[66] Le Sueur was commandant at Chequamegon for a considerable time, beginning in 1693. During that year he erected two forts, one near the present site of Red Wing, Minnesota, and one on Madeline Island, believing this necessary in order to keep open the Bois Brulé and St. Croix trading route. See Wis. Hist. Coll., Vol. XVI, page 173. For a sketch of Chagaouamegong (now corruptly written Chequamegon), see the excellent little volume by Rev. Chrysostom Verwyst, O. S. F., entitled Missionary Labors of Fathers Marquette, Menard, and Allouez in the Lake Superior Region, 1886, pp. 181-182, also Wis. Hist. Coll., Vol. I, which gives the Indian nomenclature, showing the early form, Chegoiwegon.
[67] A mistake taken bodily from Neill’s History of Minnesota, first edition, which was corrected in a later edition to “Fort Perrot on the west side of the Mississippi, on a prairie, just below the expansion of the stream known as Lake Pepin.”
[68] Nicolas Perrot, one of the most prominent of the early voyageurs and very well acquainted with the northwestern tribes, gained their confidence and good-will from the beginning. He was born in 1644 and employed by the Jesuits from 1660-65, later connecting himself with the Ottawa fur-trade. He is probably better known, however, as an explorer, and in 1685 was employed by the government of Canada as commandant in the northwest. During his last years he composed his Memoirs which remained in manuscript until 1864, at which time they were published with copious notes by Tailhan. Perrot died August 13, 1717. See Stickney, Parkman Club Papers, Milwaukee, 1896.
[69] Pierre de Fevre de La Barre, successor of Frontenac, as governor of Canada, and in turn followed by Denonville. An ignorant and by no means worthy occupant of the position.
[70] A small, square-ended barge equipped with both oars and sail.
[71] Nineteen men. La Harpe’s Narrative. Penicaud.
[72] Ibid. Gives the date as 29th.
[73] Gabriel Marest, S. J., who came to Canada in 1694 and died at the Kaskaskia Mission, September 15, 1714. Practically his whole life was spent among the Kaskaskia Indians of Illinois, once the leading tribe of the Illinois Confederacy, and he taught among them continually.
[74] “This does not accord with the general tradition that the Dakota were always enemies of the Sioux, nevertheless the name Nadoessi Mascouteins seems to have been applied to the Iowa by the earlier missionaries because of their relations for a time with the Sioux.” Cyrus Thomas, Bull. 30, B. A. E., 1907.
[75] This statement is wholly without foundation. Iberville was the third son of a burgher of Dieppe one Charles Le Moyne, father of fourteen children, who migrated from his native country to Canada in 1640, at which place he joined the Jesuits. Sieur d’ Bienville together with his brother were leaders in that conflict with the English in the Hudson Bay region (see Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, Vol. IV), and it is not exaggeration to term Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville, as one of the most noted Canadian naval officers of his time. His death occurred from yellow fever, July 9, 1706, at Havana. Cf. The First Great Canadian. By Charles B. Reed, Chic., 1910; also Wis. Hist. Coll., Vol. XVI. Certain writers affirm the relations between Sauvole and the others here mentioned, notably Gayarre, in his History of Louisiana, Vol. I, page 58. Later authorities, however, as Hamilton, Colonial Mobile, page 32, take opposite views. See [note 51] for a sketch of Le Sueur.