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History of the Territory of Wisconsin, from 1836 to 1848
History of the Territory of Wisconsin from 1836 to 1848 Author:Moses McCure Strong Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JONATHAN CARVER'S EXPLORATIONS. 47 the British authorities had the superintendency of the Indians of the Green Bay Department. After the close of the Revoluti... more »onary war the same superintendency appears to have continued indefinitely. He also had command of the militia composed of the simple hearted people of the settlement, by whom he was most affectionately reverenced and honored. He spent the remainder of his days at Green Bay, receiving an annuity from the British government of eight hundred dollars, as half pay for his services during the American Revolution, and died in January, 1800, at the age of seventy- five years, and was buried beside his father in the cemetery at Green Bay. Pierre Grignon, Sen., by his marriage with Domitelle De Langlade, had seven sons and two daughters. One of the sons was Augustin Grignon, born June 27,1780, from whose " Recollections," noted down from his lips in 1857 by Mr. Draper, secretary of the State Historical Society, most of the foregoing statements in relation to the Langlade family, have been literally transcribed. CHAPTER IV. Jonathan Carver's Explorations A new era in the history of the West commenced with the year 1T63. By the treaty of Paris made in that year, all the claims of the French to the country watered by the Ohio and the Mississippi, and all the French possessions, were ceded to Great Britain. By a secret treaty however, made on the same day the definitive articles of the treaty of Paris had been signed (November 3,1762), France ceded to Spain all Louisiana west of the Mississippi and the island of Orleans. So that Great Britain, when the treaty was concluded, February 10,1703, acquired the country east of the Mississippi, which river was to remain equally free to the subjects of Great Britain and France. Soon...« less