Father Bressani was captured in 1644 by the Iroquois, and given to a woman as a slave. She sent him to Fort Orange, where he was ransomed by the Dutch and returned to France. _Jesuit Relations_, xxvi, p. 49. Other Jesuits were enslaved by the Iroquois. Basqueville de la Potherie, _Histoire de l’Amérique Septentrionale_, iv, pp. 125–163. French men, women and children had a similar fate. _Jesuit Relations_, xl, p. 137; xlvi, p. 207. Some of them were ransomed and freed by the Dutch. Margry, _op. cit._, vi, pp. 123, 125. Joutel, in 1687, feared that he would be enslaved by the Cenis, and put to work in their mines along with their Indian slaves. Margry, _op. cit._, iii, p. 339. After the death of La Salle, and the massacre of most of his followers in 1687, the children who were spared were taken captive by the Spanish Indians, and sent to Mexico as slaves. Margry, _op. cit._, iii, p. 339. Saint Denis, in 1721, certified that he had been eleven months a slave among the savages of the west Mississippi country. Robinson, _Account of Discoveries in the West_, etc., p. 215. As late as 1754, the Indians of Virginia had French prisoners as slaves. _Virginia Historical Society Collections_, iii, p. 267. In the time of King Philip’s War, Mrs. Rowlandson of Lancaster was taken prisoner by the Indians and sold to a Narraganset chief whose slave she became. Clark, _History of King Philip_, p. 290. During the various colonial wars, many Englishmen were taken by the Indians as slaves and sold to the French in Canada. _Massachusetts Archives_, lxxiv, p. 57. [111] Prescott, _History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic_, edition of 1838, i, p. 390; ii, p. 40. [112] French, _op. cit._, series 2, p. 263. [113] For slaves taken by Columbus on his three voyages, see _Journal of Columbus’ First Voyage_, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_, i, pp. 112, 306; Thacher, _Christopher Columbus, His Life, His Work, His Remains_, etc., ii, pp. 301, 357, 393, 585, 644, 685. [114] Lowery, _The Spanish Settlements within the Present Limits of the United States, 1513–1561_, p. 136. According to the patent, the king was to name the individuals who should distribute the slaves. _Ibid._, p. 136. [115] Lowery, _The Spanish Settlements within the Present Limits of the United States, 1513–1561_, p. 162. [116] Shea, _The Catholic Church in Colonial Days_, p. 112; Lowery, _op. cit._, p. 136. [117] For this reason he took no monks or priests with him. Lowery, _op. cit._, p. 136.