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The Explorers. Nicolas Perrot 1665-1689. Nicolas Perrot was a great explorer. Although he gave four governors of New France ample proof of his talents as a negotiator and diplomat, they did not hesitate to send him back to his lands, and to a poverty due in part to his own lack of self-interest.
Adventures of Nicolas Perrot, 1665-1670: Author: La Potherie, Claude Charles Le Roy de, 1668-1738: Contributor: Kellogg, Louise Phelps, d. 1942 (editor and introduction) Document Source: Kellogg, Louise P. (editor). Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917). Pages 69-92. Series
Of the four<br>small volumes, the second and third appear to be almost<br>wholly reproductions of the lost journals of Nicolas Perrot,<br>and give much fuller descriptions of his relations to the West-<br>ern Indians and life among them than may be found in Per-<br>rot's own Memoire.
PERROT, NICOLAS, explorer, interpreter, fur-trader, commandant at Baie des Puants (Green Bay) and seigneur; b. c. 1643 in France, son of François Perrot, lieutenant responsible for justice in the barony of Darcey in the province of Burgundy, and of Marie Sivot; d. 13 Aug. 1717 at Bécancour and buried the next day in the parish church.
Explorer and fur trader, Nicolas Perrot, came to Wisconsin in the 17th century and claimed much of the region for France. Living among various Indian tribes near present-day Green Bay, Perrot built a string of posts along the Mississippi River and effectively helped to curb the power of the Iroquois against the French.
Many plaques and sites commemorate the life and travels of Nicolas Perrot. For a complete list, visit the Association of Descendants of Nicolas Perrot website.
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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.
