Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin

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head of an extensive company of traders, was doubtless the same person who, as a trader^ had been so severely taxed in the way of tribute by the Foxes, and whom he had so oomr pletely humbled and driven from the country. ITow that the field was clear, and he had established a high reputation among the savages for great bravery and enterprise, how natural he should vigorously prosecute his plans of commerce, as we see he was doing in 1763, seventeen years after the final expulsion of the Sauks and Foxes from Wisconsin. My old friend, Mr. Fily, many years ago told me that he had become acquainted with the wife of the celebrated chief Ke-o-kuk and her mother, and that the latter was the daughter, by a Sauk mother, of the same Capt. Morand who had led the early expeditions against the Foxes. But within the next twenty years after 1763, he must have paid the debt of nature, or retired fro'm; the Indian trade, or I should have seen or known something more of him.
Capt. Morand's severe chastisement of the Foxes, had the effect to keep the Wisconsin tribes on friendly terms with the whites for many years. Meanwhile the little settlement at Green Bay appears to have increased very slowly, and the little garrison to have been withdrawn at soniye period after the ter¬ mination of the Sauk and Fox war, and prior to the commence- . ment of the old French and Indian war of 1754. Augustin De Langlade continued in the Indian trade, and Charles De Langlade as Indian agent^ and no event of importance occurred to them, or their little settlement, at this period.
We do not discover that the progress or result of that long, contest, known as the French and Indian war, had any spe¬ cial influence for weal or woe upon the Green Bay settlement, as it was too' remote to feel any sensible effects from the oper¬ ations of the comibatants. But it opened a new field for the enterprising spirit of Charles De Langlade. At the break¬ ing out of this war, he was but thirty years of age, in the 15