The word Onnota, which signifies, in the Iroquois tongue, a Mountain, has given the name to the village called Onnontae, or as others call it, Onnontague, because it is on a mountain ;
and the people
who inhabit it consequently style themselves Onnontae-ronnons, or Onnontague-ronnons.
These
people have for a long time and earnestly demanded that some priests of our Society be sent 1655.
to their country.
Finally, Father Joseph Chaumont and Father Claude Dablon were granted
to them, in the year 1655. 5 th
They embarked on the 19 th Sept., and arrived at Onnontague the
November of the same year 1655.
1656.
These two good fathers finding themselves listened to with approval and kindness, Father Dablon left Onnontague" on the second day of March of the following year 1656, to look for help at Quebec, where lie arrived in the beginning of April, and departed thence on the 17th
May, in company with three Fathers and two brothers of the Society, and a good number of Frenchmen, who all proceeded towards this new country, where they arrived on the ID" day of July of the same year, 1656. In the year 1657, the harvest appearing plentiful in all the villages of the upper Iroquois, 1657.
the common people listening to the words of the gospel with simplicity and the Chiefs with a
well disguised dissimulation, Father Paul Ragueneau, Father Francois
Du Peron, some
Frenchmen and several Hurons, departed from Montreal the 26 th July, to aid their brethren and compatriots.