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Two Letters to Monseigneur de Laval
Gravier, Father Jacques to Monseigneur de Laval, Sept. 17,
1697
[Laval University] and Sept. 20, 1698 [L'Abeille, vol. 7, no. 13]
in: Jesuit Relations, vol. 65, pp.
53-63.
pp. 53, 55.
If Monseigneur of Quebec has the same Sentiments for us, as We all hope, We shall perform our duties in our Outaoais Missions more peacefully than We have done for some years. We shall also be safe from the threats of Monsieur the Count de Frontenac to drive us from our Missions, as he has already done from that of l'Ange gardien of the Miamis, at Chicagwa,- the charge of which Monseigneur of Quebec had confided to me, by his patents giving me the care of the Missions to the Illinois, Miamis, and Scious, and confirming the powers that Your Grace had conferred upon Father Marquette and Father d'alloués I who were the first Missionaries to those Southern nations."
But he [Frontenac] could not otherwise than by violence drive us from Our Mission of Chikagwa, and we hope that Monseigneur of Quebec will not suffer such violence, which is so prejudicial to this authority.
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