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PAPERS RELATING TO THE SIX NATIONS.

Claude Dablon. Arrived in Canada 1655 when he proceeded to Onondaga, and continued there afew years. He labored afterwards among the tribes of the Upper lakes, and was Superiorfrom 1670 to 1693. The date of his decease is not known; he was still alive in 1694.

Jacques Fremin. Was missionary at Onondaga from 1656 to 1658; sent to the Mohawks in July,1667; left there 10 Oct., 1668 for Seneca, where he remained a few years. He died at Que-bec 20 July, 1691.

Pierre Rafeix. Arrived in Canada 22 Sept 1663; chaplain in Courcelles’ expedition in 1665;sent to Cayuga in 1671; thence, on Carheils’ return, to Seneca where he was in 1679. He wasin Quebec in 1702-3 though in an infirm state of health.

Jaques Bruyas. Arrived Aug. 3, 1666. Sent to the Mohawks , July 1667, & to the Oneidas inSept, where he spent 4 years; thence he returned to the Mohawks in 1672, and was atOnondaga in 1679, in 1700 and 1701. He was still alive in 1703, at Fort St Louis .

Etienne de Carheil. Arrived in Canada 6 Aug. 1666; sent to Cayuga 1668—absent in 1671, 2 ;returned and remained until 1684. Died at Quebec July 1726. He is said to have spokenthe Iroquois better than his own language.

Pierre Milet. Was sent with de Carheil to Cayuga; left in 1684; was at Niagara in 1688 ;taken prisoner at Cataracouy in 1689 and remained in captivity until October 1694. He wasalive in 1701 and Charlevoix, who came in 1705, says that he lived several years with him.

Jean Pierron. Arrived in Canada 27 June 1667; sent to the Mohawks the following month;returned to Quebec and arrived again among the Mohawks 7 Oct. 1668; left in 1670 andwas sent to the Senecas after 1672,3 where he still was in 1679.

Jean de Lamberville. Arrived probably in 1668. At Onondaga in 1671,2; left it and was sent toNiagara in 16S7; at La prairie in 1690 and in France in 1699.

Francois Boniface. Sent to the Mohawks in 1668, 9; laboring there after 1673; died at Quebec 17Dec. 1674.

Frs. Vaillant de Gueslis; arrived prior to 1674. Succeeded Father Boniface among the Mohawks about 1674; accompanied the expedition against the Senecas in 1687; on the 31 Dec. of thatyear was sent to New York and to the Senecas in 1703, 4.

Jacques de Lamberville. Among the Mohawks in 1675-8; subsequently at Onondaga whichplace he left in 1686. At Montreal in 1700, again among the Iroquois in 1703, and at Onon-daga in Sept 1708. He was at Cayuga in 1709, whence he fled on the breaking out of the war.

Pierre de Mareuil. At Onondaga in June 1709, when he surrendered himself to the English inconsequence of war breaking out between the latter and the French, and came to Albany where the government caused every attention to be paid to him, as appears by Journ.Ass. i., 255.

Jacques D’Heu was a Missionary among the Onondagas in 1708; and - in 1709 among the Senecas;is said to have been drowned in 1728.

Anthony Gordon, founded St Regis in 1769, with a Colony from Sault St. Louis .

Sulpitians.

Francis Picquet. Came to America in 1733; founded Oswegatehie in 1748; abandoned that placein 1760, and died in France 15 July 1781.

Pierre Paul Frs. de la Garde. Succeeded AbbtS Picquet at Oswegatehie; died at Montreal April 4 1784.

*,* We are indebted to the politeness of John g. Shea Esq. for the preceding list. Ed.