le Jeune’s Epistle to the King; War with the Iroquois; Peace with the Five Nations; Mission to Hudson’s Bay; “Journal du premier Voyage fait vers la Mer du Nort,” begins on page 62; Letters of Le Moyne from the Mohawk Country, and from a French Prisoner among the Mohawks.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,289; Harrisse, no. 117; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 907; Lenox, p. 10; O’Callaghan, no. 1,240; Harrassowitz, 1882 (125 marks). Recently priced in New York at $50.
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =K.=, =L.=, =NY.=, =V.=
=1661-1662.=—LALLEMANT. _Relation ... ès années 1661 et 1662._ Paris, 1663. Pages 8, 118, 1.
CONTENTS: Letter dated Kebec, Sept. 18, 1662, signed Hierosme Lalemant; Disputes with two of the Five Nations; Murder of Vignal; Le Moyne among the Senecas.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,290; Harrisse, no. 119; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 929; Lenox, p. 10; O’Callaghan, no. 1,241; Quaritch, no. 12,365 (£8 10_s_.); Harrassowitz, 1882 (150 marks).
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =J.=, =K.=, =L.=
Cf. Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 45, note.
=1662-1663.=—LALLEMANT. _Relation ... ès années 1662 et 1663._ Paris, 1664. Pages 16, 169, with some irregularity of paging.
CONTENTS: Meteorological Phenomena: Earthquake of 1663 [see Harrisse, p. 118] and Solar Eclipse, Sept. 1, 1663; War with the Iroquois; Outaouaks; Death of Menard.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,291; Harrisse, no. 121; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,688; Lenox, p. 10; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 950; O’Callaghan, no. 1,242; Dufossé, no. 5,602 (180 francs); Harrassowitz, 1882 (120 marks). Recently priced in New York at $50.
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =K.=, =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=
Cf. Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 48, 57.
Menard had established a mission at St. Theresa Bay, Lake Superior, in 1661. Cf. Smith’s _Wisconsin_, vol. iii., for a translation; cf. further, on Menard, Perrot’s _Mœurs des Sauvages; Historical Magazine_, viii. 175, by Dr. Shea, and his edition of _Charlevoix_, i. 49; _Minnesota Hist. Soc. Coll._, by E. D. Neill, i. 135. Cf. J. G. Shea on the “Indian Tribes of Wisconsin,” in the _Wisconsin Hist. Coll._, iii. 125; and a criticism by Alfred Brunson in vol. iv. p. 227.
=1663-1664.=—LALLEMANT. _Relation ... ès années 1663 et 1664._ Paris, 1665. Pages 8, 176, with some irregularities of paging.
CONTENTS: Missions among the Hurons, Algonquins, and Five Nations; War of the Mohawks; Iroquois Embassy to the French.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,292; Harrisse, no. 123; Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,689; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 964; Lenox, p. 10.
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=
=1664-1665.=—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... ès années 1664 et 1665._ Paris, 1666. Pages 12, 128.
CONTENTS: M. de Tracy’s Voyage; Strength of the Five Nations; Comets; Vignal’s Death; Nouvel among the Savages. What is called a second issue has in addition a “Lettre de la R. Mère Supérieure des Réligieuses Hospitalières de Kebec du 23 Octobre, 1665,” 16 pp., which is not reprinted in the Quebec edition of the _Relations_. A map of Lakes Ontario, Champlain, and adjacent parts, with plans of the forts on the Richelieu River. A part of the map and plans of the forts are given herewith. Martin assigns these plans to the following _Relation_.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,293; Harrisse, nos. 124, 133; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,994; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no 978; Lenox, p. 10; O’Callaghan, no. 1,243; Dufossé, no. 2,175 (200 francs).
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =L.= (both issues), =M.=, =OHM.=, =NY.=
=1665-1666=.—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... aux années mil six cent soixante cinq et mil six cent soixante six._ Paris, 1667. Pages viii, 47, 16.
