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Title: History and general description of New France
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Charlevoix, Pierre François Xavier de, 1682-1761 Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
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Publisher: New York : John Gilmary Shea
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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nd it ascended without any difficulty to New Or-leans. It is astonishing, that after this experiment mendid not open their eyes to the importance of making it atonce the headquarters, and that so many thousand menwere left to waste with misery and disease under the pre-text that there were not batteaux enough to transportthem to their destination, when the very ships thatbrought them from France might have landed them atNew Orleans, and even nearer to their concessions. ■ Penicaut, Relation, ch. 19, § 7. left 50 carpenters and convicts to For the founding of New Orleans, clear the ground and build. It was See Dumont, Mtimoirea Historiques laid out later by la Tour, the ongi- sor la Louisiane, ii., p. 39-46 ; Le neer. Page du Pratz, Histoire de la Loui- ^ Penicaut, Relation, ch. 20, § 1. Biane; Charlevois, Journal, p. 441; The Pliilippe and the Marie ar- Louisiana Hist. Coll., iii., pp. 179- rived also, but brought few settlers. 183. Bienville, in February, 1718, Dumont, ii., p. 8.
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ffej C (J5 V*^ k Q a a ^ I f HISTORY OF NEW FRANCE. 4; It was in the month of March ensuing that the colony 1718.saw the first Concessionaries arrive. The Sieur Duguo ^■^vde Boisbriand accompanied them, bearing the orders of Arrival ofthe King, or rather of the Company, which, under his concS^majestys good pleasure, had appointed him Commandant *°°*at the Dlinois, Mr. de Bienville Commandant-General ofLoiiysiana and Director of the Company, and Mr. dePaiUoux Major-General. De Boisbriand ascended to theIllinois without delay, taking with him Mr. Diron and theChevalier dArtaguette, both brothers of the former Com-missaire Ordonnateur; the former was a captaLa, andere long was declared Inspector-General of Louysiana;the latter was a lieutenant. At the same time several Indian tribes, some of whichhad long seemed hostile to the French, Mke the Chetuna-chas, settled on the Micissippi, quite near New Orleans,and as most of these tribes are accustomed to the cultiva-tion of the soU, they

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