Joseph Marest

Joseph Marest was a Jesuit missionary in New France in the late 1600s and early 1700s. He is known chiefly for remaining in Michilimackinac/ St. Ignace Mission as missionary to the Ottowas after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac moved the center of the French fur trade from Fort de Buade to Fort Detroit in 1701.[1]

Born in Chartres, France 19 March 1653 and died in Montreal, October 1725.[2] He served in the straits of Mackinaw from 1700 - 1714[3] at St. Ignace and Michilimackinac. He came to New France about 1686 and arrived at Michilimackinac in 1688. After serving in 1690 with Nicolas Perrot's failed mission the Sioux country,[4] Marest returned to the straits of mackinaw. Joseph Marest was the brother of Jesuit Pierre-Gabriel Marest, who served in the Illinois country.[5]

References

  1. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=GI2S0UuBjUAC&lpg=PA244&ots=EdCvWhgwoN&dq=Joseph%20Marest%20Mackinaw&pg=PA244#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Marest%20Mackinaw&f=false Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America By Philip Marchand p244
  2. ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/marest_joseph_jacques_2E.html Volume II (1701-1740) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  3. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=2SYUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=Joseph+Marest+Mackinaw&source=bl&ots=UtLilzyjib&sig=EOguOImiRaA24gDEO9aJvcGmdKw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUko3RyNfKAhUCXR4KHT5lAo8Q6AEINzAF#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Marest%20Mackinaw&f=false A History of Minnesota, Volume 1 By William Watts Folwell p44
  4. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=3yEUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA389&ots=IJC2Ilk5nw&dq=Joseph%20Marest%20jesuit%20missionary&pg=PA389#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Marest%20jesuit%20missionary&f=false
  5. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=EAK8mbtoXwUC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=Joseph+Marest+jesuit&source=bl&ots=I9PfK1Ran5&sig=MofhSZmH-v4kmvt2M0eRky743OY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ6vqJydfKAhVGWCYKHVxuBvQQ6AEIOTAE#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Marest%20jesuit&f=false The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America By Tracy Neal Leavelle p195


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