Sunday, March 22, 2009

French Jesuit Diplomat

Nov 1st 1686
French Jesuit Fr. John De Lamberville writes to Chevalier de Callieres, Governor of Montréal, to inform him that New York's governor Thomas Dongan had assembled the Iroquois Nations in New York City and told them to keep the French out of English territory and to break off all relations with them.

Link (here)

Painting of Huron Indians (here)

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