Father Jacques Marquette:

The introductory materials for this online essay were adapted from a 1997 article by James H. Schultz that appeared in Michigan History magazine. The text of Father Marquette's journal was adapted--with a minimum of changes--from a 1902 English translation edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites.

Background:

• Who was Father Marquette?
• Legends of Marquette
• Travels of Marquette and Jolliet
• About Marquette's Journal

Marquette's Journal, Part One:

• Section I: Departure of Father Jacques Marquette for the Discovery of the Great River Called by the Savages Missisipi, Which Leads to New Mexico.
• Section II: The Father Visits, In Passing, the Tribes of the Folle Avoine. What That Folle Avoine Is. He Enters the Bay Des Puants; Some Particulars About That Bay. He Arrives Among The Fire Nation.
• Section III: Description of the Village of Maskoutens; What Passed There Between the Father and teh Savages. The French Begin to Enter A New And Unknown Country, And Arrive At Missisipi.
• Section IV: Of the Great River Called Missipi; Its Most Notable Features; Of Various Animals, and Especially the Pisikious or Wild Cattle, Their Shape and Nature; Of the First Vilages of the Ilinois, Where the French Arrived
• Section V: How the Ilinois Received the Father in Their Village
• Section VI: Of the Character of the Ilinois; Of Their Habits and Customs; And of the Esteem That They Have for the Calumet, or Tobacco-Pipe, And of the Dance They Perform in its Honor
• Section VII: Departure of the Father from the Ilinois; Of the Painted Monsters Which He Saw Upon the Great River Missisipi; Of the River Pekitanoui. Continuation of the Voyage.
• Section VIII: Of the New Countries Discovered by the Father. Various Particulars. Meeting with Some Savages. First News of the Sea and of Europeans. Great Danger Avoided By Means of the Calumet.
• Section IX: Reception Given to the French in the Last Village Which They Saw. The Manners and Customs of Those Savages. Reasons for not Going Farther
• Section X: Return of the Father and of the French Baptism of a Dying Child

Marquette's Journal, Part Two

• Section I: Unfinished Journal of Father Jacques Marquette, Addressed to the Reverend Father Claude Dablon, Superior of the Missions.

Marquette's Journal, Part Three

• Section I: Narrative of the 2nd Voyage That Father Marquette Made to the Ilinois. He reaches Them, Notwithstanding His Illness, and Begins the Mission of La Conception
• Section II: The Father is Compelled to Leave His Ilinois Mission. His Last Illness. His Precious Death in the Heart of the Forest.
• Section III: What Occurred at the Removal of the Bones of the Late Father Marquette, Which Were Taken From His Grave on the 19th of May, 1677, The Same Day as That On Which He Died in the Year 1675. A Brief Summary of His Virtues