The Port Nelson relations, miscellaneous writings, and related documents / edited by Germaine Warkentin.

Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636?-1710) was many men. He was a teenager captured, tortured, and adopted by the Mohawk, and a youth relishing the freedom of the wilderness. He was the French-born servant of an ambitious English trading company and a hapless petitioner at the court of Louis XIV. He was a...

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Other Authors: Warkentin, Germaine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
Series:Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings ; Volume 2
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""PREFACE""; ""TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION""; ""ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""I The Port Nelson Relations, 1682â€?84""; ""Relation of Events at Port Nelson, 1682â€?83""; ""Relation of Events at Port Nelson, 1684""; ""II Miscellaneous Writings, 1676?â€?83""; ""Journal des choses les plus remarquables arivéé depuis nostre despart de la pointe Confort pour Port Nelson lâ€?annéé 1673 [1676â€?78?]""; ""Mémoire on the Northern Seacoast of North America [original untitled; 1676â€?78]""; ""Letter to Claude Bernou [December 1677?]""
  • ""Petition [to the Marquis de Seignelay? late 1683]""""III Related Documents""; ""Médard Chouart Des Groseilliers: Letter Concerning the Events at Port Nelson, 1682â€?83 [late 1683 or early 1684]""; ""Radisson vs. the Hudsonâ€?s Bay Company: Complaint in Chancery, May 1694""; ""Radissonâ€?s Narrative in Reference to the Answer of the Commissioners of France, 1697""; ""Radissonâ€?s Affidavit, sworn before Sir Robert Geffery, 23 August 1697""; ""Radissonâ€?s Petition to Parliament, 1698""; ""The Last Will and Testament of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, 17 June 1710""; ""IV Appendices""
  • ""Appendix A THE ABBÃ? BERNOU DEBRIEFS RADISSON:THE SUPPOSED “PETITIONSâ€?OF 1677 AND 1681 """"Appendix B “THE HISTORY OF MR RADISONâ€?S TRANSACTIONSâ€?WILLIAM YONGEâ€?S LETTER, 1692""; ""ADDENDUM: REFERENCES IN VOLUME 1 TO PAGES IN VOLUME 2""; ""WORKS CONSULTED""; ""INDEX""