Letter : Residence de la Conception-aux-Hurons, to M. le curé St. Martin, à Beauvais [France], 1639 May 25.

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Letter : Residence de la Conception-aux-Hurons, to M. le curé St. Martin, à Beauvais [France], 1639 May 25.

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Autograph letter, dated May 25, 1639 in La Conception, the Jesuit residence in the Huron village of Ossossané (near Fort Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Ontario), to Monsieur St. Martin, curé in Beauvais, France, from his cousin, Simon Le Moyne.

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