In 1650, Plymouth Colony and Governor William Bradford received a visit from a French Jesuit, Father Gabriel Druillettes.  Druillettes was a missionary among the Abenakis along the Kennebec River.  He was sent by the Governor of Canada (then a French territory) to ask the New England colonies for their assistance in subduing the hostile Iroquois.  Druillettes' description of his visit to the New England colonies, Narre du Voyage..., is included in Volume 36 of the "Jesuit Relations" (La Mission des Jesuites chez les Hurons: 1634-1650).  Druillettes was kindly received in Boston and Plymouth but his mission was ultimately unsuccessful.

Druillettes' narration of his visit to Plymouth tells how his courteous reception extended as far as a dinner of fish on Friday.  This was in deference to Druillettes' Catholicism, even though days of abstinence were a custom abhorred by English Puritans.

I left Boston on the twenty-first of that month, December [1650], for Plimouth, where I arrived on the morrow, with my [-----] who lodged me with one of the five farmers of Koussinoc [Cushnoc], named padis [William Paddy].  The governor of the place, named Jehan Brentford [William Bradford], received me with courtesy, and appointed me an audience the next day; and he invited me to a dinner of fish, which he prepared on my account, knowing that it was Friday.  I found considerable favor in this settlement, for the farmers -- and among other the captain, Thomas Willets -- spoke to the governor in advocacy of my negotiation.

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