MONTIGNY, FRANÇOIS DE (François Jolliet de Montigny)
Jolliet, who came with a commission to lead an expedition of discovery to the Mississippi.
After a winter of plans and preparations, Marquette
the Esquimaux country where the Spaniards usually fish.” On 9 Nov. 1695 he formed a company with Louis Jolliet*, his wife Claire-Françoise
April 1666, when he made a contract with Adrien Jolliet and Denis Guyon whereby he would undertake a “journey to the Ottawas.” The following year he obtained from Jean
Aubert* de La Chesnaye, one of the tax-farmers, who, in the spring of 1679, sent Louis Jolliet to explore
received a warning of intended French aggressions against the Company’s posts from Zacharie Jolliet, his competitor and near-neighbour at Nemiskau Lake. Zacharie, like his brother Louis
not that at Gros Mécatina, which went to the former intendant Hocquart*. Nevertheless, through his marriage to Marie-Anne Jolliet de Mingan
, and on it appears Chavigny’s signature.
Although Jolliet* and Chavigny signed in a notary’s
Jolliet*, and the following year he took part, with Amador Martin, in a disputation “on the whole of
Jolliet, himself the godson of Louis Maheut the elder. Louis Maheut owned a property at Rivière-des-Roches on the St. Lawrence, opposite the Île d’Orléans. He died on 24 Nov
d’Iberville, and some other officers, was accused of disturbing the peace in Lower Town at Quebec. In the same year he went with Louis Jolliet* on a
to Adrien Jolliet, the two set off in 1669 “to go and reconnoitre to see whether the copper mine situated to the north of Lake Ontario . . . is rich and of easy extraction.” Peré
, the islands being part of a seigneury conceded to Jacques de Lalande de Gayon and Louis Jolliet* jointly in 1679, extending a great length along
trading in order to devote his time to mapmaking. Louis Jolliet* had returned to Quebec after his exploration of the Mississippi River, and had
, Dollier* de Casson, Adrien Jolliet, and Marquette. Indeed Daumont de Saint-Lusson, as well as making
(1868), par Félix Martin. ASQ, MSS, 43, “Étude sur les Relations des Jésuites,” par Félix Martin. JR (Thwaites). JJ (Laverdière et Casgrain). Delanglez, Jolliet. Marie de Saint
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