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DAVION, Antony, clergyman, born in Issigny, Normandy; died in New Orleans in 1727. He was educated in the seminary of the Foreign missions, Paris, and after his ordination embarked for Quebec in 1690. He was appointed pastor of a Church in Quebec, and continued a year in this place, in the early part of 1700 he went to the Mississippi, and in July reached Biloxi. He then labored among the Tonica tribe, but after a time was compelled to take refuge in a French fort. In 1704 the Tonicas sent deputies to Mobile, where he was stationed, begging him to come back to them, and he returned. He was allowed to preach without interruption, but, finding them deaf to his appeals, he destroyed their temple and quenched their sacred fires. He was at once compelled to fly from the village; but the Tonicas had become very much attached to him, and invited him to return again. He made few converts among them, although he persuaded the chief to be baptized in 1716 and to wear European costume. On leaving the Tonicas he went to New Orleans.
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