The Rev. Isaac Joques, the author of the following early notice of New York was horn at Orleans in France lOtli Jany1607, in which city he received the rudiments of his education. He entered the Jesuit Society at Rouen in Oct. 1624 andremoved to the College of La Fletche in 1627. He completed his divinity at Clermont College, Paris , and was ordainedPriest in February 1636 in the Spring of which year he embarked as a Missionary for Canada and arrived at Quebec on the 2ndof July. After a sojourn of a few weeks in that city lie proceeded to the Huron country on the 24 Aug. and arrived atthe new field of his labors about the 12th September. In 1641 he visited Pauoitigoueiuhak, or “ the place of the ShallowCataract,” as the Falls of St Mary were originally called, on an invitation of some O-jibways but made only a brief staythere and returned to Quebec in 1642. He reembarked on the first of August of that year for the Huron Mission but, on hisway, was captured by a party of Mohawks who had lain in ambush for his party, and was hurried off a prisoner to the enemy’scountry. Here he suffered every torture short of the stake, and had to witness the cruel deaths of many of his companions.On the 31st July 1643, after a year’s captivity he succeeded in evading the vigilance of his captors, and escaped to the Dutch at Fort Orange (Albany ) by whom he was most cordially received and most humanely treated. Thither his Savage mastersfollowed him, but the Dutch preferred ransoming to surrendering him and forwarded him to New Amsterdam, whore he wassuitably received by Gov. Kieft, furnished with every necessary and a passage to France . After having been shipwrecked onthe coast of England and again stripped of all he had, he finally reached the French coast in utter destitution.

His stay in New Netherland from August 1642 to Nov. 1643 enabled him to draw up the present interesting sketch of thatcountry.

After recruiting his shattered strength, and experiencing every attention at Court and at the hands of his religious Superiors,he returned to Canada and was stationed at Montreal. On peace being concluded with the Mohawks, Father Jogues wasselected as ambassador to their country to exchange ratifications. He set out 16th May 1646, passed through Lakes Cham-plain and George (to the latter of which he gave the name of St Sacrement ), and reached Fort Orange on 4th June, andproceeded thence to the Village of Onewgiwre. He tarried hero but a short time, having left on the 16th, on his returnto Three Rivers, where he arrived on the 29th.

He set out again on the 27th September for the Mohawk country in his true character, as a Missionary of the Gospel, witha deep presentiment of not returning. He entered Gandawage or Gannawage, the scene of his former captivity, on the 17thOotober and was received with blows •' A revolution had passed over the Savage mind. Jogues , on his departure in June,had left a box in one of the lodges, containing some trifling necessaries. Harvest came but it was discovered that the wormhad visited the Indians’ fields and devoured the crop. Jogues ’ box it was to their humble capacities that contained the EvilSpirit which thus laid waste their country, and in revenge the Christian Missionary was doomed to die. In the evening of the18tli he was invited to sup in one of the cabins. On entering the door he received a blow on the head and fell dead on the ground.His lifeless body was at once decapitated; the head fixed on the palisades of the village and the trunk cast into the Mohawk river.

Thus fell, in the 40th year of his age, the first Catholic Missionary in New York . It is supposed that he was slain atCaughnawaga , in Montgomery co., which in the Annals of Religion was afterwards known as the “ Mission of the Martyrs.”A copy of the original French MS. and the following Translation, were presented to the Regents of the University , by theRev. Father Martin, Superior of the Jesuits in Canada . Ed.