Note 102 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

[See Vol. IV. pp. 199, 316. The book forms no. 8 of Munsell’s Historical Series. See accounts of Le Sueur and other explorers of the Upper Mississippi in Neill’s Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota. There are extracts from Le Sueur’s Journal in La Harpe’s Journal historique and in French’s Historical Collections of Louisiana, part iii.; and in the new series (p. 35 of vol. vi.) of the same Collections is a translation of Penicaut’s Annals of Louisiana from 1698 to 1722. The translation was made from a manuscript in the National Library at Paris. Kaskaskia in Illinois is looked upon as the earliest European settlement in the Mississippi Valley; it was founded by Jacques Gravier in 1700. Cf. Magazine of American History, March, 1881. There had been an Indian town on the spot previously, and Father Marquette made it his farthest point in 1675.—Ed.]