Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . 14, 1794, Kev. says: I must request your Grace v^iU please to letCardinal Antonelli know that a most favorable occasion ofsending a missionary to the upper Country has happened, 1 Rev. Edmund Burke to Most Rev. John Troy, December 31, 1790. You must admit, my Lord, that teaching the catechism is a more ra-tional employment for a priest than giving lectures on Astronomy. Iwould most willingly return to the ministry. There is a vast extent ofcountry north of the lakes, beginning at Lake Ontario and r
Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . 14, 1794, Kev. says: I must request your Grace v^iU please to letCardinal Antonelli know that a most favorable occasion ofsending a missionary to the upper Country has happened, 1 Rev. Edmund Burke to Most Rev. John Troy, December 31, 1790. You must admit, my Lord, that teaching the catechism is a more ra-tional employment for a priest than giving lectures on Astronomy. Iwould most willingly return to the ministry. There is a vast extent ofcountry north of the lakes, beginning at Lake Ontario and running west-ward to Lake Minitti and thence to the Pacific Ocean, possessed orclaimed by England, in which tho there are a great number of posts andseveral Indian villages whose inhabitants are Catholics, there is not, norhas there been, a single missionary since the conquest of this was some exaggeration, but the real condition was bad Letter of Bishop of Quebec to Cardinal Antonelli, October 25,1791. * Bishop Hubert to Cardinal Antonelli, October 25, PORTRAIT OF RT. REV. EDMUND BURKE, BISHOP OP SION, AND V. A>OP NOVA SCOTIA. (476) REV. EDMUND BURKE. 477 and the Bishop, in comphance with his Eminences orders,has immediately appointed your humble servant. Many inthe diocese would have hlled the place with greater ad-vantage. Before the close of the year he was officiating at KaisinRiver, which he had been specially commissioned to he dedicated the Church of St. Anthony of Padua/Meanwhile Waynes victory over the Miamis had caused theIndians to waver in their adherence to England. The Burke then proceeded to Fort Miami, a post erected bythe British on the northwestern bank of the Maumee River,near the present site of Perrysburg. His house was on thebanks of the river, within a few miles of the fort. Here hebegan to fit himself to direct the Ottawas, Chippewas, andPottawatomies, by a study of their language, the Englishgovernm
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