Peter Bisaillon
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Peter Bisaillon, was a New France fur trader and interpreter who spent most of his career in Pennsylvania engaged in trade with Native American communities. Bisaillon and other coureurs des bois domin
Pennsylvania state historical marker in Coatesville
Martin Chartier
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Martin Chartier was a French-Canadian explorer and trader, carpenter and glove maker. He lived much of his life amongst the Shawnee Native Americans in what is now the United States.
Peter Bisaillon
…work for the Pennsylvania Company and its manager Robert Quary. When a band of Shawnees came into Pennsylvania in 1694, Bisaillon met his old friend Martin Chartier, who had been on La Salle's 1679 expedition, but had mutinied and fled. He had married a Shawnee woman and assimilated into her band. By the late 1690s…
Historical marker, erected in 1925, in Washington Boro, Pennsylvania, commemorating the life of Martin Chartier
Painting by Douglas Volk, of Father Louis Hennepin discovering Saint Anthony Falls.
Woodcut of the Griffon
Fort Crèvecoeur