Term: Perrot, Nicolas 1644 - 1717
explorer, fur trader, b. France. He migrated to New France (Canada) at an early age, and there entered the service of Jesuit missionaries, traveling with
Term: Perrot, Nicolas 1644 - 1717
explorer, fur trader, b. France. He migrated to New France (Canada) at an early age, and there entered the service of Jesuit missionaries, traveling with the priests, learning Indian languages, and becoming acquainted with wilderness life. He later spent two years in Montreal. In 1667 Perrot and a partner signed a contract for a trading voyage to the Ottawa country, and while on this trip became the first white traders to visit the Algonquin tribes of Wisconsin. Working to break the trade monopoly of the Ottawas over the western tribes, Perrot visited the Potawatomi in 1668,