The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
84 (p. 251).--Champlain says (Laverdière's ed., pp. 61, 1307), that
Virginia was at first called Mocosa by the English. Ortelius's map
of 1570 shows Mocosa lying southwest of New France; and his second
map (1572) names the region south of the St. Lawrence and east of the
Richelieu River, Moscosa. Biard (_Relation_ of 1616) seems to apply
this name to the region of Chesapeake Bay.
85 (p. 253).--A group of islands 25 leagues from St. Sauveur, according
to Biard's _Relation_ of 1616, _post_; but 16 leagues, according
to Champlain (Laverdiere's ed., p. 773). Apparently the Matinic or
Matinicus Islands (also spelled Emmetinic). See also Emmetenic, on p.
31 of this volume.
86 (p. 253).--Argall's ship was named "Treasurer." Champlain says
(Laverdière's ed., p. 773), that ten other English ships were
approaching, but without the knowledge of the French; these, however,
were probably part of the usual fishing fleet, and not directly under
Argall's command.
87 (p. 255).--_English heretic_: Captain Samuel Argall, of Virginia,
afterwards governor of that colony (see vol. i., _note_ 63): during
the first quarter of the 17th century, prominent as an English
naval commander. His mother was married a second time, to Laurence
Washington, an ancestor of George Washington. His destruction of the
French settlements has been bitterly censured by some writers, as the
act of a buccaneer and pirate; but he was commissioned to do this by
the Virginia colonial authorities, who afterwards declared that, in
the encounter at St. Sauveur, the first shot was fired by the French.
A letter was written by Montmorency, admiral of France, to King James
of England, October 28, 1613, asking for the release of the Jesuit
fathers, and redress for the injuries done to the property of Madame
de Guercheville. The Virginia Council, when called to account for
Argall's doings, made a spirited reply in his and their own defense;
and the English Privy Council refused to make any reparation to Madame
de Guercheville, alleging that "her ship entered by force the territory
of the said colony [Virginia] to settle there, and to trade without
their permission." These documents are given in Brown's _Genesis of the
United States_, pp. 573, 664, 665, 725-734. Cf. "Aspinwall Papers," pp.
41-46, in _Mass. Hist. Colls._, 4th series, vol. ix. The ship, however,
was afterwards restored (see Biard's _Relation_ of 1616, _post_).
88 (p. 259).--This pilot is called Le Bailleur, of Rouen, in Biard's
_Relation_ of 1616. Charlevoix (Shea's ed., vol. i., pp. 280-281)
erroneously confounds him with one Lamets, named by Champlain as among
the five who escaped from the ship, but after the pilot had left it on
his reconnoitring trip. These men seem to have later joined the pilot,
as he had 14 men when he encountered La Saussaye.
89 (p. 261).--See vol. i., _note_ 66.
90 (p. 263).--_Orignac_, in the original; see _note_ 34, _ante_.
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