MS 4057 Copies of "Relation or Journal of the voyage of Father Gravier, of the Society of Jesus, in 1700, from the Country of the Illinois To the Mouth of the Mississippi River"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4057
name: label: Creator
content: Gravier, Jacques, 1651-1708
topic: label: Topic
content: Migration -- Kaskaskias
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Gravier, Jacques, 1651-1708
culture: label: Culture
content: Kaskaskias
label: Culture
content: Illinois Indians
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Copy of a letter, evidently from the "Correspondence-Document 512," referred to in Pillings Algon. Bibliography under "Correspondence, Document 512, on the subject of the Emigration of Indians between 30th November, 1831, and 27th December 1833"
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4057
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letter was "written to Father de Lamberville and sent from Fort Mississipi [sic], 17 Leagues from its discharge into the Mexican Gulf or sea, on The 16th of February, 1701."  Published in "The Jesuit relations and allied documents; travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; the original French, Latin, and Italian texts, with English translations and notes," Vol 65. 

Father Marest, Father Marguette, Father Pinet, and others mentioned. Refers to emigration of the Kaskaskias.