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One of the leading figures during the French regime in Wisconsin and the West, Perrot frequently organized Indian allies in campaigns against the Iroquois. In 1685 he was made commandant of the West, and probably in the same year built Fort St. Nicolas at the mouth of the Wisconsin River.
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Nicolas Perrot was born around 1644. He was the son of François Perrot and Marie Sirot. He died on 13 Aug 1717 and was buried on the 14th in Bécancour, being given the age of 74 on the record. Perrot came to New France around 1660 with the Jesuits, and traveled with them to the Western Great Lakes, reaching present day Wisconsin in 1665. He earned ...
Nicolas Perrot Il nait vers 1644 à Darcey (Côte-d'Or) 21226, fils de François PERROT et Marie Sirot, son père est procureur d'office à Darcey.Son frère Jean est baptisé à Darcey le 2 avril 1651. 5 frères et une soeur lui sont connus. Nicolas Perrot fait son apparition dans les registres de la colonie en 1660, il est alors donné des Jésuites Il est ...
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1. PERRAULT / PERROT, Nicolas 243236 2. Date de naissance: Vers 1644 3. Lieu d'origine: Darcey (Côte-d'Or) 21226 4. Parents: François PERROT et Marie Sirot 5. Métier du père: Procureur d'office à Darcey 6. Première mention au pays: 1660 7. Occupation à l'arrivée: Donné aux Jésuites 8. Date de mariage: 11-11-1671 9. Lieu du mariage: Cap-de-la-Madeleine (cm Guillaume Larue) 10. Conjointe: Madeleine Raclos 11. Décès ou inhumation: Bécancour, 13-08-1717 12. Remarques: Capitaine de milice, explora...
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Meanwhile, as he was going to all sorts of places, his wife was left to run the family farm and raise their children by herself for many years, and also to deal with various litigation against him. She died in 1724, in the last 4 years of her life she had fallen into dementia. One wonders why. See her profile. Entretemps, pendant qu'il allait à toutes sortes d'endroits, son épouse était laissée seule à gérer leur ferme et élever leurs enfants pendant plusieurs années, et aussi gérer des litig...
Thanks to Robert Davidsonfor starting this profile.Thanks to Yvette Bergeronfor starting this profile.- Male
- August 13, 1717
- Madeleine Raclos
Nicolas Perrot died on August 13, 1717 in Bécancour. He had spent much time in writing a summary of his experiences for the Intendant Michel Bégon. The final lines of his memoirs illustrate the reality of his destitution: “Lack of paper prevents me from going on at greater length, as I would have every right to do so, if I were not deprived ...
When Nicolas Perrot was born about 1644, in Darcey, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France, his father, François Perrot, was 29 and his mother, Marie Sirot, was 26. He married Madeleine Raclos Raclot on 11 November 1671, in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France.
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Nicolas Perrot (c. 1644 –1717), a French explorer, fur trader, and diplomat, was one of the first European men to travel in the Upper Mississippi Valley, in what is now Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Perrot, Nicolas, 1644?-1717. Publication date. 1968. Topics. Indians of North America -- Social life and customs. Publisher. [East Ardsley, Yorks.] : S.R. Publishers. Collection. trent_university; internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. French. Item Size. 1048477447. viii, 341, xxxix p. ; 22 cm. --
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Nicolas Perrot was a French fur trader, North American colonial official, and explorer. Perrot immigrated to New France (Canada) as a youth, and his services there under the Jesuits and Sulpicians enabled him to learn Indian languages and native cultures. He entered the fur trade about 1663,
