Note 24 — Biographical Note.

“Sixteen or seventeen years,” as he says in his Journal, under date of July, 1684; “so that, as he could hardly have entered the service before the age of 18 or 20, he must have been, at the time he linked his fortunes to those of La Salle, about 35 or 37 years old—hence born, probably, about 1643–5.”