Fort  Presque  Me,  where  Erie,  Pa.,  now  stands;
Fort  Lebenf,  at  Waterford,  on  Lake  Lebeuf;  Fort
Machault,  and  Fort  Venango,  at  the  confluence  of  the
Allegany  river  and  French  creek,  now  tlie  Oil  Begion ;
and  the  celebrated  Fort  I>uqne8ne,  where  Pittsbm^,
Pa.,  now  sta,nda~all  had  Eeoollects  for  their .  first
chaplains,  among  whom  was  Father  Emmaneul  Cres-
pel,  who  is  well  known  through  the  account  which  he
published  of  his  shipwreck.
The  KecoUects  continued  at  the  Fort  of  Detroit,
until  1782.  Father  Nicholas  Benedict  Constantine,  the
chaplain  in  1706,  became  a  victim  of  the  savages  in  an
encounter  between  the  different  tribes.
The  French  Eecollocts,  having  their  headquarters
at  the  convent  of  St  Mary  of  Afigels,  in  Quebec,  er-
tendod  their  operations  wherever  the  French  power
went  in  America,  even  to  the  extreme  north,  in  the
Island  of  St.  Pierre  and  filiquelon.  In  Newfoundland
the  ReeoUeeta  founded  a  convent  at  Placenzia,  in
1680,  and  the  memoirs  in  the  archives  of  Quebec,  re-
late that  Mons^nor  St  Valliar  made  an  episcopal  visi-
tation there  in  1689,  accompanied  by  Father  Georgeu
aud  other  Eecollects.
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C02  THE  raABcisc.uj  ordek.
Among  tlio  missions  of  the  French  Recolleete  are
also  those  of  Nova  Scotia,  the  ancient  Acadia.  The
KficoUecta  of  the  province  of  Aquitania,  in  1619,
commenced  a  mission  there,  eatahhshing  their  prin-
cipal stations  near  the  Eiver  St.  John.  Father  Le
Clereq  makes  a  passing  mention  of  this  mission,  in  his
work,  referring  the  reader  to  the  relation  which  they
pubHshed  of  the  same,  but  no  copy  of  it  can  now  be
found.  It  is  known  that  one  of  these  missionaries.
