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JACQUES MARQUETTE (1637–1675)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 752 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARQUETTE (1637–1675)  , See also:French Jesuit missionary and explorer, re-discoverer (with See also:Louis See also:Joliet) of the See also:Mississippi . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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) . 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'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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