. Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808 . leaders in theSchenectady massacre! It was he drove theEnglish from Hudsons Bay. Two years agohe took Fort Pemaquid from us. Yes, and re-duced Newfoundland. And so in tavern andon street corner the French man-of-war and itscommander were discussed, and the crowdpoured to the water front to gaze at the warshiplying down the bay. There was a conference inthe fort between officers from the flagship andthe provincial officials, and following it a boatcame up the bay and from it stepped one
. Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808 . leaders in theSchenectady massacre! It was he drove theEnglish from Hudsons Bay. Two years agohe took Fort Pemaquid from us. Yes, and re-duced Newfoundland. And so in tavern andon street corner the French man-of-war and itscommander were discussed, and the crowdpoured to the water front to gaze at the warshiplying down the bay. There was a conference inthe fort between officers from the flagship andthe provincial officials, and following it a boatcame up the bay and from it stepped one inclerical garb. A rumor ran through the crowd. What! Shades of the martyred Leisler andall ye other hallowed ones who died for the Prot-estant religion! A Jesuit ? ^lust such a foul in-sult as this be endured in our Protestant City ofNew York? To the jail with him— but therewithin sight lay La Renomee, her portholesbristling with fifty guns, and here was an apol-ogy for a fort, and—well, the crowd meltedaway, shaking its several heads, and Lieutenant-Governor John Nanf an acted as well as could be. PIKRRE LE MOYNE SIEUR D^IBERVILLE IN OLD NEW YORK 205 expected in the circumstances, and the unwel-come visitor was made welcome, and he, with theFrench agents, had their transportation to RhodeIsland arranged for by mine host Fran9ois Puil-lin, and left on their eastward journey. In Oc-tober, FitzJohn Winthrop wrote from Hart-ford, Connecticut, to Lord Bellomont: TheSuperior of the Jesuits and ye French gentle-men went from Mil ford the same day they ar-rived there with all accommodation which it is evident that DIberville was aname to conjure with and La Renomeesguns had a very long moral range. It is to beregretted that there is no record of the name ofthis Superior of the Jesuits or of the purpose ofhis journey from Louisiana eastward by way ofRhode Island. Bellomont was in Boston at thistime, and the Jesuit may have been the bearer ofa message from DIberville,
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