[61] Three Nuns Of The Hotel-Dieu Convent, According To Authorities Quoted By Mr. Faucher, Were Buried In The Vault (Caveau) Of The Jesuits' Chapel.

The sisterhood had been allowed the use of a wing of the Jesuits' College, where they removed after the conflagration of the 7th June, 1755, which destroyed their hospital.

4. Mere Marie Marthe Desroches de Saint-Francois-Xavier, a young woman of 28 years, who succumbed to small-pox on the 16th August, 1755.

5. Mere de l'Enfant-Jesus, who expired on the 12th May, 1756.

6. Mere de Saint-Monique, who died in July, 1756, the victim of her devotion in ministering to the decimated crew of the ship "Leopard," sunk in the port by order of Government to arrest the spread of the pestilential disease which had raged on the passage. Mr. Faucher closes his able report with a suggestion that a monument ought to be raised, to commemorate the labours and devotion of the Jesuits, on the denuded area on which stood their venerable College.

Relation de ce qui s'est passe lors des Fouilles faites par ordre du Gouvernement dans une partie des fondations du COLLEGE DES JESUITES de Quebec, precedee de certaines observations par FAUCHER DE SAINT MAURICE. Quebec. C. Darveau - 1879.

[62] Pierre DuCalvet was sent under warrant of Gen. Haldimand, a prisoner on 29th September, 1780, on board the "Canceaux." He was then removed on 14th November, 1780, to the Military prison in Quebec, where he remained until the 13th December, 1781, when the Provost Martial, Miles Prentice placed him at the Franciscan convent, under the charge of Father DeBerey, where he remained until the 2nd May, 1784. He followed Governor Haldimand who had sailed in the "Atalante" on the 26th November, 1784, to England, to sue him in an English Court of Justice for illegal arrest, and was lost at sea in the "Shelburne" on his return to Canada.

[63] The following inscription was on the coffin plate:

(1) Count Frontenac - "Cy gyt le Haut et Puissant Seigneur, Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, Gouverneur-General de la Nouvelle-France. Mort a Quebec, le 28 novembre 1698." - (Hist. of Canada, Smith, Vol. 1, p. 133.)

(2) Gov de Callieres. - "Cy gyst Haut et Puissant Seigneur, Hector de Callieres, Chevalier de Saint-Louis, Gouverneur et Lieutenant- General de la Nouvelle-France, decede le 26 mai 1703." - (Ibid., p. 148.)

(3) Gov. de Vaudreuil. - "Cy gist Haut et Puissant Seigneur, Messire Philippe Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, Grande Croix de l'Ordre Militaire de Saint-Louis, Gouverneur et Lieutenant-General de toute la Nouvelle-France decede le dixieme octobre 1725." - (Ibid., p. 190.)

(4) M. de la Jonquiere - "Cy repose le corps de Messire Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel, Marquis de la Jonquiere, Baron de Castlenau, Seigneur de Hardars-magnas et autres lieux, Commandeur de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis, Chef d'Escadre des Armees Navales, Gouverneur et Lieutenant-General poor le Roy en tout la Nouvelle- France, terres et passes de la Louisiane.

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