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Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636?-1710) was many men. He was a teenager captured, tortured, and adopted by the Mohawk, and a youth relishing the freedom of the wilderness. He was the French-born servant of an ambitious English trading company and a hapless petitioner at the court of Louis XIV. He was a central figure in the tug-of-war between France and England over Hudson Bay and a pretender to aristocratic status who had to defend his actions before James II. Finally, he was a retired "sea captain" trying to provide for his children, and despite the pension he had fought for, the "decay'd Gentleman" described in his burial record. Radisson's writings, characterized by hubris and contradiction, provoke many questions. Was he a semi-literate woodsman? Are his accounts of Native life ethnographically reliable? Can he be trusted to tell the truth about himself? How important were his explorations? In this first volume of Radisson's complete writings, Germaine Warkentin introduces the life, travels, motivations, and work of this compelling and complicated figure while providing a comprehensive and authoritative edition of his masterpiece - The Voyages. In the four accounts of his travels to the far interior of the Great Lakes and James Bay, Radisson vibrantly depicts his life among the Mohawk, his encounters and relationships with Native peoples, Jesuits, English, French, and Dutch colonists and traders, as well as the hazards of the capricious politics of the New World and the thrilling surprise of discoveries. Striking a superb balance between accessible writing and comprehensive scholarship, this new edition of Radisson's Voyages is indispensable, definitive, and reasserts the important roles that Radisson played in seventeenth-century North American rivalries.
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Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636?-1710) was many men. He was a teenager captured, tortured, and adopted by the Mohawk, and a youth relishing the freedom of the wilderness. He was the French-born servant of an ambitious English trading company and a hapless petitioner at the court of Louis XIV. He was a central figure in the tug-of-war between France and England over Hudson Bay and a pretender to aristocratic status who had to defend his actions before James II. Finally, he was a retired "sea captain" trying to provide for his children, and despite the pension he had fought for, the "decay'd Gentleman" described in his burial record. Radisson's writings, characterized by hubris and contradiction, provoke many questions. Was he a semi-literate woodsman? Are his accounts of Native life ethnographically reliable? Can he be trusted to tell the truth about himself? How important were his explorations? All these questions are raised in this first critical edition of Radisson?s writings in both English and French, which includes previously unknown documents. Volume 1 follows Radisson's account of the decade he spent, in part with his brother-in-law Médard Des Groseilliers, exploring far into the interior of North America. In Volume 2, Radisson recounts his part in the battle over possession of Hudson Bay waged in the 1680s by England and France, his difficulties at the French and English courts, and his struggle with the Hudson's Bay Company for his just reward. Striking a superb balance between accessible writing and comprehensive scholarship, this new edition of Radisson's writing is indispensable, definitive, and reasserts the important roles that Radisson played in seventeenth-century North American rivalries.
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Pierre Esprit Radisson was born on 1636 in France; his parents were probably Pierre Esprit Radisson, of a family identified with Lyons and its vicinity, and his wife, Madeleine Hainault, who seem to have been living in Paris at the time of young Pierre's birth.
About 1651 he arrived in Canada, and the following year, while hunting near Three Rivers, he was captured and adopted by some wandering Iroquois. He accompanied his captors on a journey to the trading post at Fort Orange (Albany), where he might have escaped, but, "being that it was my destiny to discover many wild nations, " as he said, "I would not strive against destinie", and he returned with the Indians to their village.
Before long, however, he made his escape, went back to Fort Orange, was sent by the commander to New Amsterdam, and sailed for Europe, reaching La Rochelle early in 1654. Later in the spring of that year he returned to Three Rivers. In 1653 his widowed half-sister, Marguerite (Hayet), who had been living for some time at Three Rivers, married Medard Chouart, known as Sieur des Groseilliers, and during the next two years Radisson may have made a trip to the West with his brother-in-law.
In 1657 he joined an expedition to plant a French colony in the Onondaga country, and in 1659, made another western journey with Groseilliers, in the course of which he may have reached the upper Mississippi. During these years in the forest Radisson and his brother-in-law became aware of the significance of the beaver trade of inland North America and recognized the importance of controlling either or both of the main exits for that trade - New York and Hudson Bay. The governor of Canada had desired them to take two of his men with them on their western trip in 1659, to share the profits, but Radisson and Groseilliers indignantly refused, and departed in defiance of the governor. Hence, upon their return in 1660, their furs were confiscated and they were heavily fined.
In anger, after a futile visit by Groseilliers to France, the two entered the service of the English at Port Royal and Boston. At least one contemporary attributed the English conquest of New Amsterdam to Radisson and his knowledge of how the fur trade might be controlled through the Iroquois. In the employ of New Englanders, Radisson and Groseilliers made a journey to the entrance of Hudson's Straits. In 1665 they were sent by the King's commissioners to England, where their enthusiastic reports of the new region led to the founding, under the patronage of King Charles II, of the Hudson's Bay Company, chartered in 1670.
Radisson visited Hudson Bay in 1670 and 1672, but in 1674, with his brother-in-law, resumed his French connections. He served in the French fleet in campaigns against Guinea and Tobago. In 1681 he was residing in Quebec, according to census records.
He died in 1710.
The decision of Radisson and Groseilliers to enter the English service led to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company. His career was particularly notable for its repeated transitions between serving Britain and France. Presumably for his employers, Radisson wrote accounts of his voyages, most of them in vigorous, picturesque, though extremely faulty, English. They are valuable for their vivid portrayal of the life of the northern country in the early days of the coureur de bois rather than for dates or accurate information regarding the routes of the explorers. The manuscript narratives of the voyages of 1652, 1654, 1657, and 1659 are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; that of 1682-83, in French, is in Hudson's Bay House; a translation of the last named and the narrative of 1684 are in the British Museum. In 1885 the English accounts and a translation of the French manuscript were edited by Gideon D. Scull for the Prince Society and published under the title, Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, while Report on Canadian Archives 1895 (1896) contains the French account, with an English translation.
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In England (1672), he had married Mary Kirke, a daughter of Sir John Kirke.