CONTENTS: Courcelles’ Expedition, January, 1666, against the Oneidas and Mohawks; De Tracy’s Interview with Garacontie, and his Expedition, September, 1666, against the Mohawks.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,294; Harrisse, no. 126; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,995; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 992: Lenox, p. 10; Harrassowitz, 1882 (150 marks).
COPIES: =CB.=, without the “Lettre.” =K.=, with the “Lettre.”
Harrisse says the copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Ste. Geneviève Libraries in Paris contain also a “Lettre de la Révérende Mère Supérieure des Réligieuses Hospitalières de Kebec, du 3 Octobre, 1666,” 16 pp., which is called for in the contents-tables of copies in which it fails, and it is not included in the Quebec edition of the _Relations. Historical Magazine_, iii. 20.
=1666-1667=.—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... les années mil six cens soixante six et mil six cens soixante sept._ Paris, 1668. Pages 8, 160, 14. The title is without the usual vignette of storks.
CONTENTS: Allouez’ Journal to Lake Superior; The Pottawatomies and other Western Tribes; Missions to the Five Nations; Thomas Morel’s Account of the Wonders in the Church of St. Anne du Petit Cap. A second issue has appended, a “Lettre de la Révérende Mère Supérieure des Réligieuses Hospitalières de Kebec du 20 Octobre, 1667,” 14 pp., which is omitted in the Quebec edition of the _Relations_.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,295; Harrisse, no. 127; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,996; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,011; Lenox, p. 11; Harrassowitz, 1882, without the “Lettre” (100 marks).
COPIES: =CB.= (2d issue), =HC.= (2d issue), =J.=, =K.= (1st issue), L. (both), =M.=, =NY.= (1st issue), =V.=
A translation of Allouez’ journal is in Smith’s _Wisconsin_, vol. iii.; cf. Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iii. 101, and his _Discovery of the Mississippi_, and _Catholic Missions_; Margry’s _Découvertes_, i. 57.
For the early missions in the far West, see _Wisconsin Hist. Soc. Coll_., vol. iii.; E. M. Sheldon’s _Early History of Michigan_; Lanman’s _Michigan_; James W. Taylor’s History of Ohio. Cf. Field’s _Indian Bibliography_, nos. 856, 1,398, 1,535, 1,688.
It has been claimed that Archbishop Fénelon (b. 1651) may have been a missionary among the Iroquois from 1667 to 1674; cf. Robert Greenough in _N. Y. Hist. Soc. Proc_., 1848, p. 109; 1849, p. 11. A half-brother of Fénelon is known to have been in Montreal; cf. Abbé Verreau on “Les deux Abbés de Fénelon,” in the Canadian _Journal de l’Instruction publique_, vol. viii.; Parkman’s _Frontenac_, pp. 33, 43. The evidence fails to establish the proof of the Archbishop’s presence here. Cf. _N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg_. xvi. p. 344, and xvii. p. 246.
=1667-1668.=—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... aux années mil six cens soixante-sept, et mil six cens soixante-huit._ Paris, 1669. Pages 8, 219. Has the stork vignette of the Cramoisy press on the title, and it is the last _Relation_ in which that sign is used.
CONTENTS: The several Missions; Drowning of Arent van Curler; Letter of De Petrée, Bishop of Quebec; Death of the Mère Cathérine de St. Augustin.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,296; Harrisse, no. 128; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,997; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,029; Lenox, p. 11.
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.= (2 copies) =L.=, =M.=, =OHM.=, =NY.=
Père Paul Ragueneau’s _La Vie de la Mère Cathérine de St. Augustin_, was published at Paris in 1671. Cf. Harrisse, no. 133; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,069; Leclerc, 1878 (500 francs). There was an Italian translation printed at Naples in 1752.
=1668-1669.=—(No author.) _Relation ... les années 1668 et 1669._ Paris, 1670. Pages 2, 150 (last page 140 by error). The title vignette is a vase of flowers.
