History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . 120 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF names of Jean Baptiste Fian(;ois andJoseph respectively, the former abouttwelve and the latter fifteen years were quite common at the judge from the woril panis orpanise to signify the sex, they weremostly Indians of the Pawnee tribe, hencethe gallicized word panis. Nor werethey confined only to that race. Uponpa
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . 120 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF names of Jean Baptiste Fian(;ois andJoseph respectively, the former abouttwelve and the latter fifteen years were quite common at the judge from the woril panis orpanise to signify the sex, they weremostly Indians of the Pawnee tribe, hencethe gallicized word panis. Nor werethey confined only to that race. Uponpage eight. Father Coquarz certifies , on January 19th, 1743, adaughter of Boncoeur, a negro, and of. THE ST. JOHNS , Isl] IM--MI\( Margaret, a negress, belonging to SieurBoutin, obliged to winter at Mackinac onhis way to Illinois. A most interesting fact is revealed bythese records that the mission was alsoin possession of slaves. On top of pagetwenty-nine is the following entry: This6th day of April (1750) the Feast of theAnnunciation of the Blessed Virgin, Ihave solemnly baptized in the church ofthis mission Jean FraiiQois Regis, ayoung slave of about se\en years giventhrough gratitude to this mission lastsummer bv Monsieur le Che\-alier De la \irendre3e, upon his safe return from theextreme West, the said child being wellinstructed and asking baptism. His god-father was Sieur Etienne Chenier and hisgodmother Charlotte Parent. Done at]\Iichilimackinac the day and year afore-said. P. Du Jaunay, missionary of theSociety of Jesus. Another entrjr of the same characteroccurs upon page fifty-nine: Today,Holy Saturday, the loth day of April, inthe year 1762, I have solemnly baptiz
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