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Title: The history of Will County, Illinois, containing a history of the county ..
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Le Baron, Wm., jr., & co., Chicago pub. (from old catalog) Woodruff, George H., b. 1814. (from old catalog) Perrin, William Henry. (from old catalog) Hill, H. H. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, W. Le Baron, jr., & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ers into the Valley of the Mississippi,and which, at a later period, established the civil and ecclesiasticalauthority of France from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico,and from the foot-hills of the Alleghanies to the Rocky Mountains. The great river of the West had been discovered by DeSoto, theSpanish conqueror of Florida, three quarters of a century before theFrench founded Quebec in 1608, but the Spanish left the country a wil-derness, without further exploration or settlement within its borders, inwhich condition it remained until the Mississippi was discovered by theagents of the French Canadian government, Jolietand Marquette, in 1673.These renowned explorers were not the first white visitors to Illinois.In 1671—two years in advance of them—came Nicholas Perrot to Chicago.He had been sent by Talon as an agent of the Canadian government to TOO 110 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. «v b-fj.., \:: ^^y ■,. •:ii. ■■« illll 1 llfllil ■1.lit, r li ■ i J,
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o■J ■A< ■^ n o o in HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Ill call a great peace convention of Western Indians at Green Bay, prepara-tory to the movement for the discovery of the Mississippi. It wasdeemed a good stroke of policy to secure, as far as possible, the friend-ship and co-operation of tlie Indians, far and near, before venturing uponan enterprise which their hostility might render disastrous, and whichtheir friendship and assistance would do so much to make successful;and to this end Perrot was sent to call toether in council the tribesthroughout tlie Northwest, and to promise them the commerce and pro-tection of the French government. He accordingly arrived at GreenBay in 1671, and procuring an escort of Pottawattamies, proceeded in abark canoe upon a visit to the Miarais, at Chicago. Perrot was there-fore the first European to set foot upon the soil of Illinois. Still there were others before Marquette. In 1672, the Jesuit mis-sionaries, Fathers Claude Allouez and Cla

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