CONTENTS: Missions among the Five Nations; Letter from Governor Lovelace, “Gouverneur de Manhate,” from Fort James (New York), Nov. 18, 1668, to Father Pierron, on the sale of ardent spirits to the Indians.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,297; Harrisse, nos. 129, 530; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,049; Lenox, p. 11; O’Callaghan, no. 1,244.
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =L.=, =M.=, =OHM.=, =NY.=
The question of selling liquor to the Indians was one of large political bearing at times. Cf. Faillon, iii. chap. 21.
=1669-1670.=—LEMERCIER. _Relation ... les années 1669 et 1670._ Paris, 1671. Pages 10, 3-318. Part i. pp. 3-108, in larger type than part ii. pp. 111-318.
CONTENTS: Missions to the Five Nations; The Iroquois and Algonquin Difficulties; The Mohawk and Mohegan War, 1669; The Père d’Ablon’s “Relation des Missions aux Ovtaovaks;” A chapter on the Dutch begins p. 145; Lake Superior and the Copper Mines; Letter from Jacques Marquette on the Western Tribes.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,298; Harrisse, no. 135; Sabin, vol. x. no. 39,998; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,070; Lenox, p. 11; O’Callaghan, no. 1,245; Dufossé, no. 2,176 (200 francs).
Copies: =CB.=, =F.=, =HC.=, =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=, =V.=
Translations of portions on Western explorations are in Smith’s _Wisconsin_, vol. iii.
=1670-1671.=—CLAUDE D’ABLON. _Relation ... les années 1670 et 1671._. Paris, 1672. Pages 16, 189, 1, with errors of paging. The title vignette is a basket of fruit.
CONTENTS: The Missions; The Western Country occupied by the French, and the Country described; the Mississippi River described from the Reports of the Indians.
It has a folding map of Lake Superior (a fac-simile of it is annexed), of which, says Parkman (_La Salle_, pp. 30, 450), “the exactness has been exaggerated as compared with other Canadian maps of the day.” Bancroft (UNITED STATES, original edition, iii. 152) gives a reproduction of it. Others are in Whitney’s GEOLOGICAL REPORT OF LAKE SUPERIOR, and in Monette’s MISSISSIPPI. vol. i. Harrisse (no. 201) notes a map of Lake Superior, dated 1671, and preserved in Paris.
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,290; Harrisse, no. 138; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,084; Lenox, p. 11; Dufossé, no. 2,177 (200 francs); Harrassowitz, 1882 (110 marks).
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =K.= (without map), =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=
Cf. the “Relation de l’Abbé Gallinée” in Margry, _Découvertes_, etc., part i. p. 112, and separately with the Abbé Verreau’s notes, Montreal, 1875. St. Lusson’s ceremony in taking possession of the country on the Lakes is noted in _Ibid._ i. 96.
=1671-1672.=—D’ABLON. _Relation ... les années 1671 et 1672._ Paris, 1673. Pages 16, 264.
CONTENTS: Arrival of Frontenac; Huron and Iroquois, Lower Algonquin, and Hudson’s Bay Missions; Overland Journey from the Saguenay. On page 207 begins “La Sainte Mort de Madame de la Peltrie.”
REFERENCES: Carayon, no. 1,300; Harrisse, nos. 139, 340; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,097; Lenox, p. 12; O’Callaghan, no. 1,246; Harrassowitz, 1882 (150 marks.)
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.= (without map), =K.=, =L.=, =M.=, =NY.=, =V.=
Harrisse says the two copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale have the same map as the preceding _Relation_. O’Callaghan says all copies ought to have it. Lenox says the map in this edition is sometimes, but rarely, found with variations, the position of some of the missions being changed, and new stations added on the plate.
