CADILLAC.
CADWALADER.
attempt tx) induce his return to Spain, On Feb.
23, loot), a new company was formed and Cabot
made nresident. The expedition was sent off tlie
next spring, and on May 25, 1557, his resignation
of tlie pension and its re-issue two days later ends
the recorded accounts of this remarkable charac-
ter. Cabofs '• mappemonde, " the original of
which was drawn on parcliment and illuminated
■with gold and colors, served as the model for all
the general maps of the world afterward published
in Italy. The only extant account of his death is
that by his friend Eden, who writes: "Sebastian
Cabot on his death-bed told me that he had
knowledge [of the art of finding longitude] by
divine revelation, yet so that he myght not teach
any man. But I think that the goode olde man
in that extreme age somewhat doted, and had
not yet, even in the article of death, utterly
sliaken of (sic) aU worldly vayne glorie." See
Biddle's Memoir of Sebastian Cabot (London
and Pliiladelphia. 1831). and Harrisse's Jean
and Sebastian Cabot (Paris, 1882). The place
and date of his death are also unknown, but he
is believed to have died in London, at some time
immediately subsequent to 1557.
CADILLAC, Antoine de la Mothe, founder of Detroit, was born in France some time between 1657 and 1661 ; he was the son of Jean de la Mothe, Seigneur Cadillac, de Launay, de Semon- tel and Jeanne de 3Ialenfant. He was well educated, was a cadet in the regiment of Dam- piferre-Lorraine, and a lieutenant in the regiment of Clairembault in 1677. In 1683 he visited New France and settled at Port Royal, where he mar- ried Marie Therese, daughter of Denys Guyon of Quebec. July 23, 1688, he received a grant of land called Donaquec, in the present state of Maine, and a part of the Island of Mount Desert. He determined to use the dowry his wife had brought him in founding an establisliment on this land, and probably went to live there in 1688. He accompanied Calliferesand Frontenac when they set out to take New York, and drive the English from New England, according to Calliferes' programme. On reaching the harbor of New York and finding that the project had been abandoned, they set sail for France, and dur- ing the next seven months CadiUac remained in attendance at court. He returned to Canada with a letter of recommendation to Frontenac from the king, and, in obedience to the wishes of the monarch, he was made lieutenant of the troops in the colony. In April, 1692, the king sent for him to come to France and give information that might help the French to gain possession of New England; and CadiUac drew up a report that displayed extensive knowledge of the entire coast with its fortifications, harbors, depths of bays, soundings of rivers, villages, and traits of
character of the inhabitants. This report is in the
French archives. In 1694 Frontenac sent him to
command the Indians at Mackinac, where he
remained until 1697, when he was recalled at his-
own desire. Investigation had convinced him
that a fort on the Detroit river was necessary to
repel the English. He had some difficulty in
convincing the new governor, de Calliferes, of its
practicability, but finally, through his own great
influence at the French ooiu't, a commission was
granted him. On June 2, 1701, he set out from
Montreal with one hundred men, fifty soldiers,
fifty civilians, two Catholic priests, one. Father
Vaillant, being a Jesuit. July 24, 1701, with a
fleet of twenty-five birchen boats, he entered the
Detroit river. At a point in the river where the
broad stream narrows to about half a mile, the
canoes were drawn up, and the voyagers as-
cended r. level plateau to a lieight of abov.t fifty
feet, and formed a temporary encampment.
Within two days he had laid the foundation of a
church, staked out the groimd for a fort and
.stockade, and begim house building. By the
close of the following month the chapel, the fort,
and dwellings for the .settlers were erected. His
wife liad been left behind in Quebec, and her
bravery and wifely devotion in journeying
through a thousand miles of wilderness has few
parallels in historj-. With Detroit as his capital,
Cadillac assumed the governorship of a large
territory, encouraged his soldiers to marry the
young Indian women, and colonized the Indians
about him in friendly settlements. He contin-
ued in possession from 1705 imtil 1710, when he
was appointed governor of Louisiana. His prop-
erty in Detroit was taken without compensation
by La Forest, his successor. He sailed to France,
and, returning with a shipload of marriageable
girls to become wives of his colonists, arrived
in Louisiana, June 15, 1713 (Margry says 1712)
and founded Natchez. In March, 1717, another
was appointed to succeed him, and little is known
of this energetic colonizer after he returned to
France. His grand-daughter, Madame Gregoire,
in 1787, was allowed by the commonwealth of
JIassachusetts all of Mount Desert Island that
had not been granted to others. He died in
France, Oct. 18. 1730. .
CADWALADER, George, soldier, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1804; son of Gen. Thomas- Cadwalader, a distinguished soldier. He was educated in the schools of Philadelphia, and was engaged for many years in the practice of medi- cine. He entered the Mexican war as briga- dier-general of volunteers, and was breve tted major-general for especial gallantry at the battle of Chapultepec. He continued to practise medi- cine in Pliiladelphia until the outbreak of the civil war, when Governor Curtin appointed him
