Pierre-Joseph Céloron de Blainville papers, , 1719,1749.

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Pierre-Joseph Céloron de Blainville papers, , 1719,1749.

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Trading agreement between Céloron and Charles Sureau for trade at Detroit (photocopy; Montreal; May 5, 1719; English translation by L.O. Waltz); together with a diary of an expedition to the Ohio River Valley in 1749, giving a daily record of the route followed and incidents leading to taking possession of the country in the name of Louis XV (58 p.; typescript, English translation by Edmond De Hennetot.

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Sureau, Charles

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Hennetot, Edmond de.

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Waltz, L.O.

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Céloron de Blainville, Pierre-Joseph 1693-1759

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Born at Montreal, December 29, 1693; entered military service, 1713; was sent to Mackinac 1734-40; was sent to Detroit as commandant, 1742-1753; but was in the meantime several times at Quebec and Montreal; commanded at Niagara; was sent by Galissoniere, governor of Canada, to take possession of the Ohio River Valley for France, 1749; removed from Detroit and appointed Major at Montreal, 1753; died there, April 14, 1759. (from Mich. Pion. Coll. v. 34, p. 327-333 ; Burton Hist. Coll. Leaflet, v. ...