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Robert Griffing, Welcome to Logstown. 1999.
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In this modern rendition of the arrival of the French military  expedition at Logstown in 1749, painter Robert Griffing placed Father Joseph Pierre Bonnecamp, a Jesuit missionary, in the company of Shawnee warriors.  The distinctive cassocks worn by the Jesuits earned them the nickname "Black Robes" among the Indians

Credit: Painting by Robert Griffing; used by permission of Paramount Press, Inc.

In this modern rendition of the arrival of the French military expedition at Logstown in 1749, painter Robert Griffing placed Father Joseph Pierre Bonnecamp, a Jesuit missionary, in the company of Shawnee warriors. The distinctive cassocks worn by the Jesuits earned them the nickname "Black Robes" among the Indians.

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