Note 52 — Front matter

At the best information concerning the expedition of Le Sueur is scant. The most important source is the work of one Penicaut, Perricaut or Perricault (see A. McF. Davis in Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History, Vol. V, page 71), a carpenter who accompanied the Iberville party from France in 1698 and remained in Louisiana until 1781. The most complete form in which we are able to read the Journal is in Margry’s Découvertes et Etablissements des Francais dans l’Ouest et dans le Sud de l’Amerique Septentrionale, Vol. V, page 319 et seq. Penicaut’s Annals of Louisiana (1698-1722) are translated in their entirety in French’s Hist. Coll. of Louisiana, New Series, Vol. I, but this translation must be read with caution as French was not the most careful of translators.