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Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians
And a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3
By Father Isaac Jogues of the Society of Jesuits
New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856
Extremely rare 1856 publication on the captivity of Jesuit Isaac Jogues by members of the Mohawk Indian nation. Jogues (1607 – 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, calling it Lac du Saint Sacrement (Lake of the Blessed Sacrament). In 1646, Jogues was martyred by the Mohawk at their village of Ossernenon, near the Mohawk River.
The publication was based on Jogues papers and letters which were discovered at the Hotel Dieu in Quebec in 1800.
String-tied pamphlet. 69 pages. 9" x 6".
Rare - none other listed online - only 19 listed in universities and libraries!
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