This article examines evidence about Jacques Hertel and his purported Mohawk daughters. The three main evidences are 1) the existence of the Hertel Legend, 2) the name Jacques, and 3) the near unanimous rule of thumb among historians that old legends are very unreliable in their details. The article deals primarily with unlikelihoods, and it proposes a step-wise sequence of events that led to the creation of the legend in the 1800s.
