Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . priest at Chambly inthe same year. 3 Letter of Rev. Mr. Payet to Bishop Briand January 8, 1783. Hesigns as parish priest in the Register of St. Anns, Detroit, October 22, 1782, a few previous entries being signed merely priest. Father DuJaunay died in the same year, February 17. Rev. Peter Potier, bornApril 2, 1708, entered the Society September 28, 1729, came to Americain 1743. Martin, Catalogue des Membres de la Compagnie de Jesus,*No. 194. * Letter of Rev. Mr. Payet to Bishop Briand, July 13, 1783. V. RE
Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . priest at Chambly inthe same year. 3 Letter of Rev. Mr. Payet to Bishop Briand January 8, 1783. Hesigns as parish priest in the Register of St. Anns, Detroit, October 22, 1782, a few previous entries being signed merely priest. Father DuJaunay died in the same year, February 17. Rev. Peter Potier, bornApril 2, 1708, entered the Society September 28, 1729, came to Americain 1743. Martin, Catalogue des Membres de la Compagnie de Jesus,*No. 194. * Letter of Rev. Mr. Payet to Bishop Briand, July 13, 1783. V. REV. J. F. HUBERT. 185 Yicar-General of Quebec, extended over the Illinois country,and lie made attempts to meet the spiritual wants of the peo-ple from Yincennes to Kaskaskia; but the dangerous conditionof the country prevented his accomplishing much, for he ad-hered to England, while the Kev. Mr. Gibault, and the Catho-lics in the Illinois country, had recognized the United States,as their fellow believers had done in the East. The whole Catholic body in the United States was quick-. RT. REV. JOHN FRANCIS HUBERT, BISHOP OF QUEBEC. ened by hope of better days, and showed by their unswerv-ing fidelity from first to last how well they deserved clergy had never used any influence except for thenational cause, and the Rev. John Carroll was regarded asthe representative man among them. The American priestssympathized like their kinsmen in the struggle; the Ger-man priests had no attachment and no tie to bind them toEngland, and even the few born in Great Britain, whomight easily have left the country by entering the Eng-lish lines, clung to their flocks and to the land which 186 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CARROLL. Providence had appointed for their final labors. IsTot oneleft this country/ One priest in the West had during the war shown an act-ive zeal and energy in the cause of America. Tliis was theEev. Peter Gibault. We have seen the early labors of thispriest, who was sent to
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