The first real accounts of the Northeast have been recorded by the French priests who visited this area.  They were instructed to record accounts of their experiences to be sent back to France.  

I was lucky enough to find these volumes available from the Creighton University -  (http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/) They have been edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites Secretary of the State historical Society of Wisconsin, and the  computerized transcription was by Tomasz Mentrak.

I am going to attempt to search each of these and put in references by each that pertain to anything about the Andastes (French name for Susquehannocks), Carantouan, or anything else I may have added to this website, so check back from time to time...)

Be forewarned, some of this is quite gruesome.

• Vol. I - Acadia:1610-1613(reference Champlain)
• Vol. II - Acadia: 1612-1614
• Vol. III - Acadia: 1611–1616(reference Champlain)
• Vol. IV - Acadia & Quebec(reference Champlain)
• Vol. V - Quebec 1632 -1633(reference Champlain)
• Vol. VI - Quebec 1634 -1635(reference Champlain)
• Vol. VII - Québec, Hurons, and Cape Breton 1634 - 1635
• Vol. VIII
• Vol. IX - Quebec 1636(reference Champlain)
• Vol. X - Hurons 1636
• Vol. XI - 1637
• Vol. XII - Quebec 1637(reference Champlain)
• Vol. XIII - Hurons 1637(reference Champlain)
• Vol. XIV - Quebec, Hurons 1638 - (reference - who had brought it from the Andastoerhonon, a nation in the direction of Virginia. These tribes, it is said, had been infected therewith by Ataentsic, whom they hold to be the mother of him who made the earth; that she had passed through all the cabins of two villages, and that at the second they had asked her, Now, after all, why is it that thou makest us die?)
• Vol. XV - 1638 & 1639 - 
• Vol. XVI - Quebec, Hurons 1639
• Vol. XVII - Hurons and Three Rivers 1639-1640
• Vol. XVIII - Quebec, Hurons 1640 - (reference - Continuing to ascend this great river from the sault St. Louis, we find to the South very flourishing nations, all sedentary and very numerous, —such as the Agneehrono, the Oneiochronon, the [134] Onontaehronon, the Konkhandeenhronon, the Oniouenhronon, the Andastoehronon,)
• Vol. XIX - Quebec, Hurons 1640
• Vol. XX - 1640 - 1641
• Vol. XXI - Quebec, Hurons 1641 - 1642
• Vol. XXII - Quebec, Hurons 1642
• Vol. XXIII - Quebec, Hurons, Iroquois 1642 - 1643
• Vol. XXIV - Lower Canada, Iroquois 1642 - 1643
• Vol. XXV - Iroquois, Huron, Quebec 1642 - 1644
• Vol. XXVI - Lower Canada, Hurons 1642 - 1644
• Vol. XXVII - Lower Canada, Hurons 1642 - 1645 - (reference Andastes)
• Vol. XXVIII - Lower Canada, Iroquois, Hurons 1645 - 1646
• Vol. XXIX - Lower Canada, Iroquois, Hurons 1646
• Vol. XXX Lower Canada, Hurons 1647 - 1669(reference - Seven or eight years ago, we had here baptized an Andastoëronnon (these are tribes of the Huron language, who live in Virginia, where the English have their trade).
• Vol. XXXI - Iroquois, Lower Canada, Abenakis 1647
• Vol. XXXII Gaspe, Hurons, Lower Canada 1647 - 1648
• Vol. XXXIII Lower Canada, Algonkins, Hurons 1648 - 1649(reference Andastes)
• Vol. XXXIV Misc. 1649
• Vol. XXXV Misc. 1650
• Vol. XXXVI Lower Canada, Abenakis 1650 - 1651
• Vol. XXXVII Lower Canada, Abenakis 1651 - 1652
• Vol. XXXVIII Lower Canada, Abenakis, Hurons 1652 - 1653
• Vol. XXXIX Misc.
• Vol. XL Iroquois, Lower Canada
• Vol. LXI Lower Canada, Iroquois 1654 - 1656
• Vol. XLII Lower Canada, Iroquois 1656 - 1657
