[m'lennan] death of DULHUT 4S 



In 1695, through the intercession of the Iroquoise, Catherine 

 Tiegahkouita, he was relieved of his sufferings for a term of fifteen 

 months after twenty-jEive years of martyrdom with attacks that some- 

 times lasted for three months without relief. In 1696 all are reported 

 well at Fort Frontenac with the exception of Dulhut " who is snffering 

 from his gout." 



The latest trace I could find of Dulhut when I wrote my first article 

 was in 1707, when Tonti relieved him at Detroit, and then the brief 

 mention of his death in Vaudreuil^s letter of 1710, stating that he had 

 died during the previous winter. 



I then accepted the general Oipinion that he had died somewhere in 

 the West but last year a happy chance gave me the trace of his wUl and 

 then I found that during the afternoon of the fourth day of March, 

 1709, Maître Michel LePailleur, Koyal Notary for the Island of Mon- 

 treal, with his two witnesses went to the house of Charles Delaunay, 

 master tanner, where in a lower room giving on St. Paul Street they 

 found " Daniel de Grey&olon, escuyer, Sieur Dulhut, capitaine d^une 

 compagnie des troupes du détachement de la Marine " seated in his arm- 

 chair much troubled by his gout, who, considering " there is nothing 

 more certain than death or more uncertain than the hour thereof," re- 

 quested ]\Iaitre licPailleur to make his will. 



He commends his soul to God, to the Virgin, to St. Michael, the 

 Archangel and to all other Saints of Paradise. He wishes to be buried 

 in the church of the Recollets' (which stood until 1866, at the corner of 

 Notre Dame and St. Helen Streets). He makes legacies in favour of 

 the Recollets, the Sulpitians and the Jesuits. He leaves five hundred 

 livres (equal to as many dollars of to-day) to Charles, the five-year old 

 son of his landlord, as well as all his furniture and personal effects, and 

 the residue of his estate he bequeathes to his heirs-at-law in such pro- 

 portions as his brother La Tourette may decide. 



He lived through that year, but when Maître LePailleur came again 

 on the 12th February, 1710, accompanied by M. de la Chassaigne, for- 

 merly governor of Three Rivers, Charles Le Moyne, Baron de Longueuil, 

 Antoine Forestier, surgeon, and St. Olive, apothecary, they found poor 

 M. Dulhut no longer able to sit up and very ill indeed. He then altered 

 his will. He bequeathed three hundred livres over and above any wages 

 which may be due at the time of his death to his valet La Roche " for 

 the great care and trouble he has had of him during his long illness." 

 He leaves to Mme deLaunay and to her children all debts due to him 

 especially those due by her husband, and, repeating '' Have pity upon 

 me, God, according to Thy great mercy " he signed before the notary 

 and witnesses. 



