(also spelled Dreuillettes, Drouillettes, Drouillet, Droulletes, Drueillettes, Druilletes; 29 September 1610 – 8 April 1681) was a French Jesuit priest in New France who was an explorer, missionary to First Nations peoples and a diplomat.
Continuing down the river he arrived at the English post of Coussinoc, now Augusta, Maine around Michaelmas, where he met the agent, John Winslow, who became his life-long friend.
[4] From Coussinoc, Druillettes journeyed on until he reached the sea and then travelled along the coast as far as the Penobscot, where he was welcomed by the Capuchins who had established a mission there.
In 1650, Druillettes left Quebec as an envoy of the Government to negotiate a treaty at Boston with the Massachusetts Bay Colony for commercial purposes, as well as for mutual protection against the Iroquois.
He was received with great kindness by the principal men in the English colonies, notably by the missionary John Eliot, and by Major-General Gibbons, who kept him at his house.
Druillettes's party arrived in New Haven, Connecticut in early September to meet with Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England.
They paddled up the Saguenay, reached Lake St. John and continued their course up a tributary, which they called the River of the Blessed Sacrament, finally coming to Kekouba, which was 29 days from Tadoussac.
[2] In 1670 Druillettes was at Sault Sainte Marie and was one of those who participated with Claude-Jean Allouez and Jacques Marquette in the famous "taking possession" of the country by Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson in May 1671.