Parkman (_La Salle_, p. 29) speaks of the change now taking place in the character of the _Relations_, which are still “for the edification of the pious reader, filled with intolerably tedious stories of baptisms, conversions, and the exemplary deportments of neophytes; but they are relieved abundantly by more mundane subjects,— ... observations on the winds, currents, and tides of the Great Lakes, speculations on a subterranean outlet of Lake Superior, accounts of its copper mines,”[690] etc.
A _Life of Madame de la Peltrie_ (Magdalen de Chauvigny), by Mother St. Thomas, was published in New York in 1859.
A companion of Madame de la Peltrie was commemorated in _La Vie de la Vénérable Mère Marie de l’Incarnation, première Supérieure des Ursulines_ (Paris, 1677), by her son, Claude Martin. She was in Canada from 1639 to 1672. (Harrisse, no. 143; Lenox, pp. 13, 14; Dufossé, no. 6,763, 125 francs.) In 1681 a series of _Lettres de la Vénérable Mère Marie de l’Incarnation_ was printed, and they cover many historical incidents. (Harrisse, no. 148; Dufossé, no. 3,166, 110 francs.) A selection of them was published at Clermont Ferrand in 1837. Charlevoix published a Life of her in 1724; and in 1864 one by Casgrain was printed in Quebec, and in English at Cork in 1880. In 1873 the French text was included in _Œuvres de l’Abbé Casgrain_, tome i. Another by the Abbé Richardeau was printed at Tournai in 1873. There is a likeness of her in _Les Ursulines de Québec depuis leur Etablissement jusqu’a nos jours_. A. M. D. G. Quebec, 1863. 4 vols. Shea (_Charlevoix_, i. 82; ii. 101; iii. 184) enumerates other authorities: Juchereau, _Histoire de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec_. Another History of the Hôtel-Dieu, by Casgrain, was published in 1878. An account of steps to procure her canonization is in the _Catholic World_ (New York), August, 1878. Cf. Parkman’s _Jesuits_, 174, 177, 199, 206.
[The contemporary printing of these Relations stopped with this for 1671-1672. The series in continuation has since been printed in various forms, as follows.]
=1672-1679.=—_Mission du Canada; Relations inédites de la Nouvelle France_ (1672-1679), Paris, Ch. Douniol, 1861. 2 vols.; 2 maps, one of them a fac-simile of Marquette’s map. [These volumes are vols. iii. and iv. of _Voyages et Travaux des Missionaires de la Compagnie de Jésus_.]
Cf. Field. _Indian Bibliography_, p. 276; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,085, 1,198; Lenox, p. 14; O’Callaghan, no. 1,252.
=1673-1679.=—CLAUDE DABLON. _Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable aux Missions des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus en la Nouvelle France les années 1673 à 1679. A la Nouvelle York. De la Presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea_, 1860. Pages 13, 290, with Marquette’s map.
Martin describes the original manuscript (147 pages, pp. 109-118 wanting) preserved at Quebec as being divided into eight chapters. It has an account of the heroic death of Marquette. Cf. Field’s _Indian Bibliography_, no. 396; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,197; Lenox, p. 16.
Some misrepresentations having been made regarding the Cramoisy series of Dr. Shea, it is fair to say that the expense of the whole series was borne by himself alone. There are enumerations of the volumes in Field’s _Indian Bibliography_, the _Menzies Catalogue_, no. 1,811, and in the Brinley _Catalogue_, no. 146, etc.
=1672-1673.=—DABLON. _Relation_, etc. New York, 1861.
This concerns the missions to the Hurons near Quebec, to the Iroquois, and beyond the Great Lakes. It is also printed in the _Mission du Canada_, vol. i. Cf. Harrisse, nos. 597, 605; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,098; Field, no. 1,070; Lenox, p. 17.
=1673-1674.=—DABLON. _Relation_, etc. In the _Mission du Canada_; and an English translation is in the _Historical Magazine_, v. 237.
