... promoting the successful commerce of New France, then so much the better (Morton 16-18). It seems that religion was also used as a means of controlling certain alliances: "The French missionaries are said to have made use of singular methods to excite their flocks against the heretics. The Abenaki chief of Bomaseen, when a prisoner at Boston in 1696, declared that they told the Indians that Jesus Christ was a Frenchman, and his mother, the Virgin, a French lady; that the English had murdered him, and that the best way to gain his favor was to revenge his death" (Parkman 271). Early French settlers managed to make allies of the Algonquins and Hurons, and enemies of the Iroquois. A memoir sent to the Marquis de Seignelay noted the English alliance with Iroquois: "[The English] also employ the Iroquois to excite all our other Indians against us" (Essential Documents in American History ...

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