The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Volumes I-II Acadia 1610-1614

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Volumes I-II Acadia 1610-1614
Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France 1610-1791

This edition features
• two complete volumes
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes

CONTENTS
Vol. I Acadia, 1610-1613
General Preface
Historical Introduction. The Editor
Preface to Volume I
Documents:—
I. La Conversion des Savvages qui ont esté baptizés en la Novvelle France, cette annee 1610. Marc Lescarbot
II. Lettre Missive, tovchant la Conversion et baptesme du grand Sagamos de la nouuelle Frãce. M. Bertrand; Port Royal, June 28, 1610
III. Lettre au T.-R. P. Claude Aquaviva, Général de la Compagnie de Jésus, à Rome. Pierre Biard; Dieppe, January 21, 1611
IV. Lettre au R. P. Christophe Baltazar, Provincial de France, à Paris. Pierre Biard; Port Royal, June 10, 1611
V. Lettre au R. P. Provincial, à Paris. Ennemond Massé; Port Royal, June 10, 1611
VI. Lettre au T.-R. P. Claude Aquaviva. Pierre Biard; Port Royal, June 11, 1611
VII. Canadicæ Missionis Relatio ab anno 1611 usque ad annum 1613; cum statu ejusdem Missionis, annis 1703 & 1710. Joseph Jouvency
VIII. De Regione et Moribus Canadensium seu Barbarorum Novæ Franciæ. Joseph Jouvency
Bibliographical Data
Notes

Vol. II Acadia, 1612-1614
Preface
Documents:—
IX. Lettre au R. P. Provincial, à Paris. Pierre Biard; Port Royal, January 31, 1612
X. Missio Canadensis. Epistola ex Porturegali in Acadia, transmissa ad Praepositvm Generalem Societatis Jesu. Pierre Biard; Port Royal, January 31, 1612
XI. Relation Dernière de ce qui s'est Passé au Voyage du Sieur de Potrincourt. Marc Lescarbot; Paris, 1612
XII. Relatio Rervm Gestarum in Novo-Francica Missione, Annis 1613 & 1614
Bibliographical Data
Notes

"The Jesuit Relations, also known as Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France, are early ethnographic documents that chronicle Jesuit missions in New France. Covering a period of 200 years and beginning in 1611, the works were written annually and appeared in print beginning in 1632.

Originally written in French, Latin, and Italian, The Jesuit Relations were reports from Jesuit missionaries in the field that were sent to their superiors to update them as to the missionaries’ progress in the conversion of various Native American tribes. Constructed as narratives, the original reports of the Jesuit missionaries were subsequently transcribed and altered several times before their publication, first by the Jesuit overseer in New France and then by the Jesuit governing body in France. The Relations gradually became more focused on the general public as its readers, in terms of a marketing tool to procure new settlers for the colonies, while simultaneously trying to gain the capital to continue the missions in New France."--Wikipedia