=1673-1675.= _Récit des Voyages et des Découvertes du R. Père Jacques Marquette, de la Compagnie de Jésus, en l’année 1673 et aux suivantes: La Continuation de ses Voyages par le R. P. Claude Allouez, et Le Journal autographe du P. Marquette en 1674 et 1675. Avec la Carte de son Voyage tracée de sa main._
Printed for Mr. Lenox after the original manuscript preserved in the Collége Ste. Marie at Montreal. Cf. O’Callaghan, no. 1,246a; Carter-Brown, ii. 1,126; Lenox, p. 12.
=1675.=—“État présent des missions pendant l’année 1675,” in the _Mission du Canada_, vol. ii.
=1676-1677.=—_Relation ... ès années 1676 et 1677. Imprimée pour la première fois, selon la copie du MS. original restant à l’Université Laval, Québec._ [Albany, 1854.] Pages 2, 165.
CONTENTS: Missions among the Iroquois, Outaouacs, and at Tadousac.
This _Relation_ was printed for Mr. Lenox. Cf. Lenox, p. 13; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,172; O’Callaghan, nos. 1,247, 1,975.
=1677-1678.=—_Relation_, etc. This is printed in the _Mission du Canada_, i. 193.
CONTENTS: Joliet’s account of his Journey with Marquette, and their discovery of the Mississippi in 1673, as edited by Père Dablon, with an account of a third journey to the Country of the Illinois, by Claude Allouez.
An English version of Allouez’ journal is given in Shea’s _Mississippi Valley_, p. 67, with a sketch of the missionary’s life. Cf. Margry’s “Notice sur le Père Allouez, 1665-71,” in his _Découvertes_, etc., Part I. p. 59. For Joliet and Marquette, see chap. vi.
=1684.=_—Copie d’une Lettre escrite par le Père Jacques Bigot, de la Compagnie de Jésus, l’an 1684._ Manate [New York], 1858.
The letter was written in behalf of the Abenakis of the St. Francis de Sales mission, to accompany offerings to the tomb of their patron saint at Annecy. The original letter is preserved in the Archives du Monastère de la Visitation à Annecy. Cf. Harrisse, no. 725; Lenox, p. 17; O’Callaghan, no. 1,972; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,278.
=1684.=—JACQUES BIGOT. _Relation ... l’année 1684._ À Manate, 1857 (100 copies).
The Abenakis mission of St. Joseph de Sillery and the new mission of St. Francis de Sales, and follows the original manuscript in the Collége Ste. Marie. Cf. Harrisse, no. 726; Field, no. 130; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,277; Lenox, p. 15.
=1685.=—BIGOT. _Relation ... l’année 1685._ À Manate, 1858.
The St. Joseph de Sillery and St. Francis de Sales missions, and follows the original manuscript in the Collége Ste. Marie. Cf. Harrisse, no. 727; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,307; Lenox, p. 15; Field, no. 131.
=1688.=—JEAN DE ST. VALIER (Evêque de Québec). _Relation des Missions de la Nouvelle France._ Paris, 1688.
REFERENCES: Harrisse, no. 159; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. nos. 1,366, 1,367; O’Callaghan, no. 2,218; Sunderland, no. 268; Lenox, pp. 12, 13.
COPIES: =CB.=, =HC.=, =L.=, etc.
This work has sometimes the following title instead: _Estat présent de l’Eglise et de la Colonie Françoise dans la Nouvelle France._ De St. Valier had succeeded De Laval, but before consecration visited the country, and wrote this account of it.[691]
=1688.=—J. M. CHAUMONOT. _Vie, écrite par lui-même, 1688._ New York, 1858.
One of Dr. Shea’s Cramoisy series. The original manuscript is preserved in the Hôtel-Dieu, Quebec. It was followed by _Suite de la vie de P. M. J. Chaumonot, par un père de la Compagnie_, believed by Dr. Shea to be Rale. This was printed at New York in 1858, and continues the story to 1693. Cf. Carayon, _Le Père Chaumonot_; also, Harrisse, no. 753; Lenox, p. 16; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. nos. 1,348, 1,349; Field, no. 288.
=1690-1691.=—PIERRE MILET. _Relation de sa Captivité parmi les Onneiouts en 1690-91._ Nouvelle York, 1864.
Cf. Lenox, p. 17; Harrisse, no. 776; Field, p. 274. It follows a copy found in Holland by Henry C. Murphy. See Vol. III. p. 415.
=1693-1694.=—JACQUES GRAVIER. _Relation ... depuis le Mois de Mars, 1693, jusqu’en Février, 1694._ À Manate, 1857.
The mission of the Immaculate Conception among the Illinois. Cf. Lenox, p. 15; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,466; Field, no. 622.
E. Carré, the minister of the French Church in Boston, printed in 1693, with a preface by Cotton Mather, _Eschantillon de la doctrine que les Jésuites enseignent aux Sauvages du nouveau monde_, drawn from a manuscript found at Albany. Sabin, vol. iii. no. 11,040.
=1696-1702.=—_Relation des Affaires du Canada en 1696; avec des lettres des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus, depuis 1696 jusqu’en 1702._ Nouvelle York [Shea], 1865.
It was printed from copies of manuscripts preserved at Paris, made for H. C. Murphy, and covers the war with the Iroquois, the Sault St. Xavier, and other missions. A portion of it appeared without authority the same year, as _Relation des affaires du Canada en 1696, et des Missions des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus jusqu’en 1702_. Cf. Field, p. 325; Lenox, p. 17; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,489.
=1700.=—_Relation ou Journal du Voyage du R. P. Jacques Gravier en 1700, depuis le pays des Illinois jusqu’à l’Embouchure du Mississippi._ Nouvelle York, 1859.
Printed by Dr. Shea as one of his series, and translated by Shea in his _Early Voyages up and down the Mississippi_ (Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,604). Dr. Shea also printed in 1861 De Montigny de St. Cosme and Thaumur de la Source’s _Relation de la Mission du Mississippi du Séminaire de Québec en 1700_, giving an account of the attempt of the Quebec Seminary to found missions on the lower Mississippi. Cf. Field, no. 1,084; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,619. An English version is in Shea’s _Early Voyages_, etc.
=1701.=—BIGOT. _Relation ... dans la mission des Abnaquis à l’Acadie, 1701._ Manate [Shea] 1858.
Cf. Field, p. 33; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,628. Shea also printed _Relation_ (1702) in 1865.
=1717-1776.=—_Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères._ 32 vols. in 34 parts.
REFERENCES: Carayon, p. 55; Field, no. 919; Brunet, p. 1028; _Catalogue Library of Parliament_, 1858, p. 1192; Shea’s _Charlevoix_, p. 88; Sabin, vol. x. pp. 294, 395; Muller, _Books on America_, (1877), no. 3,680.
This serial contains various accounts supplementing the Jesuit Relations: as under 1712, Father Marest’s voyage to Hudson’s Bay in 1694-1695 with D’Iberville; under 1722 and 1724, much about Rale, etc.
As regards the date, 1717, for the beginning of this series, Dr. Shea writes:—
“This date, though generally given, is, I am convinced, erroneous. The first Recueil was approved by the Provincial in 1702, and obtained the Royal license to print Aug. 23, 1702. The approval of vol. iii. is dated in 1703. It is clear that vol. i. must have appeared in 1702 or 1703. I possess a translation of vol. i. in English: ‘Edifying and Curious Letters of some Missioners, of the Society of Jesus, from Foreign Missions. Printed in the Year 1707. 16º.’ Of course the French preceded this translation.”
Brunet says it is not easy to find the series complete. A second edition, Paris, 1780-1783, is in twenty-six volumes, but the prefaces and dedications of the original volumes are not included. There were other issues in 1819 and 1839. Stöcklein’s _Brief-Schriften_, etc., 1726-1756, is in part a translation, with much else besides. Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 390, and vol. iii. no. 994, where a Spanish translation is noted.