Note 66 — Front matter
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Le Sueur was commandant at Chequamegon for a considerable time, beginning in 1693. During that year he erected two forts, one near the present site of Red Wing, Minnesota, and one on Madeline Island, believing this necessary in order to keep open the Bois Brulé and St. Croix trading route. See Wis. Hist. Coll., Vol. XVI, page 173. For a sketch of Chagaouamegong (now corruptly written Chequamegon), see the excellent little volume by Rev. Chrysostom Verwyst, O. S. F., entitled Missionary Labors of Fathers Marquette, Menard, and Allouez in the Lake Superior Region, 1886, pp. 181-182, also Wis. Hist. Coll., Vol. I, which gives the Indian nomenclature, showing the early form, Chegoiwegon.