History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 6 Revolts in the Marianas, 1673-78

Levesque, Rodrigue. History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 6 Revolts in the Marianas, 1673-78. 6. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-06-0.

Abstract: Volume 6 (HOM.06) contains 62 chapters totaling about 95 documents (not counting the originals) covering all the activities of the Mariana Island Mission during this period. Two chapters give the first history of the mission (1667-1673) written by Father Coomans, one of the Belgian Jesuits. Full details are given about the Spanish government soldiers, the missionaries and their assistants, the native rebels, the battles and martyrdoms. Four more missionaries were killed by the natives during this period. The contents of HOM were compiled, translated, edited and annotated by Rodrigue Levesque. Rod located and made novel translations of thousands of documents between 1992 and 2002. These were organized in forty massive volumes, with only the first twenty being printed in physical, hardbound form. In 2022, the US nonprofit Habele obtained the copyrights to the full History of Micronesia series with the aim of offering free and navigable access to the public.