Deliette, Sieur Pierre. Paper, 1721 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

Title: Deliette, Sieur Pierre. Paper, 1721

Collection identifier: 587

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The Sieur Pierre Deliette, who arrived in the Illinois country in 1687, wrote this narrative known as the DeGannes Memoir. An early account of the Illinois country and the Illinois Native Americans, it is published in The French Foundations, 1680-1693, ed. Theodore Calvin Pease and Raymond C. Werner, Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, 23 (1934) [IHR: 977 IL6].

This photostat was made from the original in the Newberry Library.