JACQUES See also:MARQUETTE (1637–1675)
, See also:French Jesuit missionary and explorer, re-discoverer (with See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Joliet) of the See also:Mississippi
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He was See also:born at See also:Laon, went to See also:Canada in 1666, and was sent in 1668 to the upper lakes of the St See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence
.
Here he worked at Sault Ste See also:Marie, St Esprit (near the western extremity of See also:Lake See also:Superior) and St Ignace (near Michilimackinac or Mackinaw, on the strait between See also:Huron and See also:Michigan)
.
In 1673 he was chosen with Joliet for the exploration of the Mississippi, of which the French had begun to gain knowledge from See also:Indians of the central prairies
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The route taken See also:lay up the See also:north-See also:west See also:side of Lake Michigan, up See also:Green See also:Bay and See also:Fox See also:river, across Lake See also:Winnebago, over the See also:portage to the See also:Wisconsin river, and down the latter into the Mississippi, which was descended to within 700 M. of the See also:sea, at the confluence of the See also:Arkansas river
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Entering the Mississippi on the 17th of May, Joliet and his See also:companion turned back on the 17th of See also:July, and returned to Green Bay and Michigan (by way of the See also:Illinois river) at the end of See also:September 1673
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On the See also:journey See also:Marquette See also:fell See also:ill of See also:dysentery; and a fresh excursion which he undertook to plant a See also:mission among the Indians of the Illinois river in the See also:winter of 1674–1675 proved fatal
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He died on his way See also:home to St Ignace onthe See also:banks of a small stream (the lesser and older Marquette River) which enters the See also:east side of Lake Michigan in Marquette Bay (May 18, 1675)
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His name is now See also:borne by a larger watercourse which flows some distance from the See also:scene of his See also:death
.
See Marquette's See also:Journal, first published in Melchissedech Thevenot's Recueil de Voyages (See also:Paris, 1681), and fully given in See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin's Relations inedites, and in Shea's See also:Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley (New See also:York, 1852); cf. also See also:Pierre Margry's Decouvertes . See also:des Fran4ais clans l'ouest et clans le sud de l'Amerique septentrionale (1614–1754) ; Memoires et documents originaux (Paris, 1875), containing Joliet's Details and Relations; See also:Francis See also:Parkman, La Salle and the Discovery of the See also:Great West (See also:Boston 1869–1878), esp. pp
.
X., 20, 32–33, 49–72
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