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grigtfon's recollections 255 can remember and they must have been common in the settlement for many years before my day the earliest horses were brought from detroit of the small hardy canadian breed there were no sheep till shortly after my father erect ed his new house about 1790 when he purchased seven head at mackinaw and brought them home in a barge ; and by carefully watching them but few were lost by wolves and they soon increased till they became numerous the early commerce of the country deserves a passing no tice the chief articles of export were of course furs and peltries which served as the chief medium of exchange for the goods brought into the country there was some con siderable quantity of deer's tallow saved by the indians and sold to the traders taken to mackinaw and some maple sugar i remember that one year about 1806 between mr franks and myself we sent to mackinaw one hundred and twenty kegs of deer's tallow weighing about 10,000 pounds but as there was much sugar manufactured around macki naw not much was sent there to market ; the indians made large quantities as far back as i can remember to the traders passing into the indian country cattle for beef were sold sugar and tallow potatoes and other vegetables but the green bay settlement furnished no surplus of flour or corn though the indians had corn to barter with the traders at my earliest recollection there were white potatoes raised at the bay in large quantities and the fields and gardens fur nished peas beans pumpkins melons cucumbers beets car rots turnips ruta bagas onions and lettuce in abundance there was no buckwheat produced till quite recently of fruit trees i well remember in my earliest boyhood that madame amable roy had the only apple tree in the settle * from twenty five to thirty years ago when i resided at lockport in western new york i well remember that large quantities of stirred maple sugar were brought into the country made by the indians in the mackinaw region and put up in small bark boxes containing from one to several pounds each l 0 d
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| Language | English |
| Pagination | iv, 547 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Page | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume III (1857) |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | XML |
| Source Creation Date | 1857 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvIII0000 |
| Description | The third annual report and collections of the State Historical Society, of Wisconsin, for the year 1856 includes the following articles: Eulogies on J.G. Percival; Notices of William A. White; Early Jesuit missionaries in the north-west, by Judge Law; Indian tribes of Wisconsin, by John Gilmary Shea; The Cass manuscripts, translated by Charles Whittlesey; Antiquities of Crawford County, by Alfred Brumson; Antiquities of Wisconsin, by Wm. Barry; Seventy-two years recollections of Wisconsin, by Augustin Grignon; Reminiscences of the north-west, by B.F.H. Witherell; The Chippewas of Lake Superior, by Richard E. Morse; Early history of Kenosha, by M. Frank; First settlement of Kenosha, by Wallace Mygatt; Early history of Green County, by J.W. Stewart; Sketch of Whitewater, by J.A. Leonard; The upper Wisconsin country, by A.G. Ellis; Sketch of Prescott and Pierce County, by Oliver Gibbs, Jr., and C.E. Young; Hudson and its tributary region, by T. Dwight Hall; New London and surrounding country, by A.J. Lawson; Resources of north-eastern Wisconsin, by E.B. Quiner; Wisconsin and its internal navigation; Lemonwier River, by D. McBride; Baraboo Valley, a dairy region; Lieut. Gov. Cruzat's message to the Sauks and Foxes; Public libraries in Wisconsin. |
| Article Title | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume III (1857) |
| Volume | Vol. 03 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 3 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Description
| Language | English |
| Page | 255 |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | JP2 |
| Source Creation Date | 1857 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvIII0269 |
| Author | Grignon, Augustin, b. 1780 |
| Page Type | Article |
| Volume | Vol. 03 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 3 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| Full Text | grigtfon's recollections 255 can remember and they must have been common in the settlement for many years before my day the earliest horses were brought from detroit of the small hardy canadian breed there were no sheep till shortly after my father erect ed his new house about 1790 when he purchased seven head at mackinaw and brought them home in a barge ; and by carefully watching them but few were lost by wolves and they soon increased till they became numerous the early commerce of the country deserves a passing no tice the chief articles of export were of course furs and peltries which served as the chief medium of exchange for the goods brought into the country there was some con siderable quantity of deer's tallow saved by the indians and sold to the traders taken to mackinaw and some maple sugar i remember that one year about 1806 between mr franks and myself we sent to mackinaw one hundred and twenty kegs of deer's tallow weighing about 10,000 pounds but as there was much sugar manufactured around macki naw not much was sent there to market ; the indians made large quantities as far back as i can remember to the traders passing into the indian country cattle for beef were sold sugar and tallow potatoes and other vegetables but the green bay settlement furnished no surplus of flour or corn though the indians had corn to barter with the traders at my earliest recollection there were white potatoes raised at the bay in large quantities and the fields and gardens fur nished peas beans pumpkins melons cucumbers beets car rots turnips ruta bagas onions and lettuce in abundance there was no buckwheat produced till quite recently of fruit trees i well remember in my earliest boyhood that madame amable roy had the only apple tree in the settle * from twenty five to thirty years ago when i resided at lockport in western new york i well remember that large quantities of stirred maple sugar were brought into the country made by the indians in the mackinaw region and put up in small bark boxes containing from one to several pounds each l 0 d |