Legal documents concerning the inventory of the estate of Jean Nicollet : Fort St. Louis [Québec, Québec], 1642 Nov. 27-1643 April 30.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Prévost, Martin, ca. 1611-1691.

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Nicollet, Jean, 1598-1642.

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Interpreter and clerk for the Compagnie de la Nouvelle France, explorer, and liaison officer between the French and the Indians. Nicollet arrived in Canada in 1618, and, at the request of Champlain, spent two years at Allumette Island in the Ottawa River, learning the Huron and Algonkin languages. After nine years among the Nipissings, and four years in Huron country, he settled in Trois-Rivières and Québec in 1633 as a clerk of the Compagnie. Between 1634 and 1635, he...

Nicollet, Pierre.

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Compagnie des Cent-Associés

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Couillard, Guillaume, 1634 or 5-1661 or 2.

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Nicollet family.

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Couillard, Marguerite.

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Piraube, Martial.

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Couillard, Marguerite, fl. 1637-1643.

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