HISTORY OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY.

Albert G. Ellis said he had gone to live in 1830. Hon. Morgan L.
Martin, passing that place in 1828, notices a large Menominee
village, in which the women and children were shy and kept
out of view; but does not mention any trading posts. By the
treaty of the Cedars in 1836 he was awarded $10,000 for goods
sold the Indians.
Dr. Lyman C. Draper visited him in 1859, and obtained from
him a rich fund of frontier information, which is published as
"Grignon's Recollections." He records that he was at seventy-
seven "robust and healthy," due to a life in the wilderness,
also "intelligent and well read," and the last of the grandchil-
dren of Captain Charles de Langlade. He was then residing with
his son-in-law, Louis B. Porlier, son of Judge James Porlier, at
Butte des Morts village on the fractional lot west of and adjoin-
ing the site of the old trading post on the banks of Big Butte des
Morts lake. At this place in the house still standing Captain
Grignon died the following year and was buried beside his wife
in the cornfield about two hundred feet east of the dwelling.
At first some stones and rose bushes marked the spot, but after
the Porliers moved away about 1900, the house and farm was
leased and the graves plowed over. The children of Captain
Augustin Grignon were (1) Margaret, who married Ebenezer
Childs; (2) Charles A., born in Kaukauna June 15, 1808, and
married Mary E. Mead; (3) Sophia, who married Louis B. Por-
lier, of Butte des Morts; (4) Louis; (5) Alexander; and (6) Paul.
Mr. Robert Grignon, a nephew of Captain Augustin Grignon,
came to Butte des Morts with the establishment of Captain Grig-
non and Judge Porlier in 1818, and at later dates whenever the
post was maintained there, which may have been each season.
He relinquished his duties as agent and clerk of the post to Mr.
James Knaggs, and went to Algoma. Mr. James Knaggs acted
in the capacity of clerk and agent, maintaining a ferry until
about 1832, when he also went to Algoma. He was succeeded by
Mr. Louis B. Porlier, who resided there all his life, and during
many years maintained a trading post, at least as late as 1880,
and he was one of the three who composed the first board of
supervisors of the county. He purchased the most westerly land
in the town of Oshkosh, adjoining the land on the east, on which
the old trading post stood, and built thereon a two-story frame
farmhouse, which still stands there. He is said to have been
"an intelligent gentleman," and "a good business man."As
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