A collection of all documentary material accessible, relating to Dreuillette's two missions to induce the United Colonies of New England to unite with New France against the Iroquois. The first was undertaken alone in September 1650, the second, with sieur Godefroy in June 1651.

Of the 7 pieces here given, the 1st was originally published as "Narré du voyage faict pour la mission des Abnaquiois et des connaissances tiréz de la Nouvelle Angleterre ... Par le r. père Gabriele Dreuillettes ... " [Albanie, N. Y., 1855]: the 2d, as "Epistola rev. p. Gabrielis Dreuillettes Societatis Jesu presbyteri, ad ... Joannem Winthrop ... Neo-Eboraci, 1864" [Shea's Cramoisy press series, no. 24] with 2d edition 1869: the 3d in Ferland's "Notes sur les registres de Notre-Dame de Québec"

2d edition, Quebec, 1863, p. 95-97; the 5th and 6th in Charlevoix's Histoire et description general de la Nouvelle France, Paris, 1744, v.1.

English translations of no. 1,3,5 and 6, with two other English documents on the same negotiations, were published by Shea in Collections of the New York historical society, 2d ser., v.3, pt. 1.

De la bibliothèque de The New Hamspshire Historical Society, avec leur Ex-libris sous couverture.

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