Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin

              1728-46] Grignon's Recollections 201
Bay, somewhere between 1744 and 1746; and as the engage¬ ment with the Sauks may not have occurred quite so late as 1746, the year in which the Sauks and their allies;, the Foxes, were finally driven from the Fox Eiver Valley, I have con- eluded the settlement was made, as already stated, about 1745. With the De Langlades, probably, came but a few settlers, beyond their own family. M. Souligny, the son-in-law of Sieur De Langlade, with his wife; and either then or soon after they were joined by Mons. Oarron, who had been many years engaged in the Indian trade, and had fully twenty years before been among the Menomjonees^ and he continued to re¬ side at the Bay the remainder of his days. If others then camio, their names are not now known; so probably not noiore than eight persons formed the little colony who commenced the pc'raxanent settlement of Wisconsin. That their recep^- tion by '^the Indians inhabiting Green Bay was pleasant, was distinctly told me by my grandfather; but the band of T'e-pak-e-ne-nee, or The Night-Man, living about two miles up Menomonee river, at their village of Min-ne-kau- nee, or Pleasant Tbwn, where Marinette or Menomonee City is now located, used to come down, and miake their threats that they would take by force Indian goods from Augustin De Langlade's store, or the Gove2rnment stores in charge of Charles De Langlade, calculating to intimidate, in order to get credit for goods, or have some given to them; but Charles De Langlade would pleasantly say to them, ^Well, my friends, if you have come here to fight, we can cross to the prairie on the other side of the river, and have a little fun.'^ But they knew too well his reputation as a sol¬ dier even from his boyhood, and declined his invitation, and he had no more difficulty with them. But some time afterwards, Te-gak-ef-ne-nee got in to ai quarrel with a trader named St. Germain, at the nnouth of the Menomonee river, and fatally stabbed himw    While yet a youth, I reme^miber seeing Te-pak-