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Abbé Abenaquis Acadia Albany amongst arrived at Quebec attack authority Barre bishop Boston brought Callières Canada Canadian canoes captured carried Cataraqui Chambly Champlain chief Colbert colony command Comte de Frontenac Courcelles coureurs de bois court Denonville despatch Dongan Duchesneau ecclesiastical enemy England English established expedition favour Fénelon force Fort Frontenac France French Fron Frontenac garrison governor hand honour Hudson's Bay hundred Hurons Iberville Indians inhabitants intendant Iroquois Island Island of Montreal Jesuit fathers killed king king's Lachine Lake land Laval Louis Maisonneuve Majesty massacre matter Menneval ment Meulles minister mission missionaries Mohawks month Montreal narrative Nicolas Perrot Onondagas Onontio Ottawas party peace Perrot persons Phipps prisoners Quebec received Récollet royal sailed Saint Vallier Salle savages says Senecas sent settlements ships Sovereign Council summer Tadousac Three Rivers tion took trade tribes troops vessels Villeray Walley West whole
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Page 283 - I, the aforesaid William Phips, Knight, do hereby, in the name and in the behalf of their most excellent Majesties, William and Mary, King and Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, and by order of their said Majesties...
Page 283 - Majesties' service and the subjects' security. Which, if you refuse forthwith to do, I am come provided, and am resolved, by the help of God, in whom I trust, by force of arms to revenge all wrongs and injuries offered, and bring you under subjection to...
Page 283 - The war between the two crowns of England and France doth not only sufficiently warrant, but the destruction made by the French and Indians, under your command and encouragement, upon the persons and estates of their Majesties...
Page 30 - France. Vol. i. Introduction, p. xv. More than two centuries earlier the pious Superior of the Ursuline Convent, Mere de 1'Incarnation, had referred, in her own gentle way, to their incompleteness. "If," she says, "any one is disposed to conclude that the labours of the convent are useless because no mention is made of them in the Relations, the inference must equally be drawn that Monseigneur the Bishop is useless ; that his Seminary is useless ; that the Seminary of the Jesuit fathers themselves...
Page 152 - ... Frontenac, to keep in good order the said Fort, and the garrison necessary for the defense thereof, which cannot be less than that of the Fort of Montreal ; to maintain twenty men during nine years 2 for clearing the land which shall be conceded to him ; and, until he shall have a church built, to keep a Priest or Friar to perform Divine Service and administer the sacraments; which expenses, &c., the said de la Salle will defray at his sole cost and charges, until there be established above the...
Page 77 - you will find all sorts of refreshments and commodities, which I shall cause to be furnished to you at the cheapest rate possible." He added, however, that it would be very expensive to bring goods so far, and that they must take that into consideration in criticizing prices. Twenty-five large overcoats were distributed at this point. In the third place he reproached them with their cruel treatment of the Hurons, and said that he meant to treat all the Indian nations alike, and wished all to enjoy...
Page 283 - Majesties' government of the Massachuset-colony in New England, demand a present surrender of your forts and castles, undemolished, and the king's and other stores, unimbezzled, with a seasonable delivery of all captives; together with a surrender of all your persons and estates to my dispose: upon the doing whereof, you may expect mercy from me, as a Christian, according to what shall be found for their Majesties' service and the subjects
Page 80 - You will readily understand," he says, " by what I have just told you,1 that his Majesty's intention is not that you undertake great voyages by ascending the river St. Lawrence, nor that the inhabitants spread themselves for the future further than they have 1 He had been speaking of the slow growth of the population of Canada.
Page 284 - I will not keep you waiting so long. Tell your general that I do not recognize King William, and that the Prince of Orange, who so styles himself, is a usurper who has violated the most sacred laws of blood in attempting to dethrone his father-in-law. I know no King of England but King James. Your general ought not to be surprised at the hostilities which he says that the French have carried on in...
