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	AllRefer.com - Jacques Marquette (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		In 1668 he was sent as a missionary to the Ottawa, spent a winter at Sault Ste Marie, and in 1669 reached La Pointe mission on Chequamegon Bay.
		They were the first to establish the existence of a water highway from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico.
		In 1674, Marquette set out to establish a mission in the Illinois (state) area, but his health failed him, and he died on the route back to Mackinac, near present-day Ludington, Mich. In 1677, Marquette's body was removed to St. Ignace.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MarquettJ.html (369 words)

	Louis Jolliet
		After a year's study of hydrography in France and some years as a trader and trapper on the Great Lakes, Jolliet was appointed (1672) as leader of an expedition in search of the Mississippi.
		He and Father Marquette, with five voyageurs, set out from St. Ignace in May, 1673, went to Green Bay, ascended the Fox River, portaged (at the site of Portage, Wis.) to the Wisconsin River, and descended to the Mississippi.
		Jolliet was rewarded with the gift of Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which was, however, seized by the British while Jolliet was absent on explorations in Labrador and around Hudson Bay.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0826540.html (465 words)

	Jacques Marquette
		Marquette welcomed his appointment by Frontenac, governor of New France, to accompany Louis
		On his return from the Mississippi voyage, Marquette stayed at Mackinac for a time, recovering his health and writing a journal of the voyage, which was first published (1681) in Thévenot's
		See edition (1900) of his journal in the
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0831931 (335 words)

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