onvenient for your Reverence or any of the Reverence Brethren to write
to me a letter concerning matters which might be important in any degree
to me, it would be very interesting to me, living here in a wild country
without any society of our order, and would be a spur to write more
assiduously to the Reverend Brethren concerning what may happen here.
And especially do not forget my hearty salutations to the beloved wife
and brother-in-law of your Reverence, who have shown me nothing but
friendship and kindness above my deserts. If there were anything in
which I could in return serve or gratify your Reverence, I should be
glad to do so, and should not be delinquent in anything.

(1) This duty had been committed to them by the synod of
North Holland. The preachers named in the text were all at
this time active in Amsterdam; Sylvius and Triglandius since
1610, and Johannes Cloppenburg since 1621.

(2) Of Amsterdam.

Concluding then herewith, and commending myself to your Reverence's
favor and to your holy prayers to the Lord,

Reverence and Learned Sir, Beloved Brother in Christ, and Kind Friend:

Heartily commending your Reverence and all of you to Almighty God, to
continued health and prosperity, and to eternal Salvation, by His Grace.

From the island of Manhatas in New Netherland, this 11th of August, Anno
1628, by me, your Reverence's very obedient servant in Christ,

JONAS MICHAELIUS.

"NOVUM BELGIUM" 1646

Reference material and source.

Jogues, Father Isaac. "Novum Belgium, 1646." In J. Franklin
Jameson, ed., Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664
(Original Narratives of Early American History). NY:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.

INTRODUCTION

At some time before his death in 1800, Father Jean Joseph Casot, the
last of the old race of Jesuits in Canada, seeing his order about to
expire under the restrictions then imposed by the British government,
and determined that all the materials for its history should not perish
by reason of his death, made a selection from among its papers, and
placed the portion thus preserved in the custody of the Augustinian nuns
of the Hotel Dieu of Quebec. There they remained safe till in 1843
they were restored to the Society, then revived and under the charge of
Father Martin, as superior of the Jesuits in Canada. Among these papers
was the following, in which Father Jogues, at the time of his last