[59] A memorable Indian Council was held in the court of the Jesuits'
College, on 31st August, 1666.
[60] Mr. Faucher de Saint Maurice having been, in 1878, charged by the
Premier, Hon. Mr. Joly, to watch the excavations and note the discoveries,
in a luminous report, sums up the whole case. From this document, among
other things, we glean that the remains of the three persons of male sex
are those of:
1. Pere Francois du Peron, who died at Fort St. Louys (Chambly) 10th
November, 1665, and was conveyed to Quebec for burial.
2. Pere Jean de Quen, the discoverer of Lake St. John, who died at
Quebec, on 8th October, 1659, from the effects of a fever contracted
in attending on some of the passengers brought here that summer by
the French ship "Saint Andre."
3. Frere Jean Liegeois, scalped 29th May, 1655, by the Agniers at
Sillery - (the historian Ferland assigns as the probable spot, the
land on which the late Lieutenant-Governor Caron built his mansion
"Clermont," now occupied by Thomas Beckett, Esquire.) The remains of
this missionary, when excavated, were headless - which exactly agrees
with the entry in the Jesuits' Journal, May, 1655, which
states that Jean Liegeois was scalped - his head cut off and left at
Sillery, while his mutilated body, discovered the next day by the
Algonquins, the allies of the French, was brought to Sillery,
(probably the Jesuits' residence, the same solid old structure close
to the foundations of the Jesuits' chapel and monument at the foot of
the Sillery Hill, which many here have seen), from whence it was
conveyed to the Lower Town in a boat and escorted to the Jesuits'
College, with the ceremonies of the R. C. Church.
