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SOURCES EARLY MICHIGAN HISTORY
1683 and 1684, whose letters were published in 1703, (but who, apparently, may be charged with a love for the marvelous) that a large number of females were introduced into the province after the French troops were disbanded. The following extract is from his third letter, dated at Beaupre, 3d May, 1684: "After the disbanding of these regiments there were dispatched from France several vessels loaded with ladies of a certain description under the direction of some old nuns, who had them divided into three classes. These vestals were, if I may be allowed the
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