Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers, 1712-1884.

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Grignon, Augustin, 1780-1860. Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers, 1712-1884.

Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers, 1712-1884.

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Primarily the business, personal, and official correspondence of three families, early residents of Green Bay, Wis., whose members traded individually or in groups or served as agents of fur trading companies on the shore of Lake Michigan and as far as the Dakotas and Missouri. Most of the letters are in French; about two-thirds of them are for the years 1820-1840. Several series of letters not properly a part of the Grignon, Lawe, or Porlier papers are filed in the collection: a group of letters, 1807-1818, to Charles Reaume dealing with his duties as justice of the peace; several letters addressed to George Boyd and some drafts of his own letters; a collection of family letters of Ebenezer Childs, including several written by him from the territorial legislature at the end of the thirties; and a number addressed to Andrew J. Vieau of Milwaukee and Two Rivers, 1836-1846, mainly from his father-in-law, John Lawe, concerning the trade and the operation of a saw and grist mill. Largely after 1840, there are several letters from pioneer settlers in Fond du Lac, Oconto, Oshkosh, Poygan Lake, Peshtigo Mills, and elsewhere in Wisconsin. There are about 175 letters from 1712 to the end of the War of 1812, divided about equally among those of members of the three families--Jacob Franks and his nephew and successor in the trade, John Lawe; Augustin, Louis, and Pierre Grignon; and Jacques Porlier; a few concerning the Robert Dickson Company; a number from Montreal outfitters; and a few bearing directly on the war.

6.4 c.f. (16 archives boxes) ; 13 reels of microfilm (35 mm.) ; unprocessed additions of 193 photographs.

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University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Cofrin Library