• Vol. XLIII Misc
• Vol. XLIV Iroquois, Lower Canada 1656 - 1657
• Vol. XLV Lower Canada, Arcadia, Iroquois, Ottawas 1659 - 1660(reference Andastes)
• Vol. XLVI Lower Canada, Ottawa, Canadian Interior 1659 - 1661
• Vol. XLVII Iroquois, Lower Canada 1661 - 1663
• Vol. XLVIII Lower Canada, Ottawas 1662 - 1664(reference Andastes)
• Vol XLIX Lower Canada, Iroquois 1663 - 1665
• Vol. L Lower Canada, Iroqupis, Ottawas 1664 - 1667(reference Champlain)
• Vol. LI  - Misc
• Vol LII Lower Canada, Iroqupis, Ottowas 1667 - 1669
• Vol LIII Lower Canada, Iroqupis, Ottawas 1667 - 1669
• Vol LIV  - Iroquois, Ottawas, Lower Canada 1669 - 1671 - (reference to Onnontioga - - (onnon = people of, tioga = where rivers meet)), (reference Andastes)
• Vol. LV Lower Canada, Iroquois, Ottawas 1670—1672 (reference to Andastogué)
• Vol. LVI Lower Canada, Iroquois, Ottawas 1671—1672 (reference to Andaste ; two war-parties were defeated by a band of Andastes boys) -(& reference - Gandastógués)
• Vol. LVII Lower Canada, Iroquois, Ottawas 1672—1673 - (reference - "Andastogué, who are the only enemies that the iroquois now have Upon their hands." & reference “Two Andastoguez who were captured by The Iroquois were more fortunate. They received baptism Immediately before The Red-hot irons were applied to Them....")
• Vol. LVIII Ottawas Lower Canada, Iroquois, 1667—1669 - (reference - Three were Andastes captured in war; Father de Carheil had time to instruct them before they were burned...)
• Vol. LIX. Lower Canada, Illinois, Ottawas 1667—1669 - (reference - The Senecas also are intolerably insolent since they defeated the Andastes... & among these were some captives from Andastogué whom he baptized amid the fires in which they died....& In fact, since the Sonnontouans have utterly defeated the Andastogués, their ancient and most redoubtable foes, their insolence knows no bounds;...)
• Vol. LX. Lower Canada, Illinois, Iroquois, Ottawas 1675—1677 - (reference - Since those Barbarians have at Last succeeded in Exterminating the Andastoguetz, who had held out against them for over 20 years, they have become so insolent that they talk only of breaking the missionaries’ heads, by way of beginning hostilities....)
• Vol. LXI.All Missions 1677—1680 
• Vol. LXII.Lower Canada, Iroquois, Ottawas 1681—1683 - (reference - Consequently, the utmost efforts must be made to prevent them(Iroquois) from ruining the nations, as they have heretofore ruined the Algonquins, Andastaz, Loups, Abénaquis, and others, whose remnants we have at the settlements of Sillery, Laurette, Lake Champlain, and others, scattered among us...)
• Vol. LXIV.Lower Canada, Iroquois 1667—1687 - (reference - In this little company of savages there were men of different languages: one was of the chat nation, another was a huron; some were free iroquois, others Gandastogues; and now the mission is made up of over ten or twelve nations, who all speak iroquois...)
• Vol. LXIV. Ottawas, Lower Canada, Iroquois, 1689—1695 
• Vol. LXV. Lower Canada, Mississippi Valley 1696—1702
• Vol. LXVI. Illinois, Louisiana, Iroquois, Lower Canada 1667—1669
• Vol. LXVII. Lower Canada, Abenakis, Louisiana 1716—1727
• Vol. LXVIII. Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana 1720—1736
• Vol. LIX. Lower Canada, Illinois, Ottawas 1667—1669
• Vol. LXX. Lower Canada, Illinois, Ottawas 1667—1669
• Vol. LXXI. Lower Canada, Illinois 1759—